Fassel has done it twice before, but this time he needs a new ploy.
He knew damned well the terrorists' newest ploy wasn't going to work.
"Every time we come up with a new ploy to stop them," he said, "they figure out a way around it."
He measured the risk and the opportunity of this new ploy impassively.
Using government subsidies to increase local authority rents is not a new ploy.
Now he caught on to my new ploy.
The sudden influx of Murgo gold suggests a new ploy.
I wondered if this could be some new ploy to arouse my interest.
And they were sent not just to store managers but also, in a new ploy for the publishing business, to front-line clerks.
"We'll have to try a new ploy," he decided.