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...recent years the two women squabbled over custody of the girl. Last year Marilyn Beers took her back for some time after accusing Inghilleri's husband Sal, 39, of sexually molesting the child. With his trial pending, Sal Inghilleri says the allegation is a ploy to prevent his now estranged wife from gaining custody. (See the top 10 famous disappearances...
Baker should also be criticized for the way he brought about the current Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. This seemingly impossible task was accomplished not through some magical force in Baker's personality. He simply won Arab confidence by repeatedly utilizing the cheap ploy of wringing concessions from one party (Israel) while asking none of any substance from the other...
...earlier. These scenes show volatile, yet sensitive, characters who have outlived their image of themselves. Years of family life have dulled them to each's hangups and worries about the rest of the group's behavior. For example, one brother's "worldly" advice turns out to be a jealous ploy to destroy his sibling with alcohol and apathy...
...Committee Against Unfair Taxation. The group appeals for money to be spent not on smoking prevention programs, but on issues such as AIDS, homelessness and poverty. In fact, the committee is entirely financed by tobacco industry executives. Their sudden concern for social problems in Massachusetts is just a ploy to divert attention from the fatal dangers of smoking...
...justification. To point to a leader who symbolizes the Catholic Church and the values which it embodies and brand him the culprit of unfortunate social ills makes no sense. Insulting a religious group to make a political statement shows poor taste and amounts to little more than a cheap ploy for attention on Sinead's part. Sinead's Rolling Stone photo shows her in a shirt which reads "Recovering Catholic." Maybe Catholicism did not work for Sinead. But she has no excuse to defile the religion in such an offensive manner...