So, is the world's most powerful console a slam dunk?
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He did the audition and it was a slam dunk.
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It's no slam dunk, but Tampa should get it together.
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Opposing bigger trucks should be a slam dunk in Washington.
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Then, Oladipo casually delivered a slam dunk wearing the mask.
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The Allergan combination was no slam dunk to start with.
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This should be a slam dunk no vote for Sen.
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TYLER MATHISEN: And the original NAFTA was no slam dunk.
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I thought it was a slam dunk, to be honest.
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Griffith participated in the first slam dunk contest in 1984.
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It seems like a slam dunk for you guys, right?
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Gaming and VRSteam is dominated by Windows titlesScreenshot: GizmodoFrom a macOS slam-dunk to a Windows slam-dunk: Microsoft's operating system is the place to be if you're interested in gaming or virtual reality.
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I think she would just be such a slam dunk blockbuster.
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This is not a slam dunk, as Tedeschi explained to me.
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I can&apost say that tax reform is a slam dunk.
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Virginia was once an absolute slam dunk easy win for Republicans.
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So to speak, but usually these cases are a slam dunk.
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The goal of going carbon-free is hardly a slam dunk.
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The PlayStation TV should have been a slam dunk for Sony.
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"Banks will lobby and it's not a slam dunk," he said.
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"It's not a slam dunk" despite the preemption clause, Martin said.
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BECKY QUICK: Although-- it's not a slam dunk for the vaccinations.
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Newspapers editorialized in favor, and activists considered it a slam dunk.
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But Love Actually, in fact, was not a populist slam dunk.
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He did not win the Slam Dunk Contest, by the way.
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Financially, this is a slam dunk, if you pardon the pun.
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From a certain historical angle, it looks like a slam dunk.
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Was the vote a slam dunk or was it wishy-washy?
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James' success on the basketball court wasn't necessarily a slam dunk.
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A slam-dunk appearance Justin Timberlake gets a surprise in Cleveland.
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"This has never been viewed as a slam dunk," said Rep.
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The Slam Dunk Contest is the last competition of the night.
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There's nothing about Lady Bird that doesn't sound like a slam dunk.
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She thinks this new version of the device is a slam-dunk.
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So with no slam dunk, there could also be a political cost.
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"I think it's a little early to say it's a slam dunk."
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Trump's massive tax cut is a slam dunk for the American people.
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Slam dunk cases are rarely ever tried in a court of law.
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This is a slam dunk I do not believe he will miss.
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In that tradition, today he's dropped his latest EP Slam Dunk Vol.
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He cemented his place in slam dunk history 30 years ago today.
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Politically speaking, winning that permission probably would have been a slam-dunk.
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The weapons charges should have been a slam-dunk for the feds.
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"He picked us 'cause he thought we were a slam dunk," Osbourne said.
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Given the circumstances, how could this be anything short of a slam dunk?
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What counts as a slam dunk here, if not a tape like that?
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Colson followed up a 3-pointer with a slam dunk during the run.
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But Waymo thought it had a slam dunk for a big patent win.
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Limitations Having these phone numbers may seem like a slam-dunk for police.
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Back to Gorsuch… In normal times, his confirmation would be a slam dunk.
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So to have the pair talking to each other is a slam dunk.
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Although this implied a possible biological origin, it still wasn't a slam dunk.
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Department and their handling of evidence, and the seeming desire to slam-dunk
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That's a slam-dunk, pack-a-bag, we're goin' to San Diego situation.
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But there's one dish she's not so sure will be a slam dunk.
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It was more of a side-eye than a slam dunk on Trump.
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Viola Davis is a slam-dunk to win Supporting Actress, as Denzel Washington
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Check out the gallery ... oughta get ya ready for tonight's Slam Dunk Contest.
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For anyone with $22 million to spare, this home is a slam dunk.
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But it's not a slam dunk the deal would reach the finish line.
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With interest rates near zero, infrastructure amounts to a slam-dunk investment opportunity.
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All of this makes a big earnings beat look like a slam dunk.
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The first set was tennis's version of slam-dunk contest, a showboating extravaganza.
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You could look at Disney's 2019 schedule and say 'that's a slam dunk.
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"It's a reasonable bet," Dr. Kendler added, "but it's not a slam dunk."
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A nice bottle of hooch is typically a low-effort slam-dunk gift.
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Even a Colorado health official admitted the report is not a slam-dunk.
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Cleaning up GE will take years of work and is no slam dunk.
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An 18-time NBA all-star, Slam Dunk champ, and two-time Olympian.
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I think it's difficult, because they were all hoping for a slam dunk.
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"This (ITC case) cannot be a slam dunk," said Pearson, a former ITC chairman.
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So, probiotics aren't exactly a slam-dunk treatment for this specific type of diarrhea.
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CLAYPOOL: -- is I don&apost think this is -- this is not a slam dunk.
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It continues on Saturday night with the Slam Dunk and 3-point Shot contests.
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But we don&apost have slam-dunk evidence that they are behind the leaks.
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But you say that the prosecutors do not have a slam-dunk case here?
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Tester sees Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana as three slam-dunk races for the parties.
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And yet the White House is treating the Rice news as a slam dunk.
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Gordon recently withdrew from the NBA's upcoming slam dunk contest because of his injury.
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She thinks there's enough physical evidence that a conviction will be a slam dunk.
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It didn't have to be a slam-dunk winner for him to take it.
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But experts say the lawsuit won't be a slam dunk for the president either.
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"These are just slam dunk earnings," said Nick Raich, CEO of The Earnings Scout.
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So was Clippers' point guard Chris Paul and NBA slam dunk champion Zach LaVine.
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What to watch: The argument against it is by no means a slam dunk.
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In 1994, she heard the evidence against O.J. Simpson and saw a slam dunk.
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She considered the case a slam dunk as well, but the jury acquitted Blake.
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If you can get develop that, I guarantee it's gonna be a slam dunk.
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"This change would seem like a slam dunk, right?" she said, when we met.
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He takes it more seriously, in a way, because it's not a slam dunk.
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Manning was never the kind of slam-dunk Hall of Famer his rings implied.
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However, passing same-sex marriage in Costa Rica is still not a slam-dunk.
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Given the workload, they focus first on the slam dunk, guilty-as-sin cases.
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In Lauren Yee's play, improving Sino-American relations is not precisely a slam dunk.
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He also became the youngest winner of the Slam Dunk Contest that same season.
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Focus on being the slam dunk in your field instead of the mega steal.
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It continues on Saturday night with the Slam Dunk and 3-point Shot contests.
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According to Furie's lawyers, those documents made the copyright infringement case a slam dunk.
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"That was the hope, that this would be a slam dunk," Dr. Poinar said.
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"These allegations, if they're true, provide a slam-dunk case for impeachment," she told me.
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At the time, said theory wasn't quite the slam-dunk we take it as today.
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Aaron Gordon was robbed by the judges of the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday night.
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While the Fed may cut, it's not a slam dunk that the dollar will fall.
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For now, it does remain relatively secure but it's by no means a slam dunk.
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Bernie likes basketball and played with his grandchildren after his "slam dunk" in New Hampshire.
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"I'm like, 'Oh, my god, this is so slam-dunk for us," Dunne tells me.
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Plus Trump aides realize executive privilege isn't absolute — so it wasn't a slam dunk, anyway.
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In that case, the Honda Civic sedan is pretty much a slam dunk at $20,530.
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There is no such thing as a slam dunk case, I don't think that exists.
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Patrick Schwarzenegger's model GF, Abby Champion, was a slam dunk, at least according to him.
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But 666 Fifth Avenue, which Kushner thought was a slam dunk, is haunting his family.
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But all will take it seriously, and it is in no way a slam dunk.
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Crude reality: Cheap oil used to be a slam-dunk positive for the American economy.
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"It's a slam-dunk case," he told Bush, according to a book by Bob Woodward.
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Add it all up, and it's not what one would call a slam dunk case.
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In Pennsylvania, I lead a project that is proving the point with slam dunk force.
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A few days at an all-inclusive dude ranch is a slam dunk for everyone.
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For an originalist and committed textualist such as Gorsuch, this should be a slam-dunk.
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Warren depicted this as "slam dunk" proof that she really is of Native American ancestry.
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"If this is true, this is plain, slam-dunk, criminal obstruction of justice," tweeted Sen.
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"They were so convinced they had this slam-dunk of a park," he told me.
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From what's been teased, it looks like this collection will be a serious slam dunk.
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It probably is, based on the specs provided, but this isn't necessarily a slam dunk.
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On Saturday there's a slam dunk competition, a three-point contest and a skills challenge.
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But overhauling the tax code is notoriously difficult and moving legislation is no slam dunk.
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"Present your slam-dunk case," Hannity continued as the trial extended into his 9 p.m.
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"That was quite a slam dunk," said Rian Whitton, a robotics analyst at ABI Research.
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"When he was elected mayor, I thought, 'This is a slam dunk,'" Mr. Cheatham said.
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The case is "not a slam dunk," Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said Monday.
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The guy says the photos should be enough for a slam dunk before a jury.
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Is this particular case a slam dunk to overturn Roe and four decades of settled law?
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But even when you're courtside at the NBA slam dunk contest, you're "there" after the fact.
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February 2016A center-parted bob and a burgundy lip make for a red carpet slam dunk.
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"This merger is not a slam dunk," said Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute.
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Conservatives predicted Walker's re-election would be a slam dunk on the back of the deal.
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Both of these producers, along with Dean Blunt, appear as remixers on the Slam Dunk volumes.
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The PSWL turtleneck is a slam dunk, with the red logo on the neck and thumbholes.
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But there is no guarantee Obamacare's new problems will necessarily be a slam dunk for Republicans.
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In a final choreographed stunt, the singer flew over the crowd to execute a slam dunk.
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Before then, the election had been widely considered a slam-dunk for the incumbent National Party.
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But even without a slam-dunk electoral win, the party could celebrate an astonishing electoral outcome.
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" Aboulafia calls the T-X trainer contract "Lockheed Martin's to lose but not a slam dunk.
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Everyone wanted mural stories, plus Emory Douglas is a legend — it seemed like a slam dunk.
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Gordon told reporters after the contest he won't be competing with the Slam Dunk competition anymore.
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And if you're an IHG Rewards member, booking at the affordable Gray is a slam-dunk.
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I'm not sure how much I did right, but reading to them was a slam dunk.
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It's really kind of shocking because this should be just a slam dunk and it's not.
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I do not believe we know enough to say that this is a slam-dunk case.
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"Stella was such a slam dunk; we knew it was going to reach our criteria," Erdman said.
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"You know kids, saying no to drugs is a real... *mimics shooting a three* slam dunk." pic.twitter.
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In 2000, Carter amazed viewers and participants alike with his inconceivable performance in the slam dunk contest.
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The sports team may win no trophies, but the deal could be a slam dunk for shareholders.
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And there's Basket Bernie and Slam Dunk Sanders, which is probably the most insider of them all.
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S.-notes trade would have made it a slam dunk even in the face of this catastrophe.
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The site is a slam-dunk pre-Clovis site with unequivocal artifacts, clear stratigraphy and thorough dating.
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" Furie's lawyers, Tompros and Don Steinberg, told Motherboard that the intellectual property case was "a slam dunk.
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"Sometimes it's a slam dunk where everyone has the same thing and you can party," Hamosh said.
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For a study to be a slam dunk, the odds of failure are usually 1 in 1,744,278.
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Delgado believed Colindres' case would be a "slam dunk" to at least get a stay of deportation.
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But history shows luring Amazon's second headquarters may not be a slam dunk for the victorious city.
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Investing in technology giants has been a slam dunk for growth-fund managers during this bull market.
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In Texas, the senate race should be a slam-dunk, bloodbath of a win for Ted Cruz.
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An easy profit is sitting there for anyone who believes that the deal is a slam-dunk.
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Nor is it anything like a slam dunk that the Giants win in both Philadelphia and Washington.
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As the Washington Post's Mike DeBonis wrote, this proposal is not a slam-dunk in the House.
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Getting a conviction this long after the alleged assault is anything but a slam dunk, lawyers say.
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But even if Mueller lays out a slam-dunk case against the president, nothing will be decided.
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Here's what else is happening: While we can't guarantee a slam dunk, today is looking mighty fine.
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"If Democrats think that trade union support is a slam dunk, they are sorely mistaken," Maravelias said.
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No. 2 Democrat Dick Durbin said it wasn't a "slam dunk" that all Democrats would support it.
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On its own, the study is hardly the slam dunk the I.A.A.F. probably hoped it would be.
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Looks like Star Wars' first-ever live-action television series is going to be a slam dunk.
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Miles Plumlee had a slam dunk waved off when he held the rim with his left hand.
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The success of basketball in China—which hosted this year's World Cup—is a slam-dunk example.
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It's a joyous slam dunk of a conceit—a pointedly absurdist sendup of misogynist visual clichés. ♦
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Local governments, schools, and nonprofits are eligible to apply for the grants, but it's no slam dunk.
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A bigger, louder Nest Hub with more features and capabilities seems like it'd be a slam dunk.
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A race that handicappers thought was a slam-dunk for Republicans is now favored to go Democratic.
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While Antietam isn't technically a loss, it should have been a slam dunk for the Union Army.
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In the case of the Paris-based Unesco, the departure was a slam dunk for President Trump.
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"This is a new generation of the game," Drummond said before competing in the slam dunk competition.
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But then again he promised his foreign policy answers in the last debate would be a "slam dunk."
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But the president might be lulled into believing the "slam dunk" advice of the "deficits-don't-matter" crowd.
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Gundlach says that's "it's almost a slam dunk" in terms of the indicator's ability to precede a recession.
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Despite standing just 5-foot-9, Nate Robinson is the NBA slam dunk contest's only three-time champion.
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That Google thought it had a slam dunk with Assistant on the mobile side hasn't helped much, either.
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It should have been a slam-dunk, said John Kasich, Ohio's Republican governor, who also backed Mr Balderson.
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The polls indicate that impeaching and removing Trump in these pivotal states is far from a slam dunk.
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While today's Switch event wasn't a total slam dunk, it's a brave person that'd write Nintendo off altogether.
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She knew that despite having forensic evidence and unbiased witnesses her case was not quite a slam dunk.
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But we will see as Mark points out, this is by it&aposs far from a slam dunk.
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I'm not saying the Army of the Dead's weaknesses signal a slam dunk for the Stark-Targaryen alliance.
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Other scientists thought the result was exciting, but would hesitate to call the discovery a slam dunk yet.
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Okay, that might not be a huge slam dunk for everyone else, but I'm certainly excited about it.
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It should have been a slam dunk for a company with a rabid and engaged online fan base.
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Opponents of the new executive order do not have a slam-dunk argument for unconstitutionality by any means.
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But even in historically liberal California, it won't be a slam dunk win for the Democratic front-runner.
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"Ask her why she blew the biggest slam dunk in the history of fucking American politics!" he said.
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But the result after nearly eight hours of testimony was far from a slam-dunk win for Kavanaugh.
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"It's really kind of shocking because this should be just a slam dunk and it's not," he said.
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Our ability to preserve the splendor and beauty of our National Park System should be a slam dunk.
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In 2000 Vincent Carter was wearing the And1 Tai Chi when he won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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Business credit cards aren't an easy slam dunk, but they're more possible to get than you may think.
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No, no, it sounds like you want to try to give some politically correct slam-dunk of this.
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Here's a dunk that Aaron Gordon did during the Slam Dunk Contest during the NBA's All-Star Weekend.
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According to Cook, it's an R+6 district, so this is far from a slam-dunk for Democrats.
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Why do so many Democrats act as though beating Mr. Trump in 2020 will be a slam dunk?
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So I read "Slam Dunk," by Takehiko Inoue, which is one of the most popular manga out there.
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The slam dunk competition, a three-point contest, a skills challenge will start on Saturday at 9 p.m.
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Walgreens ultimately acquired the company for more than $400 million — a decent outcome, but not a slam dunk.
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But this pairing of an able buyer and well-supplied seller no longer looks like a slam dunk.
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Again, this is the most plausible segment of the court's reasoning, though it is hardly a slam dunk.
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Still, it is not a slam dunk — even if the Knicks fail to win 20 games this year.
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On the surface, the results looked like a slam-dunk victory for hard-line partisans of the hard "g".
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A company in Zhejiang, eastern China, has launched a basketball-sharing service it's sure will be a slam dunk.
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" Thompson went in for the slam dunk: "Uh, I'm sure the lesbians can show you right after this panel.
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Ross has had his fair share of ASW in the past -- he won the slam dunk contest in 2013.
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"He's got all the advantages of incumbency, and so this is no slam dunk for Katie Hill to win."
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Beyond Texas getting better, there is no slam-dunk solution for the Big 22017 to quickly reverse its fortunes.
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Phil Kessel – The other slam dunk pick, Kessel has appeared in the Three Stars section more than anyone else.
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The video of him winning the slam dunk championship in high school — that is crazy how he can jump.
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" Last month Tom Wheeler, then the FCC's chairman, said reversing the net neutrality rules "is not a slam dunk.
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Byron and Magic are still close -- in fact, Magic wrote the foreword for his new book, 'Slam-Dunk Success.
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The cannabis ordinance to permit commercial cultivation wasn't a slam dunk among some local school and law enforcement officials.
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"It may not be a slam dunk to get anything done," said Matthew Miller, an equity analyst with CFRA.
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The articles by Mr. Eisinger and Mr. Gandel show that these were close calls, certainly not slam-dunk cases.
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Like it's a goddamn feat that Rioux managed to slam dunk on a kid two feet shorter than him.
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A few months ago, the 2018 electoral map in the Senate looked like a slam dunk for the GOP.
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And big tech has huge legal and lobbying teams, so the bar for a government slam dunk is high.
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The only forum where both of those play is the slam dunk contest, and Howard can't do those anymore.
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"Seeing Michael Jordan take off at the free-throw line and slam dunk was mind-blowing," Mr. Howard said.
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"It's a layup-slam dunk to suggest that we have much more downside momentum on gas prices," he added.
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As the ultimate outsider, Mercury used his slam-dunk display to personify, and amplify, Live Aid's broadest message: hope.
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Carnahan thought the film would be a slam dunk and was stunned that Hollywood backers would not climb aboard.
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Certainly, it's early and none of this suggests a slam dunk for Sanders (or any Democrat, for that matter).
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So, no slam dunk was being contemplated that would leave the president and his defenders out in the cold.
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It's easy to understand why prosecutors at Cyntoia Brown's trial in 2006 saw this as a slam-dunk case.
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And while I haven't really spent time with the Moto Razr, well, that seems like a slam dunk, too.
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In short, the posted emails in and of themselves do not constitute "slam dunk evidence" against all three men.
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I think a slam dunk was with [the Brock Turner case], where witnesses came across him assaulting an unconscious woman.
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To an outsider, the case might seem like a slam-dunk: These rules seem to be shot through with sexism.
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However, geological processes can also generate methane, so a detection of the gas is not a slam dunk for life.
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But successfully prosecuting a revenge porn case in California isn't necessarily the slam dunk her lawyers have suggested it is.
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But it isn't a slam dunk because either Apple or LG or both decided to cheap out on the resolution.
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Dany and Tyrion are a slam-dunk for a good-guy team-up, where the other two duos have…complications.
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"This is not a slam dunk by any means," Art Wheaton, a labor relations professor at Cornell University, told me.
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The New England state leans Democratic, but is no slam dunk for the party like most states in the region.
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Google's artificial intelligence is getting speedily (and worryingly?) better, as its recent slam-dunk of a human Go champion demonstrated.
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And if you add in the fact that Chrome OS is already dominant in education markets, it's a slam dunk.
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"I don't want to suggest to you that this is a slam dunk up there on the Hill," Tillerson said.
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It's almost a slam dunk that the US central bank raises rates again in December, the fourth hike of 27.25.
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Shades that seem to change based on the way the light hits them are, predictably, a total makeup slam dunk.
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Tonight's gonna be epic, with the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, JBL 3 Point Contest, and the Verizon Slam Dunk competition.
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In almost any other year, "Dunkirk" or "Darkest Hour" or "The Post" would have been slam-dunk best picture winners.
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The bottom line is that I'm not seeing a candidate who is anything like a slam-dunk for beating Trump.
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When Kelly was preparing to pitch a project to the senior leadership team, he thought it was a slam dunk.
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But the fact that the wind can come and go is hardly a slam-dunk argument against using wind power.
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LaVine has already won 2 NBA Slam Dunk contests before ... might wanna clear off some more space on the mantle.
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Having said all that, the case against Trump for willful failure to disclose is still not a complete slam-dunk.
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They may not be able to slam dunk in them, but Kylie and Kendall Jenner's game day boots sure are fly.
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Because if Obama's nominee made it to the court, this case and others could be slam-dunk for the liberal wing.
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Cherry wants sponsors to help it build the brand, just as Sprite did for the NBA and its Slam Dunk contest.
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Sporting Life's Slam Dunk EP series on out now digitally and on vinyl via his Bandcamp Follow Gary Suarez on Twitter
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Of course, Microsoft already has a $927 million contract with the DoD, so this isn't necessarily a slam dunk for AWS.
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The broader point: Even among Trump's most committed supporters, his use of Twitter is something far short of a slam dunk.
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Still, I wouldn't have called his hearing a slam dunk, particularly after hearing Simpson's answers to questions posed by the board.
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"Some people told me it was a slam dunk for its anti-aging effects," he adds, over coffee in San Francisco.
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The Recipe: Bloomin' Onion Bread This was the first recipe I tried, and I thought it would be a slam-dunk.
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Gas prices are down sharply Cheap oil and gasoline prices are no longer a slam-dunk positive for the American economy.
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That was followed by a rare slam dunk that elicited howls from the crowd and a big smile across Nowitzki's face.
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But Minnesota is no longer considered a slam-dunk blue state, the way Vermont, Hawaii and California now are, for example.
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Players, recognizing that in its potency and flash the 3-pointer is the new slam dunk, have devised increasingly elaborate celebrations.
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Mitchell put on a show at Staples Center to win the slam dunk contest and cap off N.B.A. All-Star Saturday.
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How could an initiative that would protect more than a million New York City students fail to be a slam dunk?
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The planning and execution of the Women's March was anything but a slam-dunk, and at times seemed doomed to fail.
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Albuquerque may not be as rich in tech jobs, but the highly affordable cost of living made it a slam dunk.
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Hood scored from the key, Hayward made a driving lay-in, and Hood had a slam dunk after a Sacramento turnover.
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But in the case of teenage criminals, even teenagers guilty of the most hideous crimes, there are no slam-dunk cases.
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This year, the producer stepped out on his own, signing to R&S Records, and dropping his debut LP, Slam Dunk.
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Amazon's decision to build one of its two new headquarters in New York City was supposed to be a slam dunk.
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And even though the evidence is mostly in favor of increasing school start times, it isn't a slam dunk quite yet.
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The whole setup sounds like an easy slam dunk, except for one thing: This is the Stephen King book about diarrhea aliens.
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Trump's slam dunk victories in all five states could mean that he picks up most, if not all, of those pledged delegates.
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In 2016, we profiled Sporting Life on the heels of his Slam Dunk EP, which bridged the gap between basketball and music
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This should really be a slam dunk: a larger monitor with better I/O, compatibility, and audio, all for the same price.
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Abolishing the Electoral College is a modern-democratic-principles slam dunk: Every vote should count the same, no matter where you live.
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Hitting 52 a month "seems to be a slam dunk," Russ Solomon, analyst at Moody's Investors Service, said of Boeing's rate increases.
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And the proposal itself was far from a slam dunk at the statehouse: A similar bill failed to win passage in 2009.
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A change of heart has made Dallas Mavericks point guard Dennis Smith Jr. change his mind about the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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But there's still a long way to go before their test should be considered a slam dunk, with many questions left unanswered.
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James threw a pass to himself off the backboard for a slam dunk as Cleveland raced to a 16-4 early lead.
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Wisconsin led by as many as 11 points after a slam dunk by Iverson with 9:59 remaining in the second half.
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Both will get two dunks and the player with the highest combined score is crowned the 2020 AT&T Slam Dunk champion.
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This is the revolution of esports — and the creation of a massive global league could be the industry's biggest slam dunk yet.
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The president's struggles to get his cabinet seated and backlash over his immigration order suggest tax reform is hardly a slam dunk.
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Anyone who thinks 2018 is a slam-dunk for Democrats at this point either doesn't understand our politics or is fooling themselves.
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After 18 years, Stephen Chow's hysterical satire of both American sports movies and Chinese kung-fu movies is still a slam dunk.
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LaVine is a two-time NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion, having taken the title in back-to-back years in 2015 and 2016.
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"This is not a slam dunk by any means," Art Wheaton, a labor relations professor at Cornell University, told me earlier this week.
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These conditions are a slam dunk as soon as the House officially sanctions an impeachment process; the only question is when, not whether.
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An elite golfer does not need to know the laws of physics, or a star basketball player the kinesiology behind a slam-dunk.
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Williams had billed for non-medically necessary services and wasn't a medical provider — a "slam dunk case" said the agent on the case.
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We wouldn't doubt him -- remember, this is the guy who channeled Billy Hoyle and JUMPED OVER DIDDY at the 2012 Slam Dunk Contest!
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The CIA director at that time said that the information related to weapons of mass destruction was a quote-on-quote slam dunk.
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But researchers often publish before they get the slam-dunk odds, in order to avoid getting scooped by a competing team, Seager says.
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The kid is back with another slam dunk of a comedy special, telling story after story at the illustrious Radio City Music Hall.
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Butler capped the third-quarter scoring with a slam dunk off of a remarkable alley-oop pass from behind half court by Rondo.
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While this dramatically outpaces how the iPhone performed in its inaugural year, industry experts have been hesitant to call it a slam dunk.
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But if momentum can be the wind at the back of a basketball team, it is not always a slam dunk in golf.
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Prosecutors who lack one slam-dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior, legal experts said.
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Sending an aircraft carrier group to threaten retaliation against any Iranian-sponsored aggression, real or imagined, is no slam-dunk foreign policy decision.
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Maybe if you cut a cup in my head, and I catch it in my head, and slam dunk it in the hoop.
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They wanted slam-dunk proof that Trump was involved in Russia's election hack and then, later, criminally obstructed the investigation into election hacking.
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Plenty of quality big leaguers, All-Stars and even Hall of Famers were not slam-dunk prospects who debuted at 20 or 21.
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In the final round of the slam dunk contest, in which judges award competitors' creativity, Jordan faced Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks.
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The state has served as the political redoubt of the party for decades, and the governor's office has been an electoral slam-dunk.
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Kofi Cockburn started the run with a slam dunk off a feed from Andres Feliz, and Bezhanishvili finished it with a 3-pointer.
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Even if adjusted to be temporary, the presence of deficit hawks among Republicans would make the Trump plan no slam dunk to pass.
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That cut the deficit to 39-33, but Michigan State quickly responded with a slam dunk by Gabe Brown on the next possession.
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Slam-Dunk Fashion Ms. Jaques changed from the glittering stilettos she wore with her wedding gown into glittering Converse Chuck Taylors for dancing.
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So, when Biden said he was going to interrupt on the topic of Medicare for all, I was expecting a slam dunk answer.
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For music listeners, the model was, and still is, a slam dunk proposition, and competitors like Google, Apple, and Tidal quickly followed suit.
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While support for tariffs was more pronounced among Republicans than Democrats, the issue is not turning into an automatic slam-dunk for Republicans.
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Several current and former New York City detectives said that while they use mug shot searches, they are hardly a slam-dunk tool.
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No public corruption case is ever a slam dunk, but this paper trail puts Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner in a precarious position.
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Diallo went on to beat Dennis Smith Jr. of the Knicks in the finals to be crowned the 2019 slam dunk contest champion.
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For a slam dunk, you either literally need someone to see the crime happen, or the accused person needs to admit that it happened.
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"This is definitely not a slam-dunk case," says Karin Moore, a former criminal-defense attorney and law professor at Florida A&M University.
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However, the study's authors caution that their findings, gleaned using data from two space telescopes, should not be viewed as a slam dunk case.
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However, the dry outlook is somewhat marginal and is far from a slam dunk, especially since La Niña is in a relatively weak state.
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While the technology hasn't been used to capture full games, it has already been put to successful display at the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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Cavaliers 99, Nets 97 Alec Burks threw down a tiebreaking slam dunk with 113 seconds remaining, and Cleveland escaped with a victory over Brooklyn.
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But legal experts mostly seemed to think the lengthy paper trail and extensive witness list made the case something close to a slam dunk.
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Comparing Trump to Bush or Kasich in terms of performance skills would be like pitting me against LeBron James in a slam-dunk contest.
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It's by no means the proverbial slam dunk, but it could be, at a minimum, a great moment of truth for China's real intentions.
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Again, don't expect too much slam-dunk clarity from Comey during his opening statements and a great deal of his responses to the questioning.
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In this case, cofounder Eva Shang says no algorithm is necessary to determine that roughly 143 million people have slam-dunk cases against Equifax.
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"If you compared this to the Papadopoulos and Flynn charges, this is a slam-dunk that he (Cohen) should be charged again," Toensing said.
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Markets believe a rate cut later this month is a slam dunk, and the Fed has done little to push back against that thinking.
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Instead, you grab your opponent and slam dunk them for two, or boot them in off the backboard from outside the three-point line.
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"Are you Shawn Kemp's little brother?" the 220-year-old Brown now recalls several fans asking him before the 225 NBA slam dunk contest.
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Before we have a retail product, we're going to make sure it is a slam dunk for a home cook to cook it properly.
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Another of his holdings, Valeant, has been less a slam dunk than Amazon or Apple, which is the second-largest allocation behind Restoration Hardware.
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And internally, at Marvel corporate, "Hulk" — by far, the better-known property — seemed like the slam-dunk and "Iron Man" seemed like the risk.
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Tenet, who wrote in his memoirs that "slam dunk" actually referred to something else, retired in 211; Brennan left the agency the following year.
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This is no slam dunk — especially if the woman you were dating had stronger feelings than you did, or if the roommates are close.
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Indeed, they&aposre frequented by hip locals, and the rooftop pool has killer views of the downtown skyline — a slam dunk for the &aposGram.
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Turned out she had a single digit, slam dunk no-chemo recurrence score, but she had insisted on doing three months of treatment anyway.
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"We feel very confident that integrating coworking into retail will be a slam dunk in urban areas," Jamie Hodari, CEO of Industrious, told CNBC.
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"Obviously Kontoor's much less of a slam dunk after this move, but the dividend remains attractive and it is still fairly cheap," he said.
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While it is tempting to view this recent development as slam-dunk evidence of obstruction of justice, it cannot be analyzed in a vacuum.
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With smartphone sales slowing down around the world, the Note 27 was looking like the slam-dunk Samsung needed to keep the momentum going.
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With smartphone sales slowing down around the world, the Note 7 was looking like the slam-dunk Samsung needed to keep the momentum going.
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And I think that will play a huge role, in that this is not going to be a slam dunk, whoever the president puts in.
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It's a terrifying, impossible-to-imagine situation, and it's only the beginning of Evil Genius, Mark and Jay Duplass's second slam-dunk true crime documentary.
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DeCovan Kadell "Dee" Brown wore these sneakers during the 1991 Slam Dunk Contest, when he famously won the top prize for his no-look dunk.
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The truth is we don't know what we are in for, and Democrats should not be overly confident about this race being a slam dunk.
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But it's also lost some of the features of the MateBook X Pro, and it isn't quite the slam dunk winner last year's model was.
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Seton Hall then clamped up for the next 12 minutes, increasing its lead to double-digits on a Powell slam dunk at the 9:303.
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What's important to note here is that this is not a slam-dunk, where banning advertisers or certain ads from Facebook is the inevitable outcome.
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Introducing the #DriveByDunkChallenge, in which a teen driving past a basketball hoop must pull over, grab his or her basketball and perform a slam dunk.
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Following last year's 55 5's mixtape for R&S Records, the sample-centric Slam Dunk project reveals influences from Aphex Twin to Panda Bear.
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The slam dunk contest winner and the MVP of the Rising Stars Challenge, LaVine scored a team-high 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting.
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But USB-C is a functional slam dunk, and the sooner we all get used to our brave new world of reversible versatility, the better.
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That might not be a slam dunk if that flexibility trips over third rail issues, such as endangering coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
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Unlike past years, when all signs pointed to a cold winter in the U.S., this year is not a slam dunk forecast in Cohen's view.
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The question is not a slam-dunk, however, so Jaworski named Nixon an "unindicted co-conspirator" in an apparent ploy to avoid a constitutional showdown.
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The Point: The death of a long-serving Republican senator and war hero should be an absolute slam dunk for a Republican president, politically speaking.
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It's tempting to think of the case as a slam dunk given that Cosby's basically already been found guilty in the court of public opinion.
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So far, he's gotten back eight "slam-dunk diagnoses" that the trio results revealed were new genetic changes—called de novo mutations—and not inherited.
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Laster, a 6-foot-6 senior, was 12-for-133 from the field — including a slam dunk at the final horn — and added eight rebounds.
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In other words, the outcome everyone expects and that is reflected in the current market may be less of a slam dunk than people think.
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Carr made a jump shot and a layup to start the run, and Oturu punctuated it with a slam dunk off a feed from Willis.
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Replay's technology was used in the recent National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend, mainly giving fans a 360 degree view of the slam dunk contest.
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Read: Canadians Fear Trump's Budget Will Devastate Great Lakes Slam Dunk Quiz Time: What is the most successful men's college basketball team of this century?
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It's just that in this age of quality-TV abundance, the argument for committing 10 hours to consuming them isn't quite a slam-dunk case.
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ATTENTION NBA PLAYERS: Rapper Trinidad James -- the "All Gold Everything" guy -- has a slam dunk way you can avoid being shot in the strip club.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is a slam dunk to win Russia's next presidential election in March, 2018, but that doesn't mean he's free of drama.
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And then just marvel at the slam dunk or victory lap or whatever you want to call it that is his final declaration: Oh my God!
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When it comes to naming specific drugs so many of us need and the companies that make them, this is a slam dunk target for Trump.
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The Skills Contest is the first event of All-Star Saturday Night and will be followed by the 3-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.
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Philadelphia (CNN)On paper, Pennsylvania and its 803 electoral votes look like a slam-dunk for Hillary Clinton So why isn't anyone here acting like it?
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A slam-dunk trio of harrowing misery it may seem, but in true Theroux style, he seeks to find human stories amid the seemingly inhumane backdrop.
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The $1 trillion that President Trump wants to invest in U.S. infrastructure by way of public-private partnerships may not be a slam-dunk for investors.
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Steve Ballmer's massive investment in Twitter may not have been a slam dunk, but he almost made up for that on the basketball court Monday night.
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The NBA Slam Dunk contest is a rare beast that regularly makes the leap from sports spectacle to full-on topic of pop-culture watercooler exaltation.
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Georgia Tech regained the lead with a 7-0 run midway in the second half, with Okogie's slam dunk putting the Yellow Jackets up 56-48.
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All it took for Apple to have a slam-dunk event was updating the best machines in its lineup for the first time in years, surprise!
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"That's as close to a smoking gun or a slam dunk as you'll ever come, but you're never going use that terminology per se," he said.
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It was a slam dunk for Wakanda on Saturday night, as Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman bestowed his own character's mask on Indiana Pacers' Victor Oladipo.
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Pakenham exited the room proclaiming the case a "slam dunk," only to learn, two weeks later, that the judge had taken pity on the driver. ♦
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It wasn't a slam dunk, but it showed that there's hope yet for an HIV vaccine, something many people at that point believed simply wasn't possible.
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He actively blames them for tailoring the executive order to pass judicial muster — only for him to discover that it still wasn't a slam-dunk case.
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That may suggest that no "slam dunk" evidence of obstruction of justice — the destruction of evidence, subornment of perjury, or witness tampering — emerged in Mueller's investigation.
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With traders pricing in a nearly 98% chance that rates will remain steady, that's about as close to a slam dunk decision as you can get.
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The Slam Dunk Contest, Skills Challenge and Rising Stars Challenge, featuring top rookies and second-year players, will also set the table for Sunday's main event.
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Notre Dame didn't take its first lead until Colson followed a missed shot with a slam dunk to make it 61-59 with 12:44 left.
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Diakite scored five points in 12 seconds with a three-point play followed by a steal and breakaway slam dunk, stretching Virginia's lead to 22-10.
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Before these NBA ballers suit up for the All-Star game ... see if you can guess the abs-olutely ripped player behind the slam-dunk stomachs.
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He told me Trump has a few options that could potentially earn him some lucky breaks, but nothing would be a slam dunk in today's legal environment.
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The National Republican Campaign Committee is spending at least $67,000 in TV ads in the district, suggesting that they don't view the race as a slam dunk.
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He recognizes that the slam-dunk case against Steven Birch, Bobby's rival, is a ploy to divert attention and resources away from the case against Axe Capital.
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Some top Republicans are still skeptical, however, so it's not a slam dunk — just more evidence that many of the big Obamacare stories are unfolding outside Washington.
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Colin Dixon, chief analyst of nScreenMedia, said he walked away pretty darned impressed with what Minor showed, though he said delivering remains far from a slam dunk.
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"Politically, it's just such a slam dunk—bankers aren't popular to begin with and Sloan also had to live with the sins of his predecessor," he said.
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From 2004 to 2015, the Degree Shooting Stars competition was the first event of Saturday night, meaning it started about three hours before the Slam Dunk Contest.
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"I hear smart people tell me it's a slam dunk and other people say it could have a lot of problems," Cowen analyst Charles Rhyee told CNBC.
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"We're not expecting a slam-dunk auction like yesterday, but it should be solid," said Stanley Sun, interest rate strategist at Nomura Securities International in New York.
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They think it's an easy slam dunk, trying to get someone to stumble over their words so they look like they're not confident in what they're saying.
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Without a thought, you toss the empty bottle into the tiny trash bin in your bathroom, mentally cheering yourself on for the slam dunk you just made.
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Shawn Bradley -- arguably the most posterized player in NBA history -- has an important message for this generation's slam dunk victims ... your heads are in the right place!!
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But such a partnership is no slam dunk after a tough race between the liberal allies and will not guarantee a rush of new supporters for Sanders.
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He won the N.B.A.'s slam dunk contest as a rookie in 1997, and eventually bulked up so he could keep up with bigger and stronger competition.
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He won the N.B.A.'s slam dunk contest as a rookie in 1997, and eventually bulked up so he could keep up with bigger and stronger competition.
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Harrison also celebrated the big day last year by jumping off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, which was the previous highest slam dunk record at 855 feet.
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His detractors argue that his establishment ties and constant gaffes on the campaign trail make him a liability in what should be a slam dunk for Democrats.
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"I think that Google should actually take the claims very seriously, not because any one of the particular legal arguments is a slam dunk winner," Bergmayer says.
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For companies that want to grow while presenting themselves as pro-health, pro-environment and generally with it, the plant-based trend seems like a slam dunk.
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"For now, Comcast seems to be in pole position, but it's not a slam dunk," Paolo Pescatore, a tech, media and telecoms analyst, told CNBC via email.
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The election may still go the B.J.P.'s way, but what seemed like a slam-dunk a month ago looks as if it could be very close.
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But getting a critical mass of voters to support federal grants to states and local police departments to improve school safety is a slam dunk by comparison.
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A remote-controlled drone made an appearance at the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday when it assisted on a dunk by the Orlando Magic's Aaron Gordon.
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Gordon gave Orlando its first lead since the beginning of the second quarter with a couple of free throws after his one-handed slam dunk tied the score.
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Since the Lyft settlement does not reclassify drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, it is not a slam-dunk victory for the drivers that brought the lawsuit.
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The former NBA journeyman and three-time Slam Dunk Contest champion partnered with his former teammate and two-time NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer to launch the brand.
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Nebraska had a chance to take control in the second half after Fernando missed a dunk and Roby completed a slam dunk over Smith on the Nebraska end.
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NBA's first three-time slam dunk champion Nate Robinson and WNBA player Candace Parker, for example, will suit up alongside Nick Cannon and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin.
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And it&aposs sad if she&aposs telling the truth because that&aposs how these cases are, but it&aposs not a slam-dunk at all for prosecutors.
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A hoverboard even played a central role in last weekend's NBA All-Star festivities, with one player using the device in his performance during the Slam Dunk Contest.
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But it's not the slam dunk it should be for youth hockey, because in the NHL, the law of unintended consequences is always waiting just around the corner.
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Curry scored six straight points and Draymond Green (13 points) put the exclamation mark on the Warriors' win with a strong slam dunk for a 423-93 lead.
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Analysts saw it as a potential game-changer for a poll that until now had been seen as a slam-dunk for Prime Minister Bill English's National Party.
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This morning Star Wars: The Force Awakens earned five Oscar nominations, and none of the categories seem to be as much of a slam dunk as visual effects.
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The fact that President-elect Trump enters the White House with a Republican controlled Congress does not suggest the road to tax reform will be a slam dunk.
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"Tesla's stock was pushed to ridiculous levels on the notion that the Model 3 would be a slam-dunk success," said Fred Hickey, editor of High Tech Strategist.
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Remember then-CIA Director George Tenet's infamous "It's a slam dunk" statement to the president on the likelihood of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Saddam Hussein's Iraq?
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Tennessee got a major haul, but at the end of the day, they still have to nail the picks before we turn them into slam-dunk trade winners.
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While this is not an unequivocable slam dunk confirming that Hannibal crossed there, it does represent the first tangible evidence of this notorious march recovered from the Alps.
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Curry scored six straight points and Draymond Green (13 points) put the exclamation mark on the Warriors' win with a strong slam dunk for a 101-93 lead.
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When she was in her late 20s, it became apparent to Williams that her eventual retirement someday might not be the slam dunk she assumed it would be.
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No, this is not a shot from "Dirty Dancing" ... it's NBA star D'Angelo Russell lifting his new soccer friend, Riqui Puig, up for his first slam dunk ever!!!
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After the invasion, when the W.M.D.s failed to turn up, Bush's team scapegoated Tenet over what he had supposedly called "slam dunk" intelligence to support the W.M.D. theory.
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With a backlog of nearly 600,000 cases in the system, he asked, "Why clog an already clogged court docket with a case that looks like a slam dunk?"
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Six participants take home a paycheck: Four players compete in the Slam Dunk Contest, in which each player is scored on a 0-50 scale on two dunks.
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Free front row seats to watch a teenager whose all-around flair and technical skill suggest he'll someday compete in the NBA's Slam Dunk and Three-Point contest.
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Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx wrote an op-ed piece in the Chicago Tribune, in which she says the case against Smollett was not a slam dunk.
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Metta World Peace says everyone freakin' out over LaVar Ball having his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, ditch UCLA should chill ... 'cause higher education ain't a slam dunk for everyone.
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Despite missing the game's two best players the U.S. men's basketball team are still the slam dunk favorite to return home from the Rio Olympics with the gold medal.
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Turner was discovered "thrusting" on top of the now-23-year-old woman by two graduate students, who tackled him and helped law enforcement secure a slam-dunk conviction.
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He certainly scored a slam dunk on the ring design, which features a round diamond surrounded by a cushion cut halo of smaller stones set on a diamond band.
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Although it probably thought it had a slam dunk of a case, Judge Nathan has not supported its position in the manner that most Southern District judges normally do.
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Reuters photo of the dayMax Headroom Phoenix Suns forward Derrick Jones Jr. attempts a dunk over his teammates in the slam dunk contest during the NBA All-Star game.
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Additionally, Walk the Moon will be performing their new single, "Work This Body," plus the triple-platinum "Shut Up and Dance" to set off the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest.
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" David Chao, co-founder and general partner from DCM, said he invested because "the incentive alignment is powerful and makes the value proposition to any corporations a slam dunk.
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The real slam dunk here is that everyone at the All-Star Saturday Night festivities gets a free poutine and some of Gretzky's Slap Shot Sliders, aka Slappies. 19973.
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MORE (R) appeared to be cruising to reelection, is no longer a slam-dunk for the GOP, Democrats say, especially if Trump declares war on Republicans who abandon him.
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If well over half of the busiest airports in the world have government-run air traffic control systems, should we assume that privatization is really such a slam dunk?
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It's undeniable that the U.S. should have been more cautious in acting on the CIA's "slam dunk case" — in their words — that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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There's a lot of time left before the 28 midterms roll around, but poll questions used to estimate voter turnout aren't a slam dunk for Democrats at this point.
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The conviction would have made Lloyd's case a slam dunk -- but now, with the conviction gone, Lloyd's estate will have to independently prove Hernandez was responsible for Odin's death.
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"It's not a slam dunk that it's one of the first issues out of the gate, but we think there's a case to be made for it," he said.
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Indiana took the lead early in the second half on an 8-0 run that was punctuated by Bryant's slam dunk, which gave the Hoosiers a 39-38 edge.
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Despite the breakthrough, leading Democrat Dick Durbin admitted getting 60 votes in the Senate would not be a "slam dunk," and the probability of a Trump veto loomed anyway.
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Inside the Trump administration, sources who've been briefed on the Nunes memo expect it will be underwhelming and not the "slam dunk" document it's been hyped up to be.
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Black Panther co-stars Boseman and Michael B. Jordan sat courtside at the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk championship at Staples Center on Saturday in Los Angeles.
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Mr. Tannenbaum said that borrowers with federal and private student loans could benefit from the payoff program, but he considered it a "slam dunk" for those with private loans.
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Privilege Direct Income Over Passive Income Another slam dunk for millennials might be to question the tax code's longstanding preference for passive income over pay earned by direct labor.
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Jordan failed to advance out of the first round in the slam dunk contest and scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting during the All-Star game. 3.
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"It appears from the indictment that this is a slam dunk for the prosecutors," said Nick Gravante, a white-collar defense attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner in New York.
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Yet Presbyterian trimmed the deficit to 51-219 on the strength of a 213-23 run that Michael Isler punctuated with a slam dunk with 213:26 to play.
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BONUS -- we also asked Mitchell -- the 2018 Slam Dunk contest winner -- who would win in a dunk contest between him and Zion Williamson ... and his answer will surprise you!!!
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Of the plays opening on Broadway this fall, none have had a more fraught back story than "China Doll," though it was always guaranteed to be a commercial slam dunk.
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And even though the market is expanding to include our textures and tones, it still takes forever to find a slam-dunk product lineup that doesn't cost a billion bucks.
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The bottom line: We are still in a nascent stage of new health care payment models, but it's not a slam dunk they will meaningfully lower costs or improve quality.
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Mitchell answered with an acrobatic one-handed slam dunk off a lob from O'Neale, and he added a pull-up jumper to make it 247-86 with 3:41 left.
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Add to that the Laffer Curve argument that tax cuts eventually boost revenues, and you have what the Republicans consider to be a slam dunk response to the deficit attacks.
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Ellen Hoffman, director of content strategy: After trying the new Tank Bra and various underwear styles for myself, I'm calling this another slam dunk for the San Francisco-based startup.
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But with two ingredients—clay and apple cider vinegar—this recipe from Hello Militello is a slam dunk alternative to store-bought clay masks at around 14 cents per mask.
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The molecules aren't a slam dunk, and would take perhaps a year of lab work to refine—meaning the AI wouldn't save a big pharma company much time, if any.
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Two years later, with Mahomes propelling Kansas City to its first Super Bowl berth in 231 years, handing him the team's most pivotal job seems, in retrospect, a slam dunk.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors have spent several days building what many legal experts consider a slam-dunk case against President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
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The evidence that the pesticide causes neurodevelopmental damage to children "is not a slam dunk, the way it is for some of the most well-understood chemicals," Mr. Jones conceded.
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Nonetheless, inflation remains enough of a concern that traders no longer think another interest rate cut from the Fed is a slam dunk when it next meets on October 30.
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This was the model that helped Michael Jordan win his second slam dunk contest while wearing the "White Cement" iteration and securing his first NBA MVP honors later that season.
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While the prisoner swap may be a step toward eventually making peace, it isn't a slam dunk, nor is it a substitute for Putin ordering Russian troops to leave Ukraine.
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Now, if you're asking what would make the case against Trump Jr. a slam dunk, I think it's that all of this is part of the broader Russia cover-up.
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Some predicted the debate would be a slam dunk for Hillary Clinton, with Twitter jokesters saying her debate preparation would be to catch up on "Luke Cage" and other TV series.
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"I won't say that it is a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think that there is broad support even among Democrats," MacNaughton said on Thursday.
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Nikki Haley of South Carolina to President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address was widely hailed as a slam-dunk success for the rising Republican star on Tuesday night.
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"I was happy that they found a fossil that we predicted would occur, but the evidence is not a slam dunk that it really did fit in this slot," added Evans.
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As the Fix NICS Act shifts from a slam dunk accomplishment to a plan denounced by the president as insufficient, the Senate is turning its mind to other matters for now.
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The official release for the shoe isn't until March 24, but Nike wanted to do something extra special in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Michael Jordan's slam dunk in 1988.
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Most of the presidential debates since then haven't provided that kind of stark gaffe, but they're just as effective because it's not a slam dunk the decided-but-uneasy voters need.
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Indeed, though President Trump took office with GOP control of Congress, along with Republican governors in two-thirds of the nation's statehouses, overhauling Medicaid funding won't be a legislative slam dunk.
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We're told Trump's marching orders are to deport people who have a pending visa application -- even if it's a slam dunk -- and they can come back if and when it's approved.
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It was a slam-dunk, thought Joe Bankman, a Stanford law professor and one of ReadyReturn's developers, until he received a fax from a lobbyist for Intuit, the makers of TurboTax.
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If CBS can't find a slam dunk candidate, it increases the chances that interim CEO Joe Ianniello could be named the full-time chief -- at least until a merger is consummated.
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"If we see signs of life that look like what we have on Earth, it's more of a slam dunk because we know it and we're familiar with it," says Kipping.
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In January of 2015 it scored a slam-dunk when ISIS announced that attempting to make passage through the country on the way to Syria was 'tantamount to suicide' for extremists.
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In normal circumstances, I'll jump at the chance to take an NFL team getting more than two touchdowns, and at home, in Miami, in September, this should be a slam dunk.
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Briscoe scored six of the 216 points, but the punctuation mark came on a lob from Fox to Monk for a slam dunk with :212 left for the nine-point lead.
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Independently supporting three core developers isn't going to be an automatic slam dunk, since users, startups, and miners will still need to more or less agree on what code to run.
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Two-thirds failed, including that of a Honduran woman who was assaulted and threatened for being a political activist, a case that in the past would have been a slam dunk.
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Taking action to rein in high drug prices seems to be a slam-dunk: a chance to do something that is both fair and fiscally prudent, not to mention wildly popular.
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From head coach Steve Kerr to perennial all-stars Curry and Durant, those in the Warriors have spent the past year wishing to slam-dunk this presidency sooner rather than later.
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LaVine set the tone for the scoring outburst with four straight Bulls baskets including a driving layup, back-to-back 3-pointers and a slam dunk off a feed from Dunn.
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"It has taken a long time to get this through and it's not a slam dunk, but It gives women access to the courts in these absolutely awful cases," says Dumais.
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On Saturday, some of the world's most talented basketball players will compete head-to-head in three different events: the Skills Challenge, the 3-Point Shootout and the Slam Dunk Contest.
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The rookie shooting guard beat Dennis Smith Jr. of the Knicks in the finals of the 2019 slam dunk contest, but it was a first round dunk that everyone will remember.
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Hollins says he thinks it'd be a slam dunk hire for the Bruins ... telling us the school isn't in any shape to pass on EW for the pipe dream of Calipari.
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"Coming in with William Raveis, which is a huge force, it was not a slam dunk in Manhattan," said Paul Purcell, the managing director of William Raveis' New York City office.
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President Donald Trump's choice of Alexander Acosta to replace fast-food CEO Andy Puzder as his choice for Secretary of Labor may be the biggest slam dunk of his presidency so far.
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" The 30-minute episode dives deep into what the Internet has dubbed "daddy issues" without turning any overt sex scenes, which Rossum says is a "slam dunk and a really good fit.
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York converted a steal into a one-handed slam dunk for a 56-33 lead 2 1/2 minutes into the second half, and Washington State never was closer than 19 thereafter.
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The 18th seed reached match point after Tsonga ended a rapid net exchange — which featured a slam-dunk smash and a flashy reflex volley — by swiping a backhand volley into the tramlines.
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"The chances of these folks winning their elections is still one in three or one in five," Khan said, adding that he doubted any Muslim could "slam dunk" a race this year.
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Hulu has an advantage in that it's been running a streaming service for nearly a decade and has millions of subscribers, but that still doesn't mean that this is a slam dunk.
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"The size of the settlement makes clear that she had a slam dunk case and yet her veracity was questioned publicly numerous times -- and even when other women came forward," she said.
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In any case, judging from Page's incredible self-owning performance on Up With Chris Hayes, his testimony before Congress might not be the slam dunk Trump seems to think it will be.
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Despite slam-dunk evidence — including a video taken by undercover agents — Santrich's extradition was not green-lit by authorities (there are complex legal reasons, described here) and instead he was let go.
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"We just think this is a clear slam-dunk policy position for a Democrat," he said, citing a May 6900 Morning Consult survey that found 2628 percent of Democrats supported the deal.
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A Federer in full flight had to hit three slam dunk smashes in a row to stay alive in the 11th game - an effort that lifted the roaring crowd to their feet.
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But for many in the South, a unified women's basketball team is hardly a slam dunk for inter-Korean rapprochement, much less proof that the North would ever dismantle its nuclear arsenal.
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"There is no single slam-dunk finding that explains the bizarre appearance of this individual," said Daniel G. MacArthur, a geneticist at the Broad Institute who was not involved in the study.
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Trump is determined to get his border wall and a slam dunk on his signature campaign promise, refusing to back down from his demands of $5 billion to fund his border wall.
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Your phone automatically recognizes when it should capture a photo — it can be when everybody is jumping at the same time or when a basketball player is going for the slam dunk.
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But strong initial evidence is not the same as a slam-dunk case, and Mr. Comey's testimony also made clear how far we have to go before the question is definitively resolved.
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Characterizing Trump's actions as "abuse of power" may be a slam dunk, but characterizing them as "bribery" (or, more particularly, as being in violation of the federal bribery statute) is more controversial.
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To make an obstruction case, prosecutors who lack a piece of slam-dunk evidence generally point to a range of actions that prove that the suspect tried to interfere with the inquiry.
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Though Putin's victory is seen as a slam dunk, the Kremlin is battling voter apathy over an election in which the result — another term for Putin — is viewed as inevitable by all.
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In the 210s, Mr. Stern remade the NBA's annual All-Star Game as a three-day extravaganza, with slam-dunk and three-point shooting contests that showed off the players' extraordinary skills.
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Ann Coulter thinks Democrats have a clear choice if they want to nominate a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 ... but she's confident their identity politics will derail a slam dunk.
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Perhaps that's an unfair standard for a movie; plenty of projects exist for no obvious reason beyond their slam-dunk box-office prospects, and most of them are shoddier than The Lion King.
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It's really one of the tragedies of our modern history that in the end George Tenet got overwhelmed and embraced bad intelligence and said it was a slam dunk that Iraq had WMD.
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Being unmoved by the reality that not even actual video evidence of a man being shot in the back is enough for a slam dunk conviction is not a thing to be celebrated.
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Call up his Instagram feed and you'll see everything from photos of him on the job to a bitmoji of Walker doing a glass-shattering slam dunk to celebrate a Milwaukee Bucks victory.
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It's been 3 years since Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine's epic slam dunk contest at NBA All-Star Weekend ... and the Orlando Magic star tells TMZ Sports he's ready to RUN IT BACK!
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But is this award a slam dunk for the predominantly right-wing movement that's pushed against the types of fiction that have been garnering praise and awards from the Hugo and Nebula awards?
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For royals and celebrities alike, guest-editing is a slam-dunk PR opportunity — you're given an established and familiar-to-the-public platform to highlight causes and charities that are important to you.
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Though President-elect Trump will take office with GOP control of Congress, along with Republican governors in two-thirds of the nation's statehouses, overhauling of Medicaid funding won't be a legislative slam dunk.
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Having the first Nintendo-created game for the iPhone — and one with Mario, no less — may seem like a slam dunk, but Apple isn't leaving the success of Super Mario Run to chance.
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Whether religious freedom laws are discriminatory is a matter of opinion, but it's certainly not clear that Jefferson's statute is at odds with them, making Abdul-Jabbar's claim far from a slam dunk.
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He recreated a popular segment from his show, "Jokes Seth Can't Tell," in which women deliver the slam dunk to his alley-oop on things Meyers, as a straight white man, can't say.
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They will, and when they do they'll see Denzel Washington at the very peak of his formidable powers, both as an actor and a director; and Viola Davis in an Oscar slam-dunk.
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LaVine, a 20-year-old second-year NBA player, joined Michael Jordan (1987-88), Jason Richardson (2002-03) and Nate Robinson (2009-10) as the only players to win consecutive slam dunk contests.
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Given Trump's popularity in Texas, the GOP establishment's negative view of Cruz in recent years and the high energy of the Democratic base since Election Day, Cruz's reelection is not a slam dunk.
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That means the president's ability to blame Schumer and Senate Democrats for blocking the bill rests on first getting a funding measure through the House — something that is far from a slam dunk.
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Of course, the end of Barack Obama's presidency also marks FLOTUS Michelle Obama's final days in the White House (for now), so here's a slam dunk of a GIF for the First Lady.
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As is in life, dunks naturally follow, and our greatest tool for reflection—the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest—promises to be rich in political and cultural commentary, ramped up from more innocent years.
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So Manafort would still face slam-dunk state charges for money laundering, bank fraud, state tax fraud, and other crimes if he were to receive a presidential pardon (which affects only federal crimes).
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The United States Olympic Committee said Friday that it was selecting Salt Lake City, which stood out as a predictable, slam-dunk pick in a process that also included Denver and Reno, Nev.
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The patches will be worn on the jerseys of players participating in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, MTN DEW 3-Point Contest and the AT&T Slam Dunk contest on Saturday, February 15.
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But while there were plenty of doubts raised, there hasn't been any slam-dunk evidence of anti-competitiveness, and it's anyone's guess how the judge is viewing Dish's proposed role in the merger.
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Gordon, who told the Orlando Sentinel he doesn't believe the injury is serious and is listed as day-to-day, is expected to compete in the All-Star slam-dunk competition on Feb.
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CC Sabathia is hands down a slam dunk Hall of Famer, so says a guy who tried to beat him for YEARS ... 'cause Jake Odorizzi tells TMZ Sports the Yankee belongs in Cooperstown.
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Just hours after the teen shooter at a Maryland high school died after exchanging gunfire with a school resource officer, the NRA is treating the incident as a slam-dunk for its agenda.
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The two-time slam dunk champion became an internet star all over again with his dunk on Phoenix center Alex Len and poured in 31 points on 13-of-24 shooting in Saturday's setback.
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Why it matters: What appeared to be a slam-dunk confirmation process for Kavanaugh is being derailed by the allegation — just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to vote on his nomination.
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Clark finally stops thinking of her case as a slam-dunk when the New Yorker article comes out around the same time Nicole Simpson's domestic abuse calls to 911 are released to the press.
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And investors believe it's a slam dunk that the Fed will cut interest rates next week for the first time in nearly 11 years in an effort to bolster inflation and offset trade uncertainty.
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Washington used back-to-back buckets from Morris — a 257-pointer and a slam dunk from a Wall alley-oop — to spark an 255-267 run that quickly put the Wizards ahead 266-23.
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At this sold-out performance, when Ms. Laessig and Ms. Wolfe hit a particularly athletic, flexible harmony at loud volume, they were greeted with roars, as if they'd just executed an unlikely slam dunk.
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All of which is to say that rather than a slam-dunk that provides a boost for Republicans heading into the midterms, taxes are likely be another humbling slog for Trump and his party.
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This is more a wild and noble experiment than a slam-dunk crowd-pleaser, but it is unlike anything I've ever seen on TV. Monty Python (Multiple Titles) When to watch: Now, on Netflix.
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In that sense, arguing fair report privilege isn't a "slam dunk" Kirtley says, but it is reasonable to expect government officials and intelligence agencies would in some way rely on it for their investigation.
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The suit is hardly a slam dunk: Among the obstacles will be establishing relationships between emissions and weather events, and surmounting the industry's claim that the consumers of fossil fuels are no less culpable.
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The bottom line: Kann cites analyses showing that retrofitting homes to harden against disasters is a slam-dunk from a cost-benefit standpoint, and that utility investments in resilient equipment will yield ratepayer savings.
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Mitchell followed with a 210-pointer to match his previous career high of 240 points and Royce O'Neale added a fast-break slam dunk to increase the margin to 123 with 212:291 remaining.
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However, the states' claim to standing is far from a slam dunk, so other cases are being filed as a kind of insurance policy if the one now at the 9th Circuit fizzles out.
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That's not nearly enough to make this sequel a slam-dunk — you usually want a four- or five-times multiplier to get into that range — so in fact, it's a bit of head-scratcher.
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A big infrastructure package involving direct government spending would, politically and economically, be a slam-dunk compared with other misguided investments and policies, like building a border wall or cutting taxes for the wealthy.
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Here's a list of gifts tailored according to taste and insider intel, from rookie to MVP, that are sure to slam dunk their way from under the tree and into your favorite guy's heart.
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When the truest and most honest expression of athleticism comes together with the heroics of modern sport to manifest in the form of unfortunate costumes and half-hearted props—it's the Slam Dunk Contest, y'all.
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The Cavaliers clawed back from an 11-point deficit before pulling in front on a slam dunk from James near the midway mark of the second quarter that brought the home crowd to their feet.
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The turning point came with just under 13 minutes left, when Nebraska head coach Tim Miles picked up a technical foul after Fernando backed up and knocked down Nebraska's Tanner Borchardt on a slam dunk.
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It's probably still early to call this aspect of both virtual and mixed reality a slam dunk, but the fact that successful automakers like BMW are apparently finding value in its use does bode well.
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But if you think the deal was a slam dunk at the time because of Capital Cities' 80% ownership of ESPN, consider this article about the deal from the New York Times at the time.
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Although the NBA Slam Dunk Contest as we know it started in 21, the first dunk contest was held at the ABA All-Star Game in 2815.4, the same year as the ABA-NBA merger.
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How to make 2015 feel like 1977 This morning Star Wars: The Force Awakens earned five Oscar nominations, and none of the categories seem to be as much of a slam dunk as visual effects.
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Clearly, the film — starring Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the (CGI) Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, and Josh Gad as LeFou — is a slam dunk for Disney when it comes to selling tickets.
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When America watched South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shoot and kill Walter Scott, a fleeing and evidently harmless black man, in April 2015, it looked like a slam-dunk case of shameless police brutality.
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Mitchell wasn't the most even-keeled rookie, but, out of nowhere, he still averaged 20.5 points per game, won the Slam Dunk contest, and showed he can be efficient in the game's most important areas.
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The Rockets led by six points with 1:13 to go before intermission, but the Bulls closed the gap thanks to five straight points from Zach LaVine on a slam dunk and a 3-pointer.
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This movie made a ka-zillion dollars, which justifies the sequel, so I come in like it's going to be a slam dunk and I wind up making an inferior movie to the one before.
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He has career averages of 17.4 points, 225 rebounds and 217.7 blocks a game, and at his peak, he was a singular force on both ends of the court and a slam dunk contest champion.
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By 2040, Fiat Chrysler was racking up sales with the Jeep brand worldwide, and the notion of a new midsize pickup riffing off the rough-and-ready, off-roading brand seemed like a slam dunk.
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"I could move my body well to either side while in the air and still control my shot," Yardley was quoted by Charles Salzberg in the oral history "From Set Shot to Slam Dunk" (26).
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He is far from a slam dunk, but I like him to put up his best numbers in a while against the Eagles, who yield the second most yards and fantasy points to the position.
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Clevon Brown and Scotty Pippen, Jr. combined for 11 points in that run as Brown ignited the crowd with a slam dunk that gave Vanderbilt (4-1) a 38-20 lead with 4:27 remaining.
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Georgia Tech took a 65-63 lead on a layup by Devoe with 1:35 left, but Bethune-Cookman tied it when Pope followed a missed layup with a slam dunk with 363 seconds left.
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The Point: Mueller's findings take away the possibility that beating Trump will be a slam dunk, and raise the stakes on how best for Democrats to approach the campaign to come against the incumbent president.
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"I would say it's going to be a very strong case but not necessarily a slam dunk," said Todd Aagard, a former Justice Department attorney who worked in the agency's environment and natural resources division.
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With Kavanaugh's seemingly slam-dunk elevation to the Supreme Court facing resistance from a handful of key GOP senators, McConnell convened a marathon meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans and his leadership team on Monday.
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" His comments on Indiana: "No surprise the Hoosier state was a slam dunk for Trump, because most voting happens in gymnasiums, and everyone in an Indiana gym is afraid Bobby Knight might be there slinging chairs.
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The Americans opened with a 14-2 run highlighted by a one-handed slam dunk from DeMarcus Cousins that triggered a round of high-fives from the American bench and signaled that a rout was underway.
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But the test, a first for a large U.S. shipper, is not a guaranteed slam dunk for UPS: Marken's CEO said it must figure out how to get medical insurers to pay for the new service.
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The results weren't exactly a slam dunk, but the sniffers were just as accurate in their personality assessments as the control group, who based their assessments on viewing videos of the subjects in an earlier study.
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Sport continues his quest to bridge his twin passions—basketball and music—with his athletic-themed trio of Slam Dunk EPs, released digitally over the course of 2016 on Ratking's Letter Racer and R&S Records.
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One of which is it&aposs not a slam dunk that the Kim regime survives just because we say so, unless we&aposre going to go to war to protect the Kim regime, which I doubt.
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He evaluated each down and "called the plays [he] did," one at a time: Moreover, half of play-calling is deception; when everyone in the stadium expects you to run, running is hardly a slam dunk.
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N. Investors had thought AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, if not a slam dunk, would be approved by the Justice Department and its antitrust division chief Makan Delrahim with relatively few asset sales or conditions.
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Read More: I Got Dunked on by a Basketball-Playing Robot According to Asahi Shimbun, the robot is modeled after Sakuragi Hanamichi, the main character in the wildly popular basketball anime and manga series Slam Dunk.
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Despite how clearly rattled the White House is at this point, nothing here is a slam dunk for those in #TheResistance who are waiting for something in this lothario president's checkered past to do him in.
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If the blood is a match with the blood found in Carpenter's car, it's close to a slam dunk he was the killer, but he can't be prosecuted for 2 reasons ... double jeopardy, and he's dead.
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In the N.B.A.'s slam-dunk contest one year, a contestant dunked over a mystery object draped in black that he revealed, afterward, to be a painting of himself dunking over a painting of himself dunking.
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Remember last year, when Oscar experts were certain that "La La Land" was the slam-dunk best picture winner, and when they were proven right, until that envelope snafu proved that they had been very wrong?
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LOS ANGELES — It has been 30 years since Michael Jordan launched himself from the free-throw line and slammed the ball through the hoop to edge out Dominique Wilkins in an epic N.B.A. slam dunk contest.
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Vince Carter gave the Raptors their first taste of national attention, with his jaw-dropping performance at the 943 slam dunk contest during All-Star weekend and a playoff duel with Allen Iverson a year later.
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There is very little recourse for Congress short of rewriting a 1962 law underpinning U.S. trade policy, which lawmakers are discussing but is no easy slam-dunk, according to a congressional aide working on the matter.
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Inside the List SLAM DUNK: "I believe that books are like amusement parks and sometimes kids ought to be able to choose the ride that's going to thrill them," the children's book author Kwame Alexander says.
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A basket by Shaquille Harrison brought Chicago within 76-73 with 1:12 remaining in the third quarter, but Charlotte finished the frame with a free throw by Terry Rozier and a slam dunk by Zeller.
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While making the emotional announcement during a "Gone But Not Forgotten" moment, his co-announcer gets FIRED UP about an aggressive slam dunk happening in real time on the court ... and the exchange is SUPER AWKWARD.
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"There's a strong argument that the president's conduct violates federal campaign finance law, although I wouldn't say it's a slam-dunk case," said Richard Hasen, a specialist on election law at the University of California Irvine.
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Steve Nash says the 2016 NBA Slam Dunk contest was easily one of the greatest of all time -- but it was so close between Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine that they need to DO IT AGAIN!!!
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The 2019 slam dunk contest at the N.B.A.'s All-Star weekend involved several props, but it was Hamidou Diallo's decision to abandon one that created the dunk that everyone will remember from Saturday night's competition.
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Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj closed Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards with a slam-dunk performance of "Swish Swish" that included Perry singing from the top of a huge basketball while wearing a basketball corset and earrings.
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Notre Dame led 46-39 at halftime but saw its lead shrink to 82-79 in the final five minutes when Dartmouth forward Adrease Jackson threw down a slam dunk on a feed from forward Chris Knight.
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This was all we were talking about in the first few months of the Trump administration, and it should have been a slam dunk for White House, and the fact that it was not is really amazing.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.Chicago's legendary Riot Fest is a marriage of Slam Dunk and what Reading and Leeds Festival used to be when headliners were more Linkin Park and Metallica than Kasabian and Muse.
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Thiel fight has been the talk of the tech and media world for the last week, and depending on how you want to look at it it's either a slam-dunk case or a knotted, nuanced argument.
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The series sounds like a slam dunk for lovers of noir thrillers, as it will be directed and executive-produced by Black Mirror's Jakob Verbruggen, with Cary Fukunaga of True Detective as one of it's executive producers.
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"A Hillary Clinton win gets you a slam dunk rally to be sold, a Trump win gets you a 10-15 percent plunge which should be bought," Larry McDonald of ACG Analytics wrote in a Tuesday note.
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This robot (via The Verge) is the project of a group of Toyota engineers using their spare time, to build a robot inspired by the manga Slam Dunk, which is about a Japanese high school basketball team.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost one in three of the women playing in the WNBA's annual All-Star Game in Minnesota on Saturday come from the gay community, scoring a slam dunk for diversity in U.S. sport.
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Ballmer can afford to lose a couple hundred million here and there and still have the resources and mental energy to slam dunk in front of a cheering crowd gathered to watch the basketball team he owns.
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He fended off Nazem Kadri carrying the puck from in front of his bench, all the way behind the net and then came out the other side and found Wood alone in front for a slam dunk.
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With twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats, this district should have been a slam dunk for the GOP, and the fact that we are still counting ballots is an ominous sign for their prospects in November.
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Sorry, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, the new Clippers are better than you're 'Lob City' boys, that's according to ex-NBA Slam Dunk champion Dee Brown, who says the new team is a real force.
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Despite what should have been a slam-dunk for critics of the president, the overwrought rhetoric of Democrats may have handed the modern-day Teflon Don another victory, and harmed their longer-term prospects in the process.
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Even though they failed to win a slam-dunk conviction on all 18 counts, they did enough to claim victory and performed well under enormous pressure without any leaks in their confidentiality and before a difficult judge.
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Of course, relaunching franchises is never a slam dunk -- this year's "Tomb Raider" relaunch comes to mind -- and there's a small-boned feel to this latest incarnation, which, other than Foy, features more firepower than star power.
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Read more: Aaron Gordon dunked over the tallest player in the NBA but was robbed by judges of the Slam Dunk ContestObama spoke about Kobe and Gianna Bryant's deaths at NBA All-Star Brunch: 'Nothing is more heartbreaking'
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There will be a bunch of basketball stuff going on in Chicago this weekend like the slam dunk and 3-point contests ... which are great and all, but the REAL fun is going down in Turks and Caicos!!
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Between the lines: One reason Medicaid limits are no slam dunk for Republicans in the Senate may be that not all Republicans view it as welfare: 46% see it as insurance, just as most Democrats and Independents do.
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From Gwyneth Paltrow's slam dunk of a Seven spoiler to Beyonce and Jay-Z's get-up as iconic duo Lil' Kim and Notorious B.I.G., Halloween's been a fruitful venture for celebrity costumes, and here's another humdinger for you.
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"With twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats, this district should have been a slam dunk for the GOP, and the fact that we are still counting ballots is an ominous sign for their prospects in November," Rep.
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"Everybody's thinking this is a slam dunk, and just over the last four or five months the momentum has changed on it," said David Damore, who chairs the political science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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But Roku has a great reputation for making quality, affordable TV products, and these prices seem like a slam dunk for both the company and consumers — especially if other companies start changing their own prices to match Roku's.
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Despite some early bumps in its judicial rise (the O.J. Simpson case, in particular), DNA has become the magic bullet, the slam dunk used by prosecutors coast to coast to leverage the guilty plea that avoids the trial.
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This is important to understand because although we now look at Instagram as a giant social media platform in its own right, it wasn't a slam dunk that it would become quite so dominant when it originally launched.
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Now the fact that Trump couldn't even gather basic intelligence before naming his nominee for the next director of national intelligence is a slam dunk for our enemies, who are watching this debacle play out in real time.
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Participants: • Davis Bertans, Washington Wizards • Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns • Devonte' Graham, Charlotte Hornets • Joe Harris, Brooklyn Nets • Buddy Hield, Sacramento Kings • Zach LaVine, Chicago Bulls • Duncan Robinson, Miami Heat • Trae Young, Atlanta Hawks What's the slam dunk contest?
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MILWAUKEE — Pat Connaughton has crammed enough high-flying acrobatics into his drives down the lane as a reserve guard for the Bucks that he was invited to compete in Saturday's slam dunk contest at N.B.A. All-Star weekend.
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Jeter, who helped the Yankees to five World Series titles, had been considered a slam dunk to be named to the Hall in his first year of eligibility and widely expected to join Rivera as a unanimous pick.
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Keeping Score This is definitely not the way that announcers in New Orleans — or, for that matter, commentators on the TNT network — will introduce the four-player lineup for the N.B.A.'s slam dunk contest on Saturday night.
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And yet, after what should have been one of worst weeks so far for this White House -- and that's saying something -- impeachment is not a political slam dunk for Democrats and interest in it may already be waning.
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" As for why Silverstone was the right fit for this role, Richards, who also serves as co-executive producer on the series, said that after meeting with the actress, she and the producers knew it was a "slam dunk.
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Yet even when diapering as cost-effectively as possible, she estimates her overall savings by using cloth to be somewhere in the range of $20 to $40 a month — not exactly the economical slam dunk the internet has claimed.
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One brave soul went ahead and distilled the United States' new national pastime into a simple web game in which you slam dunk over President Donald Trump over and over again until you simply lose interest in the activity.
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Passing this type of legislation should have been a slam dunk for everyone involved, and yet, once again D.C. shows the reason why progress often stalls in the U.S. is because our elected officials refuse to take a stand.
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The threat won't mean much to McConnell or Speaker Paul Ryan, who likely feel that the President and his administration have been one of the biggest obstacles to -- and distractions from -- legislation that should have been a slam dunk.
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Australia's team features 203 cm (6 foot 8 inch) center Liz Cambage, a 24-year-old who in her 2012 Olympic debut became the first woman to perform a one-handed slam dunk, in a preliminary game against Russia.
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People inside the administration argue with me that the trade provisions are important, especially for some poor countries, and that the IP and DS stuff isn't as bad as portrayed; I grant that it's not a slam-dunk case.
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So campaigners were confident of a "slam dunk" when they submitted a petition to the CBP to ban cotton from the Central Asian nation, said Eric Gottwald, legal and policy director for the Washington-based International Labor Rights Forum.
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It's a next-generation arcade of sorts that's relying on expensive new technology to attract customers, but that formula hasn't been a slam dunk for plenty of other VR startups, and it has forced the leadership to get creative.
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Other sports may fetishize innovation and change — set shot to jump shot to windmill slam dunk; single-wing to shotgun to West Coast offense — but the fight world mostly tries not to forget what it knew in bygone days.
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Why it matters: Surprise bills were about as close to a slam-dunk as Congress gets in health policy, and lawmakers' failure to get such an easy thing across the finish line doesn't bode well for other, harder priorities.
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I think there are now legitimate charges that can be brought based upon conspiracy laws and campaign finance laws, but it would be a mistake to characterize any of this as a slam dunk for a couple of reasons.
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But with a new lawyer, and the intense international attention on some of the flaws in the Japanese criminal justice system, "it's increasingly looking like it's not a slam dunk," said Stephen Givens, an American corporate lawyer in Tokyo.
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When Pedranos, as the townsfolk are called, became acquainted with Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and the diminutive slam-dunk champion Spud Webb — after cable television arrived — baskets were put up on what for several years remained a dirt patch.
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A former N.B.A. rookie of the year and slam-dunk contest winner, he has been one of the league's most popular and marketable players in recent years, appearing in countless N.B.A. promotions and lighthearted commercials for a bevy of sponsors.
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And that's not a slam dunk: There's already been plenty of public discussion from current senators about whether Exxon Mobil CEO Tillerson is an appropriate choice to be secretary of State, especially because of his connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Hyde-Smith's comments have turned that race, once seen as a slam-dunk for Republicans, into a potential nail biter that required a last-minute campaign visit by President Donald Trump, as a slew of corporate contributors backed away from her.
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Carrick Felix and Dennis Schroder are on the short list of other ball-players with a skater past—which makes him perhaps the only person out there who could pull off a certain original offering for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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The limited series examines the case through the prosecution and defense teams, giving an unvarnished at the little mistakes, misjudgments and miscalculations that turned a seemingly slam-dunk conviction into a dramatic legal saga with what many consider an unhappy ending.
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It's a slam-dunk — the perfect opportunity for Trump to show Americans and the world that not only is he a capable leader, he's even more savvy at diplomacy than Barack Obama You might already see where this is heading.
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Placed on the opposite side of the wall from the exhibition's namesake, Paul Pfeiffer's 1999 video work Fragments of Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon), also features an image of a professional basketball player, crying out after, I assume, making a slam dunk.
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G Zach LaVine, MVP of the Rising Stars Challenge and winner of the slam dunk contest during All-Star Game weekend, entered Friday's game averaging 16.3 points in his previous 10 games and shooting better than 50 percent from the field.
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Penguins: 96 (113 per game) Blue Jackets: 62 (3.88 per game) Analysis: This one seems like a slam dunk when we again use the laws of mathematics, but what happens when we consider the eras in which these teams played?
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If we were grading the HomePod on its sound performance alone it would be a slam dunk...But we aren't grading it on just its sound quality and neither will anyone else - and that's where it all starts to disappoint.
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For a variety of reasons, the mixed track record of rebuilding projects suggests that the $1 trillion that President Donald Trump wants to invest in U.S. infrastructure by way of public-private partnerships may not be a slam-dunk for investors.
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With Spielberg helming such a cast (which also includes Sarah Paulson, Bradley Whitford, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Zach Woods, Michael Stuhlbarg, and others I've doubtless missed), The Post seems on paper like an obvious slam-dunk.
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After wading endlessly through Sports Twitter PR "jokes," I discovered that perhaps the only thing you can take solace in today is this delightful video of a Denny's Pancake getting violated sexually and physically during the NCAA slam dunk contest.
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With the score 63-61 to the South American side late in the game, their playmaker Facundo Campazzo scored twice in quick succession and then laid on an assist for Patricio Garino to seal the contest with a slam-dunk.
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So while it doesn't change the fact that Don Jr., the Spaulding Smails of the White House, was willing to meet with a Russian offering dirt on Hillary, it's not a slam dunk to me that she's a Russian agent.
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DeRozan offered reprieve with Slam Dunk Contest theatrics, improved shooting and ball-handling, and glimpses of an All-Star future, the hint of a spark that if nothing else, the Raptors had a piece to keep building with and around.
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StockX sales data for a pair of Adidas Crazy 97 EQT Kobe Bryant 1997 Slam Dunk Contest sneakers revealed that the pair, which had previously sold for around $200, was selling for over $1,000 following the news of Bryant&aposs death.
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Doing so, though, will not be a slam dunk, for Quarles will need the support and cooperation of his fellow board members, as well as Fed staff as he assumes direct responsibility for leading the Fed's regulatory and supervisory activities.
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He grabbed 27 rebounds and scored 29 points, the last two on a slam dunk — a shot the N.C.A.A. had banned in 1967, ostensibly to prevent injuries, although many believed it was to curb the scoring advantage of big men.
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"I've been told at the time there was a quota system in the league," in which teams "may have wanted only two or three blacks," Ramsey told Charles Salzberg for the oral history "From Set Shot to Slam Dunk" (1987).
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But given his strength, insane athleticism (let us never forget that he won the Slam Dunk Contest as a rookie, wearing a Vince Carter Raptors jersey), and ability to change speeds whenever he wants, these feel like habits he'll eventually overcome.
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The 37-year-old missed easy slam-dunk smashes, she belted the ball wide while on break point and glared down on the net after yet another of her shots got tangled up at the bottom of the black mesh.
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Which leads us to the biggest slam-dunk of them all: Your best picture: "La La Land" The contenders: Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Hidden FiguresWhy La La wins: This one's in the bag.
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The NBA Slam Dunk Contest defending-champ, 21-year-old Orlando Magic player Aaron Gordon, was set to perform one of the craziest dunks yet, a high-flying drone-assisted shot that relied on the most intimate of communications between man and machine.
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I've seen a lot of people assume the X will be an unambiguous slam dunk in this regard, saying the device has a bigger screen than the iPhone 8 Plus in a body close to the size of the regular iPhone 8.
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Among the current crop of offerings, Amazing Stories feels like close to a slam dunk, because if the combination of Spielberg and nostalgia can make Ready Player One a box office success story, then, well, surely it can work on anything, right?
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"The market is expecting more than a single cut (this year) and if the Fed implies that that's not a slam dunk it's going to have implications for the market," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana.
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Multiple lawsuits claiming the government violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by not paying workers on time have been filed in the wake of the shutdown, and the lawyers in those cases and experts expect a legal slam dunk for the workers.
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"If this is true, this is plain, slam-dunk, criminal obstruction of justice (18 U.S.C. 1505, 1512), subornation of perjury (18 U.S.C. 1622), conspiracy (18 U.S.C. 371) and likely aiding and abetting perjury (18 U.S.C. 2)," he added on Twitter Friday morning. Rep.
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He never made an All-Star team, but is one of just 11 players in NBA history to be invited to both the Three-Point Competition and the Slam Dunk Contest; he finished eighth and sixth, respectively, which is absolutely the point.
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"I think by the end of that weekend we knew it was a slam dunk," said Mr. Mateo, who grew up in Medford, N.J., and whose parents now live in Collingswood, N.J. Back in Manhattan, they deepened the grooves of their new relationship.
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"It would be no slam dunk even to get a public option through Congress," said Ms. Loughran, adding that Ms. Warren's full-throated support of "Medicare for all" had made her more interested in centrist candidates like Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar.
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Johnson said he and the other researchers were taken aback at "how much of a slam dunk the logic of this could be" - though they emphasized that other forms of flood mitigation, such as levees, dikes and flood walls, remained important as well.
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" First on CNN: Trump's Cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it "Yet he would make the reader assume it was a slam dunk," Collins complained again about the WSJ writer, before ending the email with: "Thanks for clarifying. Chris.
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Or in the case of Hillary Clinton, it&aposs a slam-dunk for any prosecutor and if we&aposre going to apply the law like we did to Kristian Saucier and others, it should have been applied here and he should have said it.
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Though we don't have a slam dunk solution, medical researchers advanced our understanding of this virus, its effects, and how to protect our babies tenfold over the past year, demonstrating the incredible things we can achieve when we put all our scientific effort into it.
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Pell's lawyer Robert Richter, a theatrical 72-year-old well-known in Australia after taking on the defense in some of the country's most high-profile criminal cases, had been confident since the pre-trial hearings that this time he had a slam dunk defense.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It seemed the slam-dunk emerging markets trade of the year - an economy starting to grow after a two-year funk, rising oil prices, and above all, a friendlier White House that was expected to lift punitive curbs on investment and fundraising.
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To their credit, Stern and Silver have never stooped to a once common and paternalistic contention that a year or two at Slam Dunk State was a preferred social or academic pathway to young adulthood — a rationale seldom mouthed in sports more populated by whites.
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Pamela Devata, a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, said the case is not a slam-dunk victory for consumer reporting companies, but it will help employers and background screening companies facing claims of FCRA violations.
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The fill-in front office was there for the slam dunk deals, such as trading the free-agents-to-be, infielder Asdrubal Cabrera and closer Jeurys Familia, or to accept should a desperate rival attempt to overpay for one of the team's talented pitchers.
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Meanwhile, if you're reading the New York Times or watching CNN, you're getting the sense that the case against Trump is a slam dunk, with multiple people having heard the president directly pressure his ambassador to the European Union to pursue a bribery plot.
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So even as Democrats push what they see as a slam dunk case on Ukraine or on Russia, they must balance the desire to defeat a political foe with what will be acceptable to voters who go to the polls in less than a year.
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" For his part, Kjellberg looked back and forth at the two maps while on the phone before concluding Berman would have "a pretty good argument that he doesn't infringe on copyright because there are some very substantial differences," but added it's "not a slam dunk.
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Foreign workers once considered to have slam-dunk immigration cases — an internationally recognized physicist, an Alzheimer's disease researcher, a biologist doing "cutting edge" work on vaccine development — are now finding themselves tied up in extra requests for evidence to prove their skills are truly specialized.
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For example, just as the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the rest of the intelligence establishment are convinced Putin is behind the attacks, they also believed it was a slam-dunk that Saddam Hussein had a trove of weapons of mass destruction.
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But now that he has a new lawyer and has focused international attention on the Japanese criminal justice system, Mr. Ghosn's case is "increasingly looking like it's not a slam dunk" for prosecutors, Stephen Givens, an American corporate lawyer in Tokyo, told Mr. Dooley.
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Existential anxieties aside, it was a banner year for hip-hop and R&B, from the slam dunk return of A Tribe Called Quest to Beyoncé and Solange exploring the themes of race, family and love on two of the most important pop records of the decade.
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It might not be as aesthetically pleasing, but it matches, and even exceeds, some of the specs of my current laptop (built-in Ethernet, anyone?) If you're in the market for a mid-range laptop, I would consider this a slam dunk for Acer's asking price.
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He went on to list some of Kobe's personal achievements in the NBA -- including setting the record for 18 consecutive All-Star appearances, 4 All-Star MVP Awards and his famous Slam Dunk Contest appearance in 1997 ... for which he took home the 1st place prize.
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For Jordan and new co-investor Declaration Capital — the family office investing the personal wealth of David Rubenstein, who co-founded and serves as co-executive chairman of the multi-billion-dollar private equity firm, The Carlyle Group — investing in esports looks like a slam dunk.
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Why it matters: Harrison, the first African American chairman of the state's Democratic party, doesn't believe Graham's re-election is a "slam dunk" because he may have alienated moderate voters and conservative Democrats by strongly aligning himself as a Trump ally in Congress, per the Washington Post.
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The casting of one of cinema's best-ever scream queens on a show titled Scream Queens was a slam dunk, and Curtis proved game for the role, wholly embracing all the aspects to her character, Dean Munsch: sly, weird, often raunchy and just a little psychopathic.
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In one of the most riveting slam dunk contests in recent years, LaVine and Gordon went toe-to-toe in the first two rounds of the final round then needed a pair of tie-breakers, where the former sealed it with his fourth consecutive perfect 50 score.
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It's also an element that can be controlled: For example, a short basketball player may not have the height to slam-dunk, but if they're a good communicator, they can bring the best out of the team -- and perhaps get someone else to do the dunk.
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The ESPN job isn't a slam dunk but, if done well, it would be a feather in the cap for that person and make them a strong contender to succeed Iger (although there might be others like James Murdoch, as well as outsiders, contending for it).
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Mitchell is fearlessly willing to splash color on offensive possessions that crap out by hijacking them with his Slam Dunk Contest-caliber bounce; the Jazz have a stable of capable wings who can make rotating defenders look silly by attacking closeouts and running secondary pick-and-rolls.
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So even just as a negotiation tactic, threats on steel imports are risky and quite likely to alienate friends of the US. It's also worth noting that this is by no means a slam dunk in terms of job creation, even if other countries don't retaliate.
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Washington (CNN)It was presented as a bipartisan slam dunk; that rarest of moments when President Donald Trump was apparently swayed by letters of support from over 27 members of Congress, including his nemesis, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, as well as dozens of legal experts.
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While the 218 votes needed in the House to get the ball rolling remain likely, it is no longer the slam dunk that Republicans had with previous bills to repeal the law, when lawmakers knew their efforts would die in the Senate or on Mr. Obama's desk.
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But the evidence gathered so far, one official said, "isn't a slam-dunk," deliberately using the phrase that George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director in 2003, came to regret when he employed it to argue, incorrectly it turned out, that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction.
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This past weekend, something kind of incredible happened; basketball aficionados from across the globe were able to don high-tech goggles to live-stream stereoscopic virtual reality of a highly paid athlete receiving a bounce pass from a custom-designed drone to perform a highly technical slam dunk.
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And after seeing her go from thorn-in-everyone's-side to heartbroken sweetheart on Colton's season, to one of Hannah's Angels on the latest season of The Bachelorette, Demi is not only a slam-dunk choice for Bachelor In Paradise, she's potentially the next queen of the beach.
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Where the prosecution is presented as obstinate, naïve and arrogant (lead prosecutor Marcia Clark, played by Sarah Paulson, calls the case a "slam dunk" and remarks coolly that Simpson "practically did [her] job for [her]"), Mr Simpson's legal counsel introduces intrigue into the narrative and propels it forward.
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Metacritic score: 59/100User score: 2.9/10The 11th studio album from the beloved and meme-able DJ Khaled has a ridiculous number of (what should hypothetically be) slam-dunk features: One song is anchored by Travis Scott and Post Malone, while yet another features Jay-Z, Future, and Beyoncé.
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Arizona could go blue Republicans recognize that traditional GOP states are no slam-dunk in a year when polls show voters backing Democratic control of Congress by wide margins, including a Monmouth survey last week that shows a whopping 15-point preference for Democrats on the generic ballot.
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He was also named to eight All-Star teams, won a Rookie of the Year Award, won a slam dunk contest and averaged 25 or more points a game in four different seasons (and 17.7 points a game for the entirety of his career, which is at 20 years).
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Self-driving car development mostly happens in the states that have been friendliest to it — especially California and Arizona — and it's easy to envision some states banning self-driving cars long after they become commonplace in other states, especially if the safety case for them isn't a slam-dunk.
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The Hawks began to chip away in the third quarter and tied the game at 72-72 on a John Collins basket with 33 seconds left, then regained the lead when Len closed the quarter with a slam dunk for a 74-72 lead to start the fourth quarter.
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It's not a slam dunk: Justice Kennedy, for instance, has ruled in the past that there are some circumstances under which courts can review immigration policies, and Justice Gorsuch's pre–Supreme Court track record indicates he's also skeptical that the federal government has unlimited authority over individual rights in immigration cases.
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Aides close to Clinton say that while she feels a deep connection to the state -- she represented it for eight years, now lives here and has headquartered her campaign in Brooklyn - she isn't approaching the contest as a slam dunk and is well aware of Sanders strength in New York.
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"Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have some kind of rapport, and that's a good thing, but if you see the way the U.S.-China trade negotiations have gone, it's never going to be a slam dunk for the U.K. This is going to drag on," he told CNBC earlier this week.
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But Milwaukee, with its pace-and-space offense, is the embodiment of the modern N.B.A. The Bucks play much faster, and Toronto will have to deal with one of the best open-court players in the league, Giannis Antetokounmpo, trying to limit his eurosteps-to-slam-dunk combinations in the paint.
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The final score could have easily gone to Wilkins, but Jordan was performing in front of a hometown Chicago crowd, which "surely had some influence on the slam dunk judges, and galvanized his All-Star teammates, to say nothing of their considerable effect on The Flying Machine himself," The Times reported.
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While Tlaib's booing may not have been the perfect response, you can understand the frustration among the left toward Clinton, who not only lost what everyone in the Democratic Party assumed was a slam-dunk election in 2016 but has spent the last 3+ years blaming everyone but herself for it.
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He's obviously a huge character in the comics, but that doesn't make him a slam dunk for the show — and I think we've seen how a broadly written caricature, seemingly created only to pander to comics fans, can crater a TV show when everything is upended simply to put him in the spotlight.
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Bernie or bust: Sanders supporters vow to hold out "While it might be a 'slam-dunk' that millennials soon will be the largest generation in the electorate, it will likely be a much longer time before they are the largest bloc of voters," wrote Pew Senior Researcher Richard Fry, who authored the report.
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While the technology could potentially have a broader usage than sports broadcasting, it has been used to-date to enable fans to get a 360 degree view of key plays and was particularly useful at the NBA All-Star Weekend recently where it was on display for the popular Slam Dunk contest.
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That's right, Lillard got served a slam dunk of a legal threat from Cash Money Records (where hoop dreams do NOT come true) because of his little preseason warmup project, a rap album called The Letter O, which features the likes of Juvenile, Jamie Foxx, Raphael Saadiq, and—you guessed it—Lil Wayne.
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While the regulatory environment has changed with the new administration, Carter said it's not a slam dunk, and any potential transaction would need to include a hefty break-up fee if it ended up being blocked—a major downside to T-Mobile, which knows a thing or two about break-up fees.
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The assumed idea was that Wolf-Hunkeler would "roll on water," but reported technical difficulties that hampered the effect caused it to garner punny and pithy headlines like artnet News's "Maurizio Cattelan's Wheelchair-on-Water Performance Is More Dunk Than Slam Dunk" and incited the discussion of his possible exploitation of Wolf-Hunkeler.
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In one moment, he was leading the break in transition and finishing with a floater; in another, he was crossing over a defender in the halfcourt; and in another — the slam dunk that won him the crowd's approving roar — he took off from just outside the paint and was fouled on the way.
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The overall win could easily have gone to Wilkins, but Jordan was performing in front of a hometown crowd in Chicago, which "surely had some influence on the slam dunk judges, and galvanized his All-Star teammates, to say nothing of their considerable effect on The Flying Machine himself," The Times reported.
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His status as a global progressive rock star scared off his domestic rivals, who struggled to find opponents who might unseat him: Several prominent Conservatives and New Democrats either retired from politics or passed on leadership campaigns, as the common wisdom in Canada had Trudeau as a slam-dunk for a second term.
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The CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft was supposed to be a slam dunk—a contest that, given the company's reputation in space systems (as a partner in United Launch Alliance and one of the major contributors in building and sustaining the International Space Station), would have seemed to have been Boeing's to lose.
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But her slam-dunk portrayals of real and fictitious killers — the convicted murderer Aileen Wuornos from "Monster," Imperator Furiosa in "Mad Max: Fury Road," Ravenna in "Snow White and the Huntsman" and now a merciless hand-to-hand combatant in the new "Atomic Blonde" — all suggest a woman who does not easily suffer fools.
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This obviously isn't ideal for Waymo, which seemed to have a slam dunk case against Uber when it first announced in February that one of its former employees, Anthony Levandowski, had walked out of the door with tens of thousands of documents related to lidar development and gone on to lead Uber's self-driving car team.
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But if your job is trotting the globe, banking on an athlete or a zone to layup a world of hop dream possibilities, fans will raise the roof when you raise up to the roof and sink a shot that's kind of an air ball and a free throw and a slam dunk all at once.
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The problem is that the Mueller investigation could wind up uncovering such slam-dunk evidence of Trump committing a crime that Democrats would pretty much have to start impeachment proceedings—think the equivalent of the "smoking gun" tape from the Watergate scandal, a recording of Trump personally admitting he's aware of illegal activity and endorsing it.
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Morose lyrics, melancholy tunes, and all that negative energy is tied to fuzzy, crackling guitar noise that keeps threatening to crumble apart but somehow just barely skates through in one piece, the perfect metaphor; the slam-dunk power-chord exercises that punctuate the record are framed by quieter, jaggedier layers of acoustic pluck and electric whine.
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Again, there's just almost no evidence of ... Well, I shouldn't say ... There certainly have been instances of CEOs being drummed out for one transgression or another, I'm not saying people don't care and I'm not saying that it's a slam dunk that Kalanick will be the CEO when this company goes public, but it wouldn't shock me.
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Triggering a rules change to confirm Gorsuch is a slam dunk, they add, because the future makeup of the Supreme Court was a major issue for voters in 2628, the nominee is a well-qualified 28500-year veteran of the 6900th Circuit Court of appeals and the vacant seat belonged to the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
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The latest allegation called a "slam dunk" followed a BuzzFeed story that special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE has proof that Trump told his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.
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Raptors was a second-year player for the Raptors when he won the N.B.A.'s slam dunk contest in 2000, and it was a seminal moment for a lot of Canadian children — like Jamal Murray, who was just 3 years old at the time and told me that the dunk contest was one of his earliest memories.
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Americans might distrust the C.I.A. and wince when recalling its verdict that Hussein's nuclear, chemical and biological capacity was a "slam dunk," but even Democrats might be seduced by Mossad's reputation and susceptible to Mr. Netanyahu's mishmash of stale reporting, truisms and outright hucksterism, especially given the credibility the current Israeli government enjoys in key constituencies.
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The Supreme Court has always been more likely to side with the federal government in this case than the lower courts are, but that doesn't mean the case is a slam dunk for the administration — or that the Court will decide to take it up this year at all, rather than taking it up next session when Obama is already out of office.
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The main event of Saturday night will be the Slam Dunk Contest, which will feature Miles Bridges of the Charlotte Hornets, John Collins of the Atlanta Hawks, Hamidou Diallo of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Dennis Smith Jr. of the New York Knicks face off to see who can come up with the most creative and difficult dunks of the night.
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Taking its cues from such movies as "Hidden Figures" and "Green Book" — with a little "Shawshank Redemption" thrown in with a piquant flourish — "The Banker" is the kind of mainstream, old-fashioned movie that gives middlebrow a good name: It may not be a solid-gold slam-dunk, but it delivers on the audience's investment, with minimum risk and modest interest. PG-13.
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The catch is still that you'll need to use the included, folding retroreflective game board, which could easily limit where and when you'll be able to play — and maybe price, because $299 just gets you enough for one player, when you'll probably want to have four for the kind of multiplayer dungeon crawling adventures that seem like a slam dunk for the system.
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To be fair, it was a very close election, and that's what most of the polls said, and you had things like the Times meter and Nate Silver stuff that if you read it in a certain way, made you feel that it was going to be a slam dunk for Hillary, but if you go back and look back ... There was caution.
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