Listing in Shanghai, for its part, could be a smart marketing ploy for a brand eager to raise its profile in a big consumer market.
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It will still be a popular ploy for politicians to attack the short-term trading mentality and bonus culture that pervades investment banking.
It is true that many in the EU assume the Polish objection, on the environmental grounds, is a cynical ploy, a shield for the true political objection and wariness towards their old masters, the Russians.
It was a high-risk strategy, but a ploy that has worked well for Liverpool as they chase a trophy treble in a mammoth season.
Sure, that 250GB drive adds some value to your purchase, but it ends up feeling more like a ploy to charge more for the same old console, but not made as well, with a slightly larger HDD.
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When the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced in June that this year there would be ten Best Picture nominees instead of five, many assumed it was a ploy to gain more viewers for the ailing telecast in March.
It was only meant to be a clever marketing ploy, but now requests for the cart are pouring in.
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Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin said the strategy is a ploy to escape responsibility and civil penalties for the money fund's collapse if the Bents lose a jury verdict.
Shoppers can use an iPhone Amazon price check app to read product reviews of products they focus their smart phones on in stores, but also to see if the same item can be purchased through Amazon for less money, a ploy the online retailer is using hoping to activate the economy-driven value nerve currently vibrating through much of the marketplace.
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Prosecutors criticized defense attorneys for publicizing the offer, calling it a ploy meant to draw the public and the judge into what should be private plea negotiations.
But Joe Epps, the forensic accountant who unraveled Marin's personal finances for investigators, told CNN it was all a ploy.
Mr Baron gathered 100 signatures from Tory backbenchers for a letter to the prime minister suggesting this ploy, which he thinks would flush out the other parties on the referendum issue, and reassure an electorate which has become cynical about promised referendums.
Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
Or is it merely a deflection, a cynical ploy designed to relieve the rising tide of popular and legislative demands for such action?
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Critics said Redlener's call for law enforcement officials to immediately remove Elian is a public relations ploy by the government.
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The others all chose to save the 'medium' tyres until the final stint, and McLaren in particular proved that - for the overall race strategy - it worked out to be a better ploy.
It is reluctant to dole out more, partly because of criticism that it has been too kind to Asia's crisis-hit economies, partly as a ploy to force more serious promises of reform out of the Russians as a condition for help.
The call for a ban, proposed by Monaco, was put to an immediate vote using a procedural ploy and rejected with 68 votes against, 20 in favour and 30 abstentions.
Meanwhile--perhaps preparing for a rash of bankruptcies--the IRS last month issued a final rule squelching another ploy that Wall Street tax consultant Robert Willens says had been widely used by those in the know: "abandoning" securities and claiming an ordinary loss, deductible against ordinary income.
Another ploy is to burden a subsidiary with losses and then get it to swap some of its consequently undervalued shares for those in a holding company owned by managers or their associates.
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