Professional tennis tournaments, for example, are not a rigged game.
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But learning to play a rigged game isn't the solution.
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How do you play a rigged game, they reason, without cheating?
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This is a rigged game whose beneficiaries are small in number.
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That is unfair, yes, but not itself proof of a "rigged" game.
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"Arbitration is a rigged game," Werner said in an emailed statement to CNBC.
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American companies that play by the rules can't win at this rigged game.
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You run a rigged game, you got to give the suckers a taste.
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So for her to come out and say that this was a rigged game.
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"Arbitration is a rigged game," Werner said in an emailed statement from her office.
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Forced arbitration is a rigged game, with the firms picked and paid by the companies.
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We are watching players compete in a rigged game with potentially mortal stakes and unreliable referees.
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As the left realizes it's playing a rigged game, it's becoming determined to rewrite those rules itself.
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"Make no mistake: Arbitration is a rigged game, one that the bank nearly always wins," Werner said.
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Ghaul isn't the only one suggesting that the Guardians are self-congratulatory beneficiaries in a rigged game.
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Right now, the left in Europe is playing by someone else's rule book in a rigged game.
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Ultimately, we're all playing a rigged game of craps in a casino where the house always wins.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dismiss the stock records and argue economy is a rigged game benefiting the wealthiest only.
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"Only in Washington could a rigged game like this be called independent," she says to close out the ad.
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But we will not be drawn into a rigged game based on a playbook borrowed from the McCarthy era.
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In the morning after he concedes the race, they could give up on politics and conclude it's a rigged game.
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As I've reported elsewhere, as the left realizes it's playing a rigged game, it's becoming determined to rewrite those rules itself.
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Women who struggle ceaselessly to be smart enough, attractive enough, ambitious enough and likable enough have been playing a rigged game.
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Critics claim that executive compensation is essentially a rigged game, in which boards packed with insiders parcel out rewards to their friends.
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Another argument could be made: Those pimps—most of them poor, black, and disenfranchised—are maintaining their position in a rigged game.
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More than in any other year, predicting the film that will win Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars feels like a rigged game.
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"Both parties should compete on a level playing field, not in a rigged game designed to suppress the will of the people," Warren said.
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In contrast, many middle-class people increasingly think that America's institutions are a rigged game where the powerful and connected have a dealer's edge.
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When candidates for office give simplistic answers — keep out the Mexicans or blame the Muslims — they insult everyone who is fighting to survive in a rigged game.
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People who support Sanders and other disrupters are more like to say politics is a rigged game; they are much less likely to express pride in America.
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Changing the tax code to put America first not only makes sense, it will help restore fairness to a system that most Americans think is a rigged game.
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The conventional view among party elites, echoed by political reporters, is that Clinton must keep railing against the "rigged game," free trade, Wall Street and other populist bogeymen, for two reasons.
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But it's also a gut punch to voter confidence that their votes really matter and that voting isn't a cynical rigged game in which all spoils go to just one side.
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As it is now, the state's electoral system is still intentionally handicapped against Democrats, and just because a rigged game has been normalized doesn't mean we shouldn't call it what it is.
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This would not only be an open process, but it would show that Team Clinton is finally willing to give up some control of what's looked like a rigged game for years.
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She has set up a rigged game of Chutes and Ladders, where those who are sexually assaulted constantly end up on a chute, and the accused constantly end up with a ladder.
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"Like all corporate site selection, the HQ2 process is a rigged game, where the company knows the answer in advance and sets up a fictitious competition to wrest maximum incentives," wrote Florida.
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In June 2017, the Great America Alliance, an advocacy group that supports Mr. Trump's agenda, posted a campaign-style web video attacking the Mueller inquiry as a "rigged game" out to get the president.
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They understand that if a trade deal doesn't address China's currency manipulation, widespread labor abuses and abysmal environmental record, it's not what the 22019th-century economist David Ricardo called "comparative advantage"; it's a rigged game.
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But he has done far, far better than anybody ever expected, because a sizable number of Democrat voters share his view that politics is a rigged game where the billionaires and the crony capitalists always win.
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"Like all corporate site election, the HQ2 process is a rigged game, where the company knows the answer in advance and sets up a fictitious competition to wrest maximum incentives," CityLab's Richard Florida wrote in May.
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His reelection bid that year was marred by mass protests and anger at an allegedly rigged game, and the subsequent slowdown of the Russian economy has made it seem like he has little to offer the people.
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Nevertheless, Fiorina has aggressively criticized both ABC News and the RNC for engaging in a "rigged game" that ignores the will of voters in Iowa -- who handed her more delegates than Chris Christie and John Kasich -- and New Hampshire.
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"It is a rigged game, and it is rigged against the voters of New Hampshire because they won't have all of the options and all of the choices that they deserve," Fiorina said to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
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L. You can look at how in Kansas City, Communities Creating Opportunity is working to change the terms of predatory payday lending — a classic rigged game where it becomes incredibly expensive to be poor — by organizing power through congregations.
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You see how hard it is to distinguish between internal limits and external ones, and thus how hard it is to untangle what sort of effort a person can or should make to win the rigged game they've been born into.
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People want a fair game, and they recognize that at the heart of an unfair, rigged game that is undermining the heart of the democracy that I think we all have to care about, whether you're a Republican or Democrat.
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"TV allowed itself get into a rigged game and it's getting its ass handed to it because online [media] set the metrics," said Joe Marchese, head of advanced advertising at 21st Century Fox, in an interview on stage on the Re/code conference.
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Compared with Sanders supporters, voters with a favorable view of Clinton are much less likely to view politics as a rigged game, much more likely to express pride in America, and much less likely to express the view that "people like me" are in decline.
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We have seen the effects of the top-down system that has prevailed in Washington over the last almost-eight years and the rigged game that politicians play to keep their power — many of whom have a personal stake in keeping one of their own in Washington.
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George Georgiopoulos, "Cash airlift helped avert Greek bank run during debt crisis: paper". Reuters online, 3 March 2013. Éric Toussaint, Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!. International Viewpoint, 22 January 2013.
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The "Milk Bottle" game can be rigged this way. On a rigged game, one of the milk bottles is heavier than the others. Depending on how the bottles are stacked will determine if the player will win. Some games are simply impossible to win.
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Other game operators would then look for these chalk marks and entice the individual to also play their rigged game. This is not common practice anymore, although there still are a few confidence men in the carnival business. Learning about how carnival games work can help an individual from being cheated.
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Strange things start happening. Gigi's mother is senile, but one night she appears normal and chats with Gigi. Ghosts kidnap Fai's spirit and refuse to let him leave until he wins a rigged game of mahjong; a ghost possesses his body in the meantime. Fan also gets possessed by another ghost.
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Other game operators would then look for these chalk marks and entice the individuals to also play their rigged game. Rigging a carnival game may be done in many different manners depending on the game. For example, the "Ball and Basket" game may be rigged by moving the "A" frame onto which the basket is mounted. This would change the trajectory of the ball.
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As early as 1958, in the situationist manifesto, Debord described official culture as a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse. Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas.Debord (1957) pp.2, 10 This technique of the spectacle is sometimes called recuperation.
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Also at NBC, Wilson served as a director for the late-night music performance program Sunday Night during its two season run from 1988 to 1990, "Sunday Night", Internet Movie Database, episodes #104 (1988), #113 (1989), #114 (1989), 121 (1989) and for many other live events as well, including the Miss America Pageant. Wilson had a brief part playing the director of the rigged game show "Twenty One" in the 1994 film Quiz Show.
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In the society of the spectacle, the commodities rule the workers and the consumers instead of being ruled by them. The consumers are passive subjects that contemplate the reified spectacle. As early as 1958, in the situationist manifesto, Debord described official culture as a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse. Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas.
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She is just as temper-driven as her OVA persona, but with the addition of being a heavy gambler. When Makoto and Fujisawa first meet her, she had lost her clothes and the entire temple to Jinnai in a rigged game. Note: Overall design and visual appearance of the character Midori Himeno from the PlayStation fighting video-game title Eretzvaju (also known as "Evil Zone" in the United States and Europe) was heavily based on Shayla-Shayla. Even though Midori's archetype is somewhat opposite to that of Shayla's, she looks exactly like her.
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A couple named Tom and Mary win a trip to South Park for the "Cow Days" festival from a game show, although they were expecting something more extravagant. Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman are at the festival, but find it less than satisfactory. They find something enjoyable in a ball-throwing game that allows them the chance to win a pair of (crudely made) Terrance and Phillip dolls, but the game is fixed and can’t be won. Kyle attempts to bring Officer Barbrady's attention to the rigged game, but his last throw is successful when the carny discreetly switches the balls.
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In the 1950s, concern over illicit business practices in television and radio including; plugola, payola, and rigged game shows led to congressional and U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearings. In 1959, Attorney General William Rogers reported to President Dwight Eisenhower that deceptive and false advertising and programming was becoming a trend in the United States, and needed to stop. In that same year, FCC Chairman John Doerfer presented his plan to expand public service programming on television networks. The plan called for some public service programming in prime time slots, which did not occur before this.
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In 1922 Mark Van Doren married Dorothy Graffe, novelist and writer of the memoir The Professor and I (1959), whom he had earlier met at The Nation. His successful book, Anthology of World Poetry, enabled the couple to buy a house on Bleecker Street in New York City in February 1929, before markets collapsed. Their son, Charles Van Doren (February 12, 1926 - April 9, 2019), briefly achieved renown as the winner of the rigged game show Twenty-One. In the film Quiz Show (1994), Mark Van Doren was played by Paul Scofield, who earned an Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance.
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One example of a charlatan is a 19th-century medicine show operator, who has long since left town by the time the people who bought his "snake oil" or similarly named "cure-all" tonic realize that it does not perform as advertised. A misdirection by a charlatan is a confuddle, a dropper is a leader of a group of con men and hangmen are con men that present false checks. A gaff means to trick or con and a mugu is a victim of a rigged game. In reported spiritual communications, a charlatan is a person who fakes evidence that a spirit is "making contact" with the medium and seekers.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, and Sting. The story is a heist involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag. To pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. The film brought Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Jones, a former Wales international footballer, and Statham, a former diver, to worldwide audiences.
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