Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
California's attorney general, whom we now call Gov. Jerry Brown, declined to investigate the bait-and-switch.
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As it happens, the poster child of this bait-and-switch may be former Senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott.
Unfortunately, the PRC's entry into the WTO could greatly facilitate this sort of bait-and-switch scheme.
The Loudoun County School Board is not the first to be subjected to the Gulen bait-and-switch.
There is, unfortunately, a recent precedent for this sort of German bait-and-switch at Czech expense.
This may sound like reasonable advice, but it's actually a bait-and-switch strategy and hardly unique to Fidelity.
The worst thing that can happen now is for the state of Wisconsin to employ its own bait-and-switch.
Also, before being bought by HSBC in 2003, Household had already come under fire for using bait-and-switch tactics on interest rates.
Which is small consolation because it means the 9-9-9 Plan would soon become a vicious bait-and-switch scam once enacted into law.
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As it happens, similar assurances about mosque complexes built elsewhere by other Shariah adherents have amounted to the old "bait-and-switch" scam.
Employers may also see through the Washington tax bait-and-switch, figuring that they'll pay for the temporary tax cut with higher taxes later.
In the hope that Senators will opt to be rubberstamps rather than real quality- control agents, Team Obama has offered a classic bait-and-switch.
Like the well-meaning patrons in a pointless line, the perpetual bombardment of bait-and-switch headlines and ads promising cures, shortcuts, and answers can be tempting.
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If, as his post-Vietnam record suggests, this amounts to a bait-and-switch trap for American voters, it is understandable that he would object to close scrutiny of the bait.
But in a classic bait-and-switch move, the GISAID board changed that policy after the database was up and running, and now they can sit on data as long as they want.
Bait-and-switch also occurs at car dealerships and rug stores.
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Of special interest is a bait-and-switch ruse where (mostly older) investors are told to liquidate safe, low-yielding investments to buy annuities, which carry steep commissions and expenses and lock investors in for years.
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As I blogged at the beginning of the process in September, that included sleazy mortgage brokers introduced by Lending Tree, who either pulled the bait-and-switch on rates or resisted disclosing what fees they would tack on.
The Brotherhood represents a classic totalitarian bait-and-switch.
Even if by some miracle a carbon tax starts out revenue neutral, this almost certainly would be the setup for a bait-and-switch in which future Congresses keep or increase the carbon tax and decrease or rescind cuts in other taxes.
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Soon, the video was being used online as a new target for the bait-and-switch Rickroll meme in which a user posts a link to something supposedly relevant or interesting but turns out to be a ridiculous or annoying video or image instead.
After five months in office and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, however, a stunning conclusion seems increasingly plausible: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name prominently featured has engaged in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Hitler duped Chamberlain over Czechoslovakia at Munich.
Easy enough to do with your marketing materials, your web site and even your blogs, but if all else looks great and you show up for an appointment looking as if you put little thought into your appearance, all your marketing efforts might appear to be a bait-and-switch to a would-be lucrative prospect.
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Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.
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In hindsight, her assurances and the guidance documents were the setup for a bait-and-fuel-switch.
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In short, any promise to deploy missile defenses at some point in the future that President Clinton might feel compelled to make in order to sell the CTBT is likely to prove just another cynical bait-and switch.
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