She is now wondering whether debt-crazed governments are peddling a pig in a poke, and using the growing panic about pensions to do so.

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Call it the pig-in-a-poke stratagem.

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And John Holum, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said the Senate should put off any discussion of the treaty's costs until after ratification--a classic sales pitch for a pig in a poke.

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