Word: stratagem
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...movement to oust the ex-general began in early October. By late November, strikes and demonstrations had reached such fury that Ershad imposed a state of emergency, a stratagem he had used twice before since his seizure of power...
...Nobel laureate told the parliamentary session, adding, "We must give back to the people their natural sense of being their own masters. Only a normal economy, a market, can do that." But the trouble, according to the radicals, was that his plan did not go far enough. When his stratagem was made public three days before the official presentation, thunderings of outrage rolled in from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union's largest republic, which intends to begin its own 500-day crash conversion to a free market on Nov. 1. Calling the Gorbachev plan "deliberate deception" in its finances...
...that is what is happening, beggaring all notions of propriety and common sense. The reason: unbridled, boundless greed. The owners show all the symptoms of terminal cupidity. During the past five years, they have used every stratagem -- including illegal collusion to restrict the movement of free agents -- to keep their hired help from gaining more of baseball's skyrocketing revenues. They have cried poverty but refused to let the players take a gander at the books...
...surest way to persuade a movie or TV star to appear onstage for minimal pay is to offer a juicy part in Shakespeare: the prestige seems to be all but irresistible. That stratagem has worked time and again for producer Joseph Papp for the 33 summers that he has staged free shows in New York City's Central Park. Rarely if ever has it reaped him a richer harvest of celebrities than in the Twelfth Night that opened this week...
...then Hollywood is the Big Nipple." He meant that American movies have nurtured filmmakers worldwide, even those who view it with reservations. The director always had a Hollywood-size appetite for the epic, with Gone With the Wind as the main course. His tidiest, loveliest film, The Spider's Stratagem (1970), is set in an Italian town called Tara; his most ambitious work, 1900 (1976), is a folk epic spanning 70 years of Italian history -- a Gone With the Wind gone red. Red ink too: the film, cut from 5 1/2 to 4 hours, sank quickly. It took The Last...