There were a few obvious money-making ploys: Michael Bay's "Armageddon," was issued in a director-approved, two-disc set that aficionados (this one included) bought to hear Mr. Bay and the producer Jerry Bruckheimer justify the notoriously dreadful picture on the accompanying commentary.
Now Mr. Giuliani has made the picture worse with a pension ploy announced a few weeks ago.
Starved of software support and with only a few retailers on board, the ploy failed, and Sony's machine marched to victory.
So far, the ploy has generated a few promising leads, he says, but no actual job offers.
To the uninitiated, all this Nigella talk might seem like nothing more than a cheap ploy to get a few more dads to go to the pictures.
They tried the old distraction ploy on me a few times, and then used the "cheaper and lesser known" theme park second option card, as well as just plain told me straight up, we would not be going there because it was too expensive.
His stroll from the presidential palace a few blocks away was more than a ploy to rub shoulders with the masses or save on the presidential petrol bill.
After a few weeks though, they saw through the political ploy – the regional elections are only a few months away.
A few rude and skeptical questions are tossed in, a ploy to make the film seem more balanced.
Crooked flea-market venders would buy stolen goods from boosters, then put a few samples out on their tables — "as a marketing ploy," Rogers says.
And Clinton needs to have her allies back off silly ploys like allowing the Sanders forces only a few seats on key national convention committees.
