The technological shell game The industry also plays what we call a technological shell game.
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Like a shell game, I'm going to move these around.
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But Trump shows how empty the shell game has become.
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It's like a simplified version of the shell game for animals.
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In truth, it's a new twist on an old shell game.
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The deck is being stacked in a private-interest shell game.
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"There is no shell game," Justice Department lawyer Rodney Patton said.
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If this sounds like a shell game, that's because it is.
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So, this pricing shell game actually can drive away deserving students.
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"It sounds like a shell game to me," Mr. Sanderson said.
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That is the problem with playing a shell game with voters.
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So that was really more of a shell game than anything else.
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"It's a shell game," said Chip Bergh, the chief executive of Levi's.
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They moved like a glacial version of the con man's shell game.
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"This shows you the inherent shell game in pharmaceutical pricing," Mr. Warren said.
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So what is the hospital tax, and how does this "shell game" work?
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Is Shell just engaged in spin, playing some kind of (ahem) shell game?
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The SALT deduction functions like a shell game between Washington, D.C. and state capitols.
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That makes figuring out where the missiles are located like a high-stakes shell game.
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This is a shell game, an attempt to make the entire Russia investigation seem absurd.
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Every week my team talks to companies that have liberated themselves from this shell game.
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Since last summer, the Justice Department appears to have been playing a clever shell game.
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It's a shell game that convinces you to empathize with characters as they're ground into dust.
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"We were constantly playing what, I think, is a shell game," General Manager Jerry Dipoto said.
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We've seen numerous versions of that ontological shell game, and this one has no new moves.
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"There's something happening here, and there's a shell game that Elon Musk has going on," Sonnenfeld said.
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The use of social media to spread political misinformation online is partly just a giant shell game.
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"The Skate" gets at both, as Ms. Childs runs a sly shell game with playfulness and poignancy.
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The city and Bruce Ratner, a politically wired developer, reprised this shell game for Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game.
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Federal prosecutors also alleged he conducted an elaborate shell game with his shuttered hedge fund, MSMB Capital Management.
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LAWSUIT ALLEGES &aposCON SHELL GAME&apos TO BUILD OBAMA CENTER IN CHICAGO PARK A lawsuit filed Monday by Protect Our Parks is seeking to block construction of the center, alleging the city of Chicago has engaged in "a short con shell game" to help the former president construct the center.
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It's a shell game, and for those with these loans, the cup never reveals more money, only another bill.
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"This is a shell game, a ponzi scheme, that corporate America will perpetrate on the American people," Pelosi said.
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I do have a view, however, that the Supreme Court has been playing a shell game with corruption laws.
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"Essentially they played a shell game here, and sold shares that they weren't allowed to sell," according to Henning.
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This shell game concealed that the accounts and their ads were actually all being run by the same operation.
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Such discount programs are often an "industry tactic to keep costs high through a complex shell game," the letter said.
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"What they want to do is play a shell game with this money," said John Cornyn, a senator from Texas.
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The Obama administration on Friday attempted to bat down charges that it is playing a "shell game" with various intelligence powers.
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"Shell game?" is SKEET, but the shells the clue refers to are the ammunition used to shoot at the clay targets.
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"It is my clients' hope that the Diocese of Harrisburg is not playing a shell game with their assets," he said.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — Good crosswords and street scams like the SHELL GAME have a lot in common, believe it or not.
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On one typical morning a few years ago, Dad was super excited about the idea of doing a shell game puzzle.
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In its first season, The Expanse always felt like it was hiding what was really going on in an elaborate shell game.
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"Our current tax code incentivizes this shell game, and massively increases our trade deficit," Hassett said of the practice known as offshoring.
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The result is that RAMP is a shell game because it prioritizes making VA's numbers look better over properly reviewing denied claims.
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"The commission cannot evade privacy obligations by playing a shell game with the nation's voting records," Mr. Rotenberg said in a statement.
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It's a shrewd and entirely unsubtle shell game: Gingrich preserves the "good" parts of Trump's tough guy image, while removing the racist ones.
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The theory undergirding this shell game is that these donations are "charitable" and thus fully tax deductible, unlike paying state and local taxes.
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On top of using a shell game to cheat contract workers out their legal pay rates, Compass also shortchanged many of its employees.
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The buyer would be WeWork, the office rental outfit very much rooted in the virtue-and-shell-game ethos of 21st-century capitalism.
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Far as Dame can tell, the alleged shell game with his money started in 2014 when a royalty payment of $175,000 was withheld.
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At 65A, the clue is "The clue for 128-Down, if this shell game weren't a scam," and the answer is ARCTIC EXPLORER.
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"What we're watching in terms of American policy is a shell game," said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt.
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"In today's America, we've been brainwashed into thinking we don't owe each other any help or support," she fumes in SHELL GAME (Morrow, $27.99).
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The SEC had accused the city of "playing a shell game" by shuffling money among accounts to conceal its deteriorating financial condition from investors.
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Mr. Steinberg's grid pulls the wool over our eyes by setting up a SHELL GAME with three overturned nut shells depicted by shaded squares.
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That fact, even more than the spread of fake news, can be its own sort of shell game, one that we are pulling on ourselves.
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Here, Pout-Pout has to contend with a crafty octopus who has nabbed the pearl and challenges him to — it's only appropriate — a shell game.
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Klein, Goodman shows, was a virtuoso of this kind of swindle, not just selling the beans but keeping them moving, in a perpetual shell game.
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Missiles are fired from multiple launch sites around the country and moved about on mobile launchers in an elaborate shell game meant to deceive adversaries.
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"This trial demonstrates that Ms. Tilton has been playing a shell game with valuable assets," said Michael Carlinsky of the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan law firm.
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The SEC's 2013 lawsuit alleged the city and Boudreaux played "a shell game" by moving money among accounts to conceal Miami's deteriorating financial condition from investors.
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"They're playing a shell game with Bernhardt's calendar to still have to avoid saying publicly what he's working on and who he's meeting with," he said.
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Already, in mid-2018, a Senate committee report focused on this tax machination, calling it "a shell game" and singling out Connecticut as a major perpetrator.
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But Trump has proven adept and using chaos and adding to it to keep our attention split, like a screaming toddler conducting the world's weirdest shell game.
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But that's a shell game where in the name of fairness someone can be asked to provide endless proof of what is evident to the naked eye.
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Yet too often, they attempt to play a shell game, proclaiming that "blue lives matter" and blaming black protesters for "making an agenda" out of police violence.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead impeachment manager and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that the White House was engaged in a disingenuous shell game.
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The painter here shows his genius for displacing cultural reifications into an interminable shell-game analysis of the modern human psyche: To be or not to be?
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So, it&aposs almost a shell game where we are focused on what this media, on the headlights, the oversimplification, and then ignoring what really needs our attention.
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Daniels's lawyers in a subsequent court filing named the president for the first time as a defendant and accused Cohen of running a shell game to protect him.
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At the Group of 20 summit meeting in China last weekend, President Obama reiterated his support for a cooperative global effort to end the international tax shell game.
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Currently, the commission is pursuing a civil penalty against the city of Miami for officials engaging in a "shell game" -- using restricted funds to inflate its general fund.
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While some customers are satisfied, others now call it a "fraud," a "high-tech shell game" and an "unlawful bait-and-switch," according to lawsuits filed against the company.
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Joseline Hernandez and Stevie J are playing a shell game with their child, hiding their daughter from the court ... this according to the guardian appointed to protect the kid.
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They charge that states have redirected existing money from education into other areas and used the lottery money to plug up the hole in a kind of shell game.
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It felt at times as though Coldplay's stewardship of the mantle of Biggest Rock Band Alive was, in part, a shell game to mime the moves of their predecessor.
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In the West, the Soviet dissident turned Russian dissident Garry Kasparov has been the leading voice pressing the idea that Putin's power is dependent on a fragile shell game.
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C. arguments as anything but a shell game props up the lie that it is somehow unfair to identify and point out racism, let alone fight to eradicate it.
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We need this reform so that 340B helps the vulnerable populations it was originally intended to serve while keeping taxpayers from being fleeced in this health-care shell game.
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Federal authorities have referred to Mr. Mann's actions as an old-fashioned "kiting" scheme, a shell game in which he shuffled nonexistent funds from one business account to another.
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What we are dealing with here, in other words, is a bit of a shell game — hard to follow, costly to the public, satisfying to those who are running it.
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Photo: GettyFacebook has been playing a shell game with your privacy for years, but now it says it will put all of the settings that control your data under one shell.
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Alvarez's lawyer said during an August trial that Tilton was playing a "shell game" with valuable assets, while Tilton insisted that Alvarez had every document needed to manage the Zohar collateral.
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The whole logic of this franchise shell game is that you're never quite satisfied with any particular movie because the point is you have to be sucked into the whole thing.
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This change is a complete shell game to manipulate outdated Congressional Budget Office rules, borrowing money from future years to fill in whatever holes tax reform might create over the first decade.
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The problem, as Kelly points out, is that this was always a kind of shell game: Moon could never change the fact that the US and North Korea want fundamentally different things.
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Such moves, which Shoemaker called a strike fighter "shell game," hurt morale, meaning personnel don't sign up to extend their Navy careers, leaving positions open and years of training and experience wasted. Sen.
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If you're wondering why insurers substantially increased premiums for this year, even far beyond the underlying health care inflation rate — now at around 4 percent — this shell game with risk is your answer.
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If you think American politics is a rigged shell game, where the views of the rich and powerful count but those of regular Americans don't, then two prominent political scientists agree with you.
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The notion that Kavanaugh holds a pro-democracy vision is what the Post put in Starr's headline, but the full sentence makes it clear that the former special prosecutor is running a shell game.
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Her lawyers in the plagiarism case had played "a shell game" with her, she said; the judge in the divorce case was colluding with Ken; some of her own publishers had schemed against her.
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For instance, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's elaborate shell game with health care was designed to conceal the Obamacare repeal plan not only from public view, but from Democrats and even many Republican colleagues.
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The truth is that our spineless representatives are more worried about passing shell-game legislation favorable to the tax lobbyists on K Street, rather than tax bills that help the average Jane and Joe.
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A nine-person jury found Miami and Boudreaux liable for engaging in a "shell game" by shuffling money among accounts to conceal the city's deteriorating financial condition from investors and help it sell debt.
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He and eight others said their managers had asked them to engage in a monthly shell game of briefly inserting these unavailable properties into Oyo's listings — complete with fake photographs — to help impress investors.
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"Mulholland's staggering fraud perpetrated on the investing public was built on an elaborate offshore shell game, which included his secret ownership of an offshore brokerage firm," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capters said in a statement.
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"This case represents a classic example of a shell game of moving the money from one investor to another with some left over to fatten the coffers of the money manager," Galvin said in a statement.
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Much advance coverage focused not just on the generational implications of the decision, but on how well the administration was keeping the choice from the press, treating the shell game like a proxy test of governance.
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"The IRS might well conclude that this is little more than a shell game, with the employer effectively remitting the employee's income tax payments on his or her behalf," Walczak said in a paper released Friday.
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He could not hold on—more on that in a minute—and slid past the bag, beginning what could best be described as a shell game of which hand was going to grab for the base.
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Tyga's playing a super high stakes shell game with the more than $2 million he owes an ex-business partner in his Last Kings t-shirt company -- but the guy's not up for games, he's just suing.
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This is the shell game as the oil industry intends it to work—keep prying eyes distracted from the truth, minimize the initial bad press, and make verbal gesticulations indicating you are sorry for any harm done.
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"Selling off public land and resources as quickly as possible at fire-sale prices is not good stewardship; it's a shell game where the oil, gas and coal industries win and the American taxpayers lose," they said.
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"Selling off public land and resources as quickly as possible at fire-sale prices is not good stewardship; it's a shell game where the oil, gas and coal industries win and the American taxpayers lose," the said.
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Even when the projects are well suited for the local economy, the result can look a bit like a shell game: Things are built, money goes to Chinese companies and the country is saddled with more debt.
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In 1985, he told People magazine that he used to run a classic street hustle, the shell game, in San Francisco, where, at 21, he had his jaw broken by an opponent who was livid at the game's outcome.
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All that's left is the shell game — moving money around and making sure things get from point A to point B. This approach never quite attains liftoff to become truly vital, but there's a kind of dark wisdom to it.
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The "shell game" accusation refers to a sleight of hand swindle, often seen on city streets for money, in which a player must follow and guess where an object lands as a dealer passes it under overturned cups or shells.
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When the industry consistently characterizes these two plants as technological fixes to coal's massive carbon emissions, both of which are heavily subsidized by federal investment and which perform unevenly at best, this is an example of the technological shell game. 4.
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" The GOP's proposed pitch to increase tax cuts while axing tax deductions popular with the middle class -- like deductions for student loans and school supplies purchased by teachers -- are a "sleight of hand," Pelosi said, adding that "it's a shell game.
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" For that matter, North Korea's shell game is not even a violation of the agreement Mr. Trump signed with Mr. Kim, which proclaimed their meeting "an epochal event of great significance" but referred only to working toward a vague "denuclearization.
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Ms. Feinstein, who knows this shell game, already has a bump stock ban in her latest proposal, along with more than 200 different assault weapons now flooding the gun industry's civilian market, plus ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds.
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But the shell-game process of moving money from the public treasury to a donor to a nonprofit to a family to a private school makes it very difficult to account for how well those public dollars are ultimately spent.
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But Remy also aspires to the freedom, and the presumption of universality, granted to musicians like Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and—one of Remy's heroes—Bruce Springsteen, who draw from the stories of those around them, making a shell game of identity.
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Subtitled "The Elite Charade of Changing the World," Giridharadas's new-in-paperback book "Winners Take All" explains the practice of philanthropy as a kind of shell game disguising the sins of the top one percent behind an ostentatious facade of do-gooding.
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"Make no bones about it: No matter how they try to move a shell game around, the cost will be borne as another mandatory spending program in Washington," said Representative Rodney Davis of Illinois, the ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee.
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"There might have been some of those instances, but my impression was that the majority of them were larger investors, and things like [limited liability corporations], kind of a shell game," said Elizabeth Maradik, a city planner in South Bend's department of community investment.
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LAWSUIT ALLEGED &aposCON SHELL GAME&apos TO BUILD OBAMA CENTER IN CHICAGO PARK The lawsuit argued that while the purpose of transferring the land was to house the official Obama presidential library, the center will not include his presidential papers, only a digital copy.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the city of Miami squared off in Florida federal court on Tuesday, with the regulator accusing city officials of playing a financial shell game to cut costs on a $150 million municipal bond sale in 2009.
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"Let's see what they do, but if they're going to create more debt, and they're not going to pay for it ... I think we can show the American people that is a shell game," Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, told reporters.
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The first time I can remember hearing about "combative foreign policy" was when I was 13 or 14, and the big news was the Iran-Contra affair, a sort of paramilitary shell game that became the albatross around the necks of the entire Reagan administration.
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MIAMI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The city of Miami and its former budget director were found liable by a Florida jury on Wednesday for engaging in a financial shell game in a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stemming from a municipal bond sale.
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The truck owners "sought to evade enforcement of our traffic laws through an elaborate shell game, transferring ownership of their ice cream trucks between and among dozens of phony companies, effectively shielding their trucks from fines and seizure," said Zachary W. Carter, the city's corporation counsel.
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To make it stick, they overrode a veto by Mr. Brownback, who remains a blithe champion of the supply-side shell game, as do many other Republicans, despite the failure of what the governor called his "real-life experiment" and its calamitous impact on vital services.
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He mastered more than 100 words, grasped abstract concepts like absence and presence (Alex excelled at the shell game) and often gave orders to and toyed with the language of researchers who studied him, purposely giving them the wrong answers to their questions to alleviate his own boredom.
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"They were playing a shell game of such epic proportions that years later, to unwind this, the city had to take money from people who serve, firemen, policemen, in order to replenish those capital projects," Amie Riggle Berlin, senior trial counsel for the SEC said in her closing argument.
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A new category of products presented as health foods, like sports drinks and low-fat yogurt, played a sort of shell game by advertising that the bulk of their calories came from high-fructose corn syrup, without letting on to consumers that this was just another form of sugar.
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In a statement issued by the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office, US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: Mary Boone, a Manhattan art gallery owner, admitted to cheating the U.S. tax system by blatantly lying about her expenses and playing a shell game with bank accounts to hide her true assets.
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Because more than 90 percent of school revenues come from state and local sources, lawmakers worried that districts would play a shell game with new Title I funds — transferring a dollar of local resources to rich schools from poor ones for every new federal dollar earmarked for poor schools that arrived.
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In its complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the Campaign Legal Center alleges that de Blasio and his campaign "concocted a shell game" that allowed wealthy donors to make excessive contributions to the mayor's 2020 presidential campaign by contributing to his political action committees, Fairness PAC and NY Fairness PAC.
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"Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way, known as a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab, one that will endure for centuries to come, regardless of future changing public park needs and increasingly consequential environmental conditions," the lawsuit said.
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According to Le Monde, wealthy Brazilian subcontractor Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho engaged in the typical barely intelligible offshore money shell game shenanigans, which eventually led to $1.5 million ending up in the offshore account of IOC member and then-IAAF president Lamine Diack's son three days before the 20073 vote in Copenhagen.
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"This is a shell game," wrote former OGE Director Walter ShaubWalter Michael ShaubEx-ethics chief rips Trump July 4 event as 'taxpayer-funded campaign ad' Here are the top paid White House staffers The Hill's Morning Report - Trump touts handshake with Kim, tariff freeze with Xi MORE in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.
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Exhibitions like 30 Americans could have the potential to amplify conversations about race within Detroit, while helping to demonstrate a meeting between its communities and one of its longstanding institutions, and to write off that effort as a shell game on the part of the Rubells or a misstep by the DIA is giving it short shrift.
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OBAMA CENTER FOES DECRY &aposRUBBER-STAMPING&apos AS CHICAGO COUNCIL OKS PROJECT The Center still has a series of approval steps to go through, including a federal review, but has also faced a lawsuit by Protect Our Parks, which alleged that the city was engaging in a "short con shell game" to get the 12-story museum and library built on parkland.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the bill "a shell game" and "a Ponzi scheme," while Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
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