Two things worth noting about this rather flabby trial balloon.
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Or float a trial balloon that might serve him later?
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WAS THAT REAL OR JUST SORT OF A TRIAL BALLOON?
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We are in the trial balloon phase of tax reform.
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But today, BMW is sending up the industry's latest trial balloon.
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But his trial balloon was shot down quickly by Republican activists.
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"It looks to me like yet another trial balloon," Wyden said.
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"Barack Obama is Kenyan" was his trial balloon; so then Mrs.
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But then the White House publicly struck down the trial balloon.
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To me, this means that Lynch's agent is floating a trial balloon.
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One day there is a trial balloon for a value-added tax.
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His trial balloon triggered a backlash among some top New Hampshire Republicans.
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There was a trial balloon floated of the governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval.
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Float a trial balloon in the shape of the popular Nevada Republican Gov.
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And even a Stacey Abrams trial balloon can't save him from that reality.
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The trial balloon was shot out of the sky in less than a week.
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To be sure, Yellen's speech is at this stage probably only a trial balloon.
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" Asked whether MBS is floating a trial balloon, the ambassador said, "No, no, no.
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And in Hollywood, that trial balloon is usually followed, sooner or later, by a comeback.
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The auto lending discrimination rollback is a trial balloon, and it just started to fly.
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What it says about the future: This definitely looks like a trial balloon for Disney.
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Was it a trial balloon to see if Congressional Republicans might be open to it?
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It is uncertain whether Maillard's trial balloon will gain traction at home or in Brussels.
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But on Thursday, some sources sent up a trial balloon for ousting him to MSNBC.
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Kupperman's lawsuit was widely viewed as a trial balloon for Bolton, who shares the same lawyer.
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Given that logic, the best approach might be to ignore Trump's trial balloon (so stop reading!).
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To be honest: If it's a coordinated trial balloon, it's a very weird way to float it.
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NASA's trip to the Nasdaq stock exchange, then, can be seen as a sort of trial balloon.
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"This is a trial balloon," said Dan Fuss, vice chairman of Loomis Sayles, which holds GO bonds.
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Trump is launching a trial balloon to congressional Republicans to see what he can get away with.
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By March 2017, the White House's sanctions relief trial balloon had wilted amid opposition from congressional leaders.
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But just because the Sandoval trial balloon collapsed within 24 hours of launch doesn't mean it won't happen.
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This is very obviously a trial balloon to see what the reaction to jersey ads will be like.
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This could well be a trial balloon to gauge the ferocity of expected pushback from influential China hawks.
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Discerning the difference between a real policy initiative and a bullshit trial balloon has been a full-time job.
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And for Pence, floating Clinton's marital troubles could lay the groundwork for Trump as a kind of trial balloon.
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"That may have been a trial balloon to see how successful an attack on Hillary Clinton would be," Ridout speculated.
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All in all, the crash was ignited by a measly trial balloon, but the foundation of leverage had been laid.
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The talk was meant as a trial balloon, intended to see how markets would react to the hint of normalization.
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Far more likely is that Trump was floating a trial balloon to change the national conversation and inflame the base.
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The Trump administration had requested $18 billion in cuts to domestic agencies in a trial-balloon budget floated in March.
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In March William Hague, a former party leader, launched a trial balloon in a newspaper article calling for an early election.
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The N.F.L. has used the Thursday night package as a trial balloon, keeping contract lengths short and experimenting with digital partnerships.
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"Apple is using this case as a trial balloon in a new angle to crack down on jailbreaking," the company said.
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The idea of a bridge more than 20 miles long may be no more than a trial balloon by Mr. Johnson.
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In the minds of Spencer, Heimbach, and many others in the alt-right, Trump was a mere trial balloon for their ideas.
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Some pundits believe his filing in Alabama may be nothing but a trial balloon to see how his candidacy would be received.
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The major trial-balloon subplot — and by far the most successful — is a long historical flashback interwoven with the contemporary goings-on.
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Bernie Sanders share their private equity criticisms during Wednesday's presidential debate, thus elevating it in voter minds, despite yesterday's deflated trial balloon.
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And both Collins and Romney said they will not move to immediately dismiss the trial, essentially blowing up Trump's Twitter trial balloon.
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Trump floats testimony trial balloon While there have been no hearings since Friday, the political battle over impeachment has been raging unabated.
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The Twilight Zone going black & white could just be a one-off gimmick, but I'd rather look at it as a trial balloon.
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Lee Siu-yau, assistant professor of Greater China studies at the Education University of Hong Kong, suspects the request was a trial balloon.
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Mr. Trump first floated the Peace House in a morning tweet that felt like a trial balloon or even an exercise in crowdsourcing.
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"Apple is using this case as a trial balloon in a new angle to crack down on jailbreaking," said Corellium CEO Amanda Gorton.
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"Epstein viewed the 2012 gifts as a trial balloon to test MIT's willingness to accept donations following his conviction" in Florida, MIT said.
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Even more intriguingly, some GOP lawmakers are floating a trial balloon — let's combine tax cuts with infrastructure spending, which could appeal to Democrats.
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If Grenell gets past the trial balloon stage, and is formally announced as the administration's NATO ambassador pick, then we'll have our answer.
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It's hard to know whether the stuff he says is strategic trial-balloon floating or just whatever popped into his mind at that moment.
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Or maybe more, if you consider the administration's trial balloon, recently floated, to mobilize 100,25.5 National Guard troops and add them to the mix.
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It was part of the plan, he said, to gauge the public's response, like a trial balloon, to see whether a deal was worth doing.
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While suddenly throwing up a trial balloon of cooperation, the White House is girding for a period of political confrontation once the Mueller probe ends.
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Leaders of other major world powers such as France, Germany and Italy have shut down Trump's renegotiation trial balloon, saying the pact cannot be renegotiated.
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It could, in some sense, be a trial balloon from the Clinton camp, truly meant to gauge what the reactions for another run would be.
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Tacking on a Mexico-specific tax is unlikely to get much traction, as we saw with Spicer's swift walkback of the trial balloon earlier this year.
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And the pattern over the last year has been clear: When MoviePass floats a trial balloon, it will likely be a sign of things to come.
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"Rumors about this extension are a clumsy trial balloon, the different options will be discussed on April 10 and nothing has been decided," the source added.
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Tuesday, New Hampshire voters get to decide if they want to patch up the big orange Trump trial balloon or let more air out of it.
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A source close to the situation tells Axios that the leak reads like a "trial balloon," after President Trump's past four picks failed to pass muster.
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I think Sessions's stance on this is best read as a threat of asserting executive privilege, or to use a less bellicose image, a trial balloon.
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Hence the arrival on the morning of the NBA draft of a trial balloon by his buddy, Charley Rosen, laying out the case for trading Porzingis.
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Everything from the aggressive trial balloon, complete with book release, to the unusually large amount of time spent identifying precisely which Democratic ideas he finds unacceptable.
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Openly contemplating the firing of the special counsel feels like a precursor to the actual act, a trial balloon floated to see how it might land.
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Our sources say they are convinced some of the singers wanted to perform but felt they needed to float a trial balloon to judge public reaction.
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The administration has shown its willingness to muzzle employees or scrub information from public websites, only to reverse course when the trial balloon gets too much attention.
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Image: APAs personal goal that many interpreted as a trial balloon for a presidential campaign, Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last year traveling to all 50 states.
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A spokesman for Jeb Bush dismissed it as the "90th Bloomberg trial balloon", as he has a long habit of exploring presidential runs and then stepping back.
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Mr. Perriello said Mr. Trump "ran the most viciously racist campaign of my lifetime," and cited the president's "trial balloon" about using the National Guard for deportations.
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The whole pattern has the appearance of a trial balloon, a test to see how the world reacts to the idea of Harvey Weinstein appearing in public again.
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Unless the idea is to trial balloon it privately within the Republican conference, so they can hide their designs from the public in the event it's a nonstarter.
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Front Burner The French Cheese Board, which operated a storefront briefly as a trial balloon in the garment district, has returned with a more elaborate setup in SoHo.
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But this trial balloon was also a bid to appeal to those suburban white women who are uncomfortable with Trump because they see him as racist and bigoted.
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" Plaintiffs' lawyers and addiction specialists began floating trial balloon solutions, all the more remarkable given that, as one lawyer said, "we're just at the beginning of the beginning.
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"I think they are going to create mischief, and I think this little trial balloon was an example of that mischief," he said, referring to the Montreal meeting.
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Huawei's trial balloon for a compromise comes just weeks ahead of the White House's plans to engage in a fresh round of high-level trade talks with China.
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Days earlier, the Trump White House had floated a trial balloon: If Planned Parenthood would quit performing abortions, it could keep roughly $550 million in annual federal funding.
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When the White House floated a 20% tariff on Mexican imports to cover the upfront costs, there was a rare bipartisan meltdown and the trial balloon was quickly deflated.
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"I think it was a trial balloon intended to get a market reaction, which it did," Edward Alden, a trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told me.
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Whether Bloomberg runs or not, the excitement over his trial balloon speaks volumes about the uncertainty in the Democratic contest less than three months before Iowa and New Hampshire.
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"I can't think of any good argument against it," said Mr. Nungesser, who floated his proposition — at this point, just a trial balloon — in a telephone interview this week.
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"In this case, we have what could serve as a trial balloon," he said on "Anderson Cooper 360," suggesting that it might be a way to test public reaction.
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The Cloverfield Paradox may be a mediocre movie, but as a trial balloon in Netflix's attempts to carve out a model that works for its business, it's utterly fascinating.
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Kirill Rogov, a political commentator, wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday that officials' attempt to squeeze the Memorial event out of Lubyanka Square was an obvious trial balloon.
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Many inside the West Wing view the chief of staff rumors as largely a trial balloon fueled by Kelly's critics, who see the Porter crisis as a possible opening.
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In a widely shared Medium post titled "Trial Balloon for a Coup," Yonatan Zunger interpreted news of Trump's early fundraising to mean that he was creating a vehicle for bribery.
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Journalists said they welcomed the withdrawal but could not rule out the possibility that it was a "trial balloon" to test the waters for putting more restrictions on the press.
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So it's not surprising that he happily hosted Mark Zuckerberg's definitely-not-a-presidential-trial-balloon tour in South Bend in 2017, months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal had broken.
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One of President Trump's close friends, Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax, floated a trial balloon Monday when he suggested that the President was considering terminating Mueller at this position.
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There are two kinds of leaks: rogue disclosures and those authorized by senior officials to get information out without appearing to officially endorse it (sometimes called "floating a trial balloon").
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Trump may now feel that this test shows that using the pardon can help him fulfill his previous trial balloon and stave off a wider-ranging investigation of his campaign.
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While the driving ban was lifted by official decree, news of the guardianship change was leaked as a trial balloon—first to the Saudi newspaper Okaz and then to foreign outlets.
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Of course, it's not entirely accurate to call Uber's Pittsburgh trial balloon strictly driverless — at least not yet: Each vehicle will be staffed by a specially trained safety driver or engineer.
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The origin story Bumblebee isn't just a movie, it's a trial balloon — a check-in to see whether Transformers die-hards will support a long, profitable run of cinematic spin-offs.
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Of course, these rumored plans are thin on details; as with other prior announcements, they may be a kind of horrific trial balloon, to determine how far the administration can go.
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"Call it a trial balloon that the market shot down, perhaps as a harbinger of the dumping of the stock that would occur if say, a $29 bid were launched," Cramer said.
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Industry sources told Axios that last week's reports were likely part of a trial balloon and that, following the backlash to the leaks, DHS is looking to back away from the idea.
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Our fears that the crackdown on gay rights was merely a trial balloon aimed to see how far Putin could go without meaningful opposition from the West have proven to be true.
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"When you're going to test a message to see if your meme is popular, to see if your message resonates [and] gains traction, you want to send a trial balloon," DiResta said.
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WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT THING THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WOULD DO NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU FLOATED THE TRIAL BALLOON TO ACTUALLY TAKE A CONCRETE STEP TOWARDS RE-ENGAGING ON THAT?
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The Bloomberg story looked more like a combination of a "trial balloon and stating the obvious" with QE never going to stop dead, according to Carsten Brzeski, the chief economist at ING-DiBa.
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The good news is that Trump's trial balloon may be a long-overdue acknowledgement that bigotry is out of step with communities of color, as well as with the vast majority of Americans.
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Floating a Sandoval trial balloon in order to induce Republicans to freak out preemptively is a nice way of demonstrating to America's political journalists that Senate Republicans are not currently interested in compromise.
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Aspiring candidates and officials will find good career advice; wonks will appreciate the ticktocks of negotiations on Israel, Iran and climate change; cynics will see it as a trial balloon for one last run.
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More precisely, the idea was to break it down like this: That Democratic plan was always going nowhere but it existed as a trial balloon to test one potential theory of Trump-era governance.
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But if the Republicans simply release this memo as some kind of trial balloon and leave it at that, then the Democrats will be proven right about this simply being a partisan distraction technique.
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But this trial balloon is particularly ironic given the conservative movement's obsession with Obama-era executive orders, which it loudly argued marked an assault on the Constitution, calling him "King Obama" -- and much worse.
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Contests like these serve two purposes: to help the company's designers find a creative spark, and to serve as a trial balloon for potential new characters before Sanrio sinks money into their corresponding merchandise.
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But it soon became clear that the AP had informed them of their intent to publish 24 hours previously, suggesting the possibility that the White House intended to float the proposal as a trial balloon.
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Sources close to Mike Bloomberg tell Axios that last week's announcement was partly a trial balloon to gauge interest and preserve the former mayor's options — but his own very extensive polling remains far from convincing.
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Becky Lynch has, since her shoot mauling at the hands of Nia Jax (who briefly showed up in the men's Rumble, as a trial balloon for intergender matches), become the most over person in the company.
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It's also possible that the op-ed could be some sort of trial balloon, sanctioned by the Clintons, simply to take America's temperature and calculate the odds of one last hurrah before riding off into the sunset.
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The Buenos Aires debt negotiation is seen by some as a trial balloon for how Argentina will handle the renegotiation of about $100 billion in sovereign debt inherited by the administration of center-left President Alberto Fernandez.
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The Buenos Aires debt negotiation is seen by some as a trial balloon for how Argentina will handle the renegotiation of about $100 billion in sovereign debt inherited by the administration of center-left President Alberto Fernandez.
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First, Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE jumped into the presidential race after saying he wouldn't.
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The Buenos Aires debt negotiation is seen by some as a trial balloon for how Argentina will handle the renegotiation of more than $100 billion in sovereign debt inherited by the administration of center-left President Alberto Fernandez.
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The signs of worry: The White House floated a trial balloon about invoking executive privilege to block Comey's testimony, but quickly popped it — two officials tell the N.Y. Times' Michael Schmidt that Trump doesn't plan to go that route.
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That the show is from Jill Soloway, creator of Amazon's most acclaimed series, "Transparent," tells us that this is no trial balloon; unlike some earlier offerings in the Amazon pilot program (anyone remember "Browsers"?), this one will surely stick.
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When it was first floated that the President-elect and his transition team were considering Romney for Secretary of State, it seemed like a far-fetched idea or, at best, a trial balloon meant to gauge Romney's footing amongst Trump Republicans.
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In what appeared to be a trial balloon to test public sentiment, the provincial government in Shaanxi, in central China, last month called on Beijing to abolish all birth limits and let people have as many children as they want.
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And Republicans appeared to be taken by surprise by the Trump administration's immigration trial balloon and reports that Trump was open to including a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and border security in the omnibus.
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Major League Soccer has advertising and sponsor logos on its uniforms, as does the W.N.B.A. Silver acknowledged that some fans were against the addition of sponsor logos to the uniforms, which made a trial-balloon debut in the 2016 All-Star game.
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If that was a trial balloon for anything more than an effort to discredit Mueller's eventual findings, the President got a swift answer as several senior GOP senators warned that trying to rid himself of the Mueller probe would be disastrous. Sen.
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Puffs could serve as an interesting trial balloon for the rest of the Broadway industry, showing whether releasing shows online, where a much wider, less geographically locked audience can access them, is a viable revenue stream that doesn't undercut profits for the actual stage show.
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Observers like Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First, which tracks development subsidies, saw the brief cancellation as a trial balloon sent up to test whether Foxconn could back away from an economically unviable project without angering Trump, who was waging a trade war against China.
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Bad ideas about a movie being "the one," or about a movie serving as a box office trial balloon, are embarrassing — and the people who deserve the blame are the people in charge of making decisions about which movies get made in the first place.
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One year on, she is front and center in a midterm election that she isn't even running in, playing kingmaker for candidates allied with her father in what's being widely seen as a not-so-subtle trial balloon for her own presidential run in 2022.
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Role of Wilbur Ross One of the sources said he viewed the idea as a trial balloon when first raised, and considered it dead on arrival given the strong reaction in the business community -- and the known opposition to such protectionist ideas among the GOP congressional leadership.
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The industry's biggest attractions, however, have faced ingrained skepticism from Oscar voters, which explains the "popular film" trial balloon, which many saw as an act of desperation and pandering intended to mollify ABC, the network that televises the awards, after a sizable dip in last year's ratings.
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While plenty of people in Washington talk to reporters out of a desire to undercut a rival, promote themselves, float a trial balloon or kill a proposal they don't like, I've found that the more sensitive the story is, the less scheming that goes into sources' motives.
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In a viral Medium post in January emblematic of this mode of thinking, a Google engineer made the case that Trump's botched immigration order was a "trial balloon" for a coup: that Trump could make use of the ban's failure to mark a path to unchecked power.
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"I think it was like a trial balloon that someone in the administration probably sent up to see kind of how people gauge it or how people would respond to it," said Luke Coffey, a foreign policy expert at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in Washington.
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While the news should be taken with a grain of salt—the Bloomberg trial balloon has virtually become a staple of recent presidential cycles—it does raise the question of whether there is anyone in the country outside Wall Street and Bloomberg's inner circle who actually wants Bloomberg to run.
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Vox reported that back in February, Amazon Founder Jeff BezosJeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosA book can explain why Elizabeth Warren's ideas bother billionaires so much Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez see 'class solidarity' in report Bezos asked Bloomberg to run MORE asked Bloomberg to consider running.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE scored an endorsement from key New Hampshire political activist Dudley Dudley on Tuesday, marking his first endorsement in the Granite State.
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According to various people who have heard Related executives float the trial balloon, the site would no longer decline toward the river but rise up, as it moved east to west, creating an immense wall, some 700 feet long, just next to the High Line and towering some two stories above it.
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An aide to billionaire 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE has offered campaign donations to numerous Iowa politicians in exchange for their endorsements, according to The Associated Press.
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Bloomberg would be the second billionaire businessman to enter the Democratic primary behind Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE, who has spent millions on advertisements but has failed to gain traction in the polls.
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Team Rising weigh in on the latest actions of 2020 billionaires Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE and Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergThe Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary Budowsky: A Biden-Michelle Obama ticket in 2020?
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Billionaire philanthropist and presidential hopeful Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE challenged former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergThe Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary Budowsky: A Biden-Michelle Obama ticket in 2020?
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Read more:Michael Bloomberg is planning to file paperwork to run in Alabama's 2020 Democratic primaryElizabeth Warren rolls out 'calculator for the billionaires' in thinly veiled swipe at Bill Gates and Leon Cooperman'His trial balloon went over like the Hindenburg': Democrats are skeptical of Michael Bloomberg's potential 2020 run3 glaring reasons why Michael Bloomberg's presidential bid might be doomed
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Op-Ed Contributor The latest attention-grabbing trial balloon to be floated by a White House staffer or apparent surrogate for President Trump is the suggestion by Christopher Ruddy, a longtime friend of the president, that Mr. Trump is "considering, perhaps, terminating" Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel appointed to investigate the Trump campaign's links to Russia.
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This was the world of think tanks, of policy documents, of presentations at important conferences, of reporting breathlessly on major speeches, of trial-balloon op-eds, of congressional and parliamentary testimony, of councils and summits and studies that produced lavishly bound reports with the expectation that they would be seriously and judiciously considered by all sides of a debate.
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It's called "Trial Balloon for a Coup?" and it reviews the news of the past day or two through the lens of a unifying theory: By putting confidant Steve Bannon on the National Security Council, cutting agencies out of rule-making, and defying a court order, Trump is systematically attempting to reduce any checks on his power.
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Bloomberg's decision, first reported by The New York Times, to send aides to Alabama to gather signatures and to meet a deadline today for candidates to formally enter the race was both a trial balloon and a signal of his nervousness that Biden appears weakened and the rest of the field may not be up to the task of successfully battling Trump.
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The latest trial balloon is a draft bill produced by the House Natural Resources Committee, the most important detail of which is a provision that would allow a federal oversight board to send a debt-restructuring proposal to a court, which then would use it to impose a "fair and equitable" solution — that is, a forced allocation of debt write-downs among the creditors.
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The entrance of a second billionaire in the Democratic primary, joining Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE, could also fan the debate over how far Democrats should go in addressing income and wealth inequities, particularly as proposals from progressive candidates like Sens.
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In fact, it was that committee's "trial balloon" regarding a takeover-tax bill, sent around several days before the crash to see how the measure would be received, that was a main catalyst — or at least the straw that broke the camel's back — in an environment that was already appearing to be a perfect storm for some kind of tumble for months, if not years.
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If the former New York mayor does enter the race, he would be the second billionaire businessman after Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE, who has already spent millions in advertising but registers at less than 1 percent nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
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Especially considering that Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE spent almost 7 million dollars a minute of speaking time that he got in the last debate, and whose campaign is embroiled in scandal for allegedly offering campaign contributions up to elected officials in Iowa if they endorse him.
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It's clear that someone out there is floating a trial balloon on a deal that would fund border barriers in exchange for legalizing immigrants currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — a proposal that has jumped from the editorial pages of major newspapers to Trump whisperers on Fox News, with both Pence and Sean Hannity opening the door to a wall-for-DACA deal on Thursday night.
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Read some of our best stories on Mike Bloomberg:'His trial balloon went over like the Hindenburg': Democrats are skeptical of Michael Bloomberg's potential 2020 runMichael Bloomberg's late entry into the 2020 race is motivated by fear among Democrats that Joe Biden's campaign is in a 'dire' place3 glaring reasons a Michael Bloomberg presidential bid might be doomedMichael Bloomberg was the richest person ever to run for president.
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Businessman Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE and tech entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangWilliamson announces poverty plan with support for universal basic income, minimum wage The Hill's Morning Report - Diplomats kick off public evidence about Trump, Ukraine Outsider candidates outpoll insider candidates MORE are also poised to take the debate stage.
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For housing advocates, the architectural community and urban policy makers, the building is a trial balloon for a medley of themes: the changing demographic of a city with inadequate housing (according to the NYU Furman Center, a third of the city's households are single people); a culture eager to make a smaller environmental footprint by paring down belongings and sharing resources; and what has become a unicorn in this city, affordable housing.
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Y.) said in Iowa on Saturday that they see "class solidarity" in a report that Amazon founder Jeff BezosJeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosA book can explain why Elizabeth Warren's ideas bother billionaires so much Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez see 'class solidarity' in report Bezos asked Bloomberg to run MORE urged former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergThe Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary Budowsky: A Biden-Michelle Obama ticket in 2020?
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharHillicon Valley: Federal inquiry opened into Google health data deal | Facebook reports millions of post takedowns | Microsoft shakes up privacy debate | Disney plus tops 10M sign-ups in first day Federal inquiry opened into Google health data deal Google sparks new privacy fears over health care data MORE (D-Minn.) and businessman Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerKrystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy Steyer scores endorsement from key New Hampshire activist Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats MORE at 3 percent each.
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You can get a feel for Ebell's role by reading excerpts from three stories I wrote over a six-day stretch in March that year in which Bush's climate plans were floated and summarily squashed: The Bush CO2 trial balloon rises (March 10, 2001) Cuts would constitute the nation's first restrictions on carbon dioxide, a gas that has no direct effect on human health — in fact, it is the bubbles in beer — but that many scientists have concluded is already altering ecosystems and weather patterns as it accumulates in the atmosphere.
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Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergHillicon Valley: Federal inquiry opened into Google health data deal | Facebook reports millions of post takedowns | Microsoft shakes up privacy debate | Disney plus tops 10M sign-ups in first day A book can explain why Elizabeth Warren's ideas bother billionaires so much Facebook says it removed millions of posts over hate speech, child exploitation violations MORE went to Harvard, Jeff BezosJeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosA book can explain why Elizabeth Warren's ideas bother billionaires so much Excitement over Bloomberg's trial balloon should concern Democrats Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez see 'class solidarity' in report Bezos asked Bloomberg to run MORE went to Princeton, and so on.
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