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Recently Gaiam released her first solo video for the company, "Yoga for Weight Loss," a title she dismissed as a sales ploy about which she had no input.

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Beyond that, the American deployment here seems little more than a propaganda ploy, saying less about terrorism than about politics in Manila and Washington.

Call it the the But-Enough-About-You Ploy, or simply the Strauss Strategem: Thinner, thinner!

But in fairness to the minister it is also possible to view his statement as a political ploy to bring about a sensible compromise.

Briefly, total ploy A RNA (about 6 μg) was enriched by Oligo dT) magnetic beads and Oligo dT) used as the primer to synthesize the first and second-strand cDNA.

Many Taiwanese, including the pro-independence opposition party, fear that the proposed accord is really a ploy by China to bring about unification by stealth.

And more still: the Leveson inquiry is a David Cameron PR ploy to deflect criticism about the hacking scandal from him, and, too, from the Murdoch family and organization.

At least there is some entertainment value in a $177 bagel, and even in a politician whose idea of a sympathy ploy is to talk about his sex life or nonsex life to anyone with a microphone.

"I felt jelly beans was probably a suitable bribe," says Hugo, the wedding photographer, about his ploy to get the bridesmaids and pageboys into line for the official pictures.

Political gain, not economic sense or sound policy, has always been at the core of Republican strategy on the debt-ceiling talks — a cynical ploy to appear serious about cutting spending while actually holding hostage the nation's strong credit rating.

Advertisements on Iraq have started to crop up in local races and Republicans are circulating Democratic votes in the resolution before the 1991 Gulf war (most voted against).This is a risky ploy because domestic debates about war have not usually been partisan affairs: politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge.

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