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This is not a ploy to sell more blood-pressure medication. The new guidelines make clear that prehypertension is best treated with exercise, weight loss and a more balanced diet. Several studies have proved that the so-called DASH diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables and modest quantities of nuts, reliably lowers blood pressure in all ethnic groups. Best of all, there are no side effects...
...clothing” is a puerile epithet whose sloppiness would make even the most avid of Bush’s spin-doctors cringe. Bush went to the U.N. as a token gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights as well as his vocal disregard for the inspectors’ reports...
University officials might see the recent call by Cambridge city councillors for a reassessment of the city’s losses due to Harvard’s tax exemptions as just an annoying political ploy. After all, nobody can force the University to renegotiate the thirteen-year-old payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement that was designed to govern the University’s voluntary payments to Cambridge until the year...
...Gerard begins to do sit-ups. This is an obvious ploy for a more prominent role in the story. Several of the participants, led by Arthur—whose mythical eating prowess seems, at least up to this point, to be nothing more than mythical—protest Gerard’s showmanship...
...miles beyond the snowy mountains that host their bunkers, aired a vehement denunciation of the Kurdish group's contact with the government. On the PUK's frontline, troops gathered around radios and listened to the diatribe accusing Komal of being infidels. The soldiers dismissed it as a ploy - a few hours later Ansar vehicles and gunmen had moved into Komal's area of control to improve their position for the nightly attack...