Such ploys are equivalent to keeping our factories geared to war production in peacetime.
Other improbable-sounding ploys work because the courts have blessed some taxpayer-friendly interpretation of a complicated code.
These ploys manipulate arcane tax rules to create enormous tax losses and deductions with little economic basis.
It's also no coincidence that these ploys are proliferating at a time when the IRS is on the ropes.
North revealed his team had tried a variety of ploys before Gayle finally holed out to Shane Watson at point.
One of the most common marketing ploys of the credit card industry is to offer 0% interest on balance transfers.
Such ploys might help to distinguish brilliant candidates from the merely clever.
One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.
The rules also curtail the use of teaser rates and other ploys for making mortgages appear to be less costly than they really are.
Such ploys can make it hard to identify exactly who is behind a particular online assault, says Adam Vincent of Cyber Squared, another security firm.
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We do not want to sleepwalk into a cyber-Katrina, but neither do we want to hold our policy-making hostage to the rhetorical ploys of better-informed government contractors.
One of the perennial ploys in the continuing effort by scamsters to separate the unwary from their money is to impersonate someone rich, often as a relative.
These companies are fighting a growing trend by governments and non-profits that expect CSR to include real substantive steps, and not just marketing ploys and window dressing.
Both agree, however, that dealers are getting smarter with their sales ploys: for example, using loss-leader sales until users are hooked or offering three-for-the-price-of-two deals to increase usage.
If you dropped dead, you heirs got a big check (One of the most ingenious marketing ploys in history was to call it life insurance rather than death insurance).
The ploys range from borderline valid to downright criminal.
Indeed, the one certainty in the tumultuous world of modern telecoms is that, however successful the defensive ploys by incumbents may prove, they will provide little respite from the onslaught of competition.
But these administrative ploys have also created distortions.
Cash back sure beats throwing in a car, a boat or a cruise, some of the desperate ploys used during the height of the real estate bust by real estate developers and individual homeowners alike.
In early 2002, after the IRS offered shelter users a chance to voluntarily come forward and settle up, Nicholas paid the back taxes, interest and penalties he owed on the KPMG OPIS and TRACT ploys.
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The activists have tried other ploys, too.
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Rather, the current tenor towards LeBron is tied explicitly and exclusively to recently revealed deficiencies in his game as well as the negative public relations ploys he and the Miami Heat executed during his announced move from the Cavaliers to the Miami Heat.
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