Certainly some of the techniques that Apple uses, you know, could be considered gimmicks.
President Obama wants to raise more by cracking down on some egregious overseas tax gimmicks.
And we feel very comfortable, as a legal matter, that the Constitution trumps gimmicks.
Some of baseball's superstitions are legend, ranging from quirky gimmicks to rituals bordering on obsessive behavior.
Some entertainment gimmicks blur the line between simulation and reality, like game manufacturer Namco's audition machine.
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The individual procrastinators were still expected to pay all they owed on time--without budget gimmicks.
Individual banks competed for consumers by offering mileage awards, toasters and all manner of other gimmicks.
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The truth is, none of these gimmicks, none of these slogans made a bit of difference.
Gimmicks such as declaring English to be the official Hoechst language have worn thin.
The S4 can be that, but first you must figure out how to hide all its gimmicks.
"It's a load of PR gimmicks to make people think unions are being unreasonable, " the spokesman said.
Similarly, Rothman's gimmicks have helped his company become one of the world's largest sellers of premium cigars.
But if so, you can be sure that it will be with something other than 3D gimmicks.
So far that is eluding Groupon unless they use all sorts of accounting gimmicks to get there.
The ad agencies had big staffs with which the magazine guys worked to develop plans and marketing gimmicks.
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Lots of states have been using cheesy budget gimmicks or hidden tax hikes to plug their budget holes.
Gimmicks aside, it was a clutch of uptempo numbers that received the best reaction inside Oslo's Telenor Arena.
Flash sales are apparently the next big thing for car company marketing gimmicks.
"They yearn for authenticity and are distrustful of gimmicks, " says Phil Lempert, food trend expert and founder of Supermarketguru.com.
It employs all of the GamePad's gimmicks across its single and multiplayer games.
Focusing on gimmicks, or aping the success of Xbox Live, will only turn loyal fans off to the idea.
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Of course, if such gimmicks enhanced returns, we could all beat the market.
Advisors should steer their clients away from the gimmicks the industry has created to peddle insurance as an investment.
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Outside America, deregulation is creating brutal new Crandallesque price wars, where muscle often counts for more than fancy gimmicks.
Witness Tanzania, where three providers tend to offer gimmicks rather than real discounts.
And thus there cannot be shams and gimmicks in relation to tax either.
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The days of ad agencies being synonymous with nonsensical promotional gimmicks with opaque assurances of positive ROI are thankfully numbered.
The price of escaping culpability for missing whatever accounting gimmicks may have occurred at Enron is accepting a certain deterministic myopia.
He can then get additional breathing space by means of various gimmicks, such as redeeming debt issued to civil-service pension plans.
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So fierce is the competition, that insurers are losing staff to rivals and blowing much of their budgets on marketing gimmicks.
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