The muddled income-tax system, you see, and this week's garbled changes to it, are a subterfuge: not so much prudence for a purpose as complexity for the cause, ho ho.

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Now it's worth mentioning from the outset that Samsung plays a good game of subterfuge.

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Tallinn does not feel like a place gripped by subterfuge.

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So in 1712, Newton, by now president of the Royal Society, together with the indefatigable Halley, again obtained the data by subterfuge, and published a pirated edition of a new star catalogue.

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An Indiana woman in the middle of a messy divorce decided to resort to social media subterfuge to gather evidence against her soon-to-be ex-husband, reports the Smoking Gun.

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In fact, using counterfeit Hungarian passports and other bits of subterfuge, they opened 15 accounts, each under a different name.

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That said, the patent does show that the folks in Waterloo would like to keep a love of keyboards alive in the tablet era, even if it requires some subterfuge.

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The author of the blockbuster time management book series -- which a dvocates personal outsourcing as part of his formula for earning more in less time -- said subterfuge and allowing someone unauthorized access to the company computers is not the way forward.

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