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...year - a tab that doesn't even include the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now he's going public with the 2010 budget proposal he drafted in secret before formally sending it to the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. It's a ploy designed to build momentum for Gates' plan before it can be sabotaged by defense contractors and lawmakers (often from districts that benefit from building particular big-ticket items), with behind-the-scenes help from the military...
...majority of his boyfriends are formerly straight men—he appears only slightly nonplussed by this fact. Peter’s social advances and friendship with Sydney are often mistaken for homosexuality as well. Whether this is a reflection of common stigmas regarding male friendship or a cheap ploy to garner extra laughs, it quickly becomes redundant. Good intentions notwithstanding, Sydney ultimately causes a rift in Peter and Zooey’s relationship. Still, even faced with this downturn, Hamburg never drops the comedic ball. The movie’s implicit messages are buoyed by brisk, funny maxims...
...well Apple's PR photo hides that fact?) Users wanting to use their own existing headphones will have to purchase a special adapter cable. If Apple didn't have such a vindictive history against buttons, it would be easy to write off the new "buttonless" Shuffle as a marketing ploy...
...respond. We must be reasonable, however, in our expectations. There will always be sociopaths and oddballs in any society or era. We cannot hope to make every single person happy or non-violent. Exaggerating the link between video games and teen violence in this case smacks more of political ploy than effective measure. Policymakers who push for new bans on violent video games help placate the doubts their constituents feel while demonstrating their own supposedly proactive response to crisis. Action without reason, however, is not enough to prevent such shootings in the future and only acts a psychologically placating solution...
...evokes the illogic used during the 2008 presidential election by a cavalcade of left-wing commentators, including Slate’s John Dickerson, The Kansas City Star’s Lewis Diuguid, and author David Shipler. These pundits claimed that nearly every criticism aimed at Obama was a Machiavellian ploy, using subtle wordplay to remind white voters of his blackness—even if this criticism did not reference race...