A cynic might wonder if the No. 1, the $50,000 mattress they were touting, was a marketing ploy, a question we put to Roger Ericson, the company's London-based creative director.
Another ploy: answering the question with a question, "stymies further questioning, or throws all but the most advanced interrogators off-track".
Does the ploy work?This question is the stuff of late-night bar discussions among physics students.
He has always said he will play in England for his entire footballing life and his seeming willingness to leave Old Trafford – which must be tempered by the possibility that this development is part of a negotiating ploy – raises the question of which other clubs he would leave for.
The ploy raises fresh questions of conflict of interest, as Trump defiantly hangs onto his sprawling business interests while in office.
Mr Graham called the Democratic shift to immigration reform a "cynical political ploy".Question: How do you distinguish between a "political ploy" and "responding to constituents' demands"?
Failing to distinguish these supposed practices — including the hoary sex-in-the-ice-cubes ploy — from the crucial question of whether they actually work, Mr. Warrick blithely implicates them in everything from eating disorders to the war on terror.
Mr. Gulotta called it "a political ploy and charade," and questioned the wisdom of many of the layoffs.
"That's a very good question" is a ploy that media coaches teach interview subjects to use; I imagine a number of people have simply picked up the phrase for their own use, through the very repetition that has Frank riled.
Around the world, viewers asked a more fundamental question: What is a ploy, anyway?
And the Democrats' willingness to take on one of their own powerful vested interest shows that they are competing hard for Mr McCain's reform mantle.The interesting question is whether this electoral ploy will have longer-term consequences.
