With genuine savings difficult, the government may try some accounting ruses to make spending look under control.

ECONOMIST: Public spending

Chaudhary is hopeful that in the rosier future that he envisages, such ruses may no longer be needed.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Nationwide, there were 260 oil-and-gas-related alleged ruses logged by the North American Securities Administrators Association between 2005 and 2007.

FORBES: Energy

Phishing scams are moving beyond the misspelled, far-fetched ruses that clog your in-box and beg for your bank codes.

FORBES: Future Phishing

He says he has testified in three cases that made it to trial, and written about the ruses in his paper.

FORBES: Energy

Certainly, they have been willing to use any means, from legal ruses to civil disobedience, in order to get their way.

ECONOMIST: All about a boy

The controversial tax reform itself epitomises the fiscal tricksiness with which, as chancellor, Mr Brown raised money through subtle but cumulatively burdensome tax ruses.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

But those ruses frequently alienated the base without adding new supporters.

ECONOMIST: The politics of diminished expectations

Both parties gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash.

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