| 单词 | shell game |
| 例句 | “Step right up! Toss three balls in the hole and win a prize. Or try your luck in the shell game. Win a Liberty Head silver dollar.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Jinx grabbed Ned by the elbow and led him to the shell game. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In contrast, Altuzarra’s work — shown at an airy downtown space with vast windows onto the lights of the city — suggests someone who sees such a pursuit as an unwinnable shell game. Nothing says subversive fashion like scowling models with greasy hair 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Once their shortsighted shell games toppled the world economy, though, it was a little harder to get into that high-capitalist gambling spirit. Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But the Manila Society for Children at Risk turns out to be one more part of a complex and devious shell game. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z In its closing run, “Better Call Saul” has jumped about in time, shuffling these identities like the moving targets in a shell game. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Even a second-rate magician would better serve these kids than what they're forced to sit through now: a shell game, at knifepoint. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z Mayor today is calling for hiring two more classes of new police and ending his predecessor's shell game where money was earmarked to add officers but spent elsewhere. Mayor Emanuel: Hire more police 2011-10-12T15:34:00Z This is the nature of god in “American Gods” and perhaps in America itself: a shell game of the soul where no one wins. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Whether it's as simple as paying for a bottle of wine or as dicey as acquiring a fake passport, he turns money-changing hands into a shell game, always secretly pocketing a healthy profit for himself. 'Two Faces of January' a twisted tale driven by talented trio 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “Tentacle 8” proves to be a convoluted shell game, packed with high-tech espionage jargon about servers, data breaches and black sites, but hobbled by a muddy plot. Review: ‘Tentacle 8’ Ensnares a Security Analyst in a Maze of Secrets 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z If this book were a shell game, you would never wonder where the pea is. ‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Reader 2, whatever corporate shell game your employer is playing, it can’t just call backsies on its contributions, according to Wood. @Work Advice: When your company plays fast and loose with your retirement savings 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z An unreliable narrator is an invitation to a shell game. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Not all of them are cheap hustlers sitting at tables at subway stops or in parks, offering you a shot a being the first person ever to win at three-card monte or the shell game. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s a shell game, and in a sense that’s the way the novel operates, tantalizing us with the “truth” about what really happened to Alice that night. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z We’ve seen numerous versions of that ontological shell game, and this one has no new moves. Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But are these paintings — and it’s painting, more than all other media, that participates in this shell game — worthy of entering a museum at all? Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z "A shell game to conceal who you really are." How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Hiring to promote diversity is a shell game with no easy solution—I’ve written about it before. White guilt and “The Good Wife”: When good intentions about corporate diversity fall painfully short 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z At least this isn’t a literal rendering of a shell game. Dance Review: DanceBrazil Presents Premieres at the Joyce Theater 2014-03-13T22:24:55Z She enters — and wins — multiple contests for skills utterly new to her, including a shell game and dung throwing. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z And some of the minigames - like Test Your Sight, which is basically the old shell game - are just pointless. Review: Gory 'Mortal Kombat' as brain-dead as ever 2011-04-27T13:30:29Z “It’s a shell game: This will pay for that; this will pay for that this month.” Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Beyond the host drama and the shell game with the awards categories, this year’s Oscars were wrestling with a root problem: What and who are the Academy Awards for? Nobody Hosted the Oscars. And They Did a Fine Job of It. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “But beneath the languid tale of young campus love, he’s playing a shell game: The novel’s not only a forensic examination of our toxic politics, it’s also a sly sendup of literary culture.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z That just goes to show how this dark money shell game operates all the time. Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of “Dark Money” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It was a fashion shell game with the audience, in search of a meaning that really, truly, is only evident to Kawakubo. Perspective | At Paris Fashion Week, designers reworked the tuxedo and explored the meaning of color. And, oh yeah, Kanye showed up. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Writing a novel is a shell game — an elaborate con in which the author aims to dazzle with what she does well, in hopes of distracting the reader from what she can’t do at all. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s also possible to shuffle the images around the screen, as if you were playing a shell game. ‘Fifth Wall,’ With Jonah Bokaer, as iPad App 2012-06-22T15:23:11Z However, when I went back to “Recitatif” some 25 years after my first read, it was clear that Morrison expertly used racial codes as a shell game: You never can find the prize. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “The Skate” gets at both, as Ms. Childs runs a sly shell game with playfulness and poignancy. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He threw money around, put his name on everything, and, crucially, used threats of legal action to silence most people who would dare publicly question his shell game. The Donald Trump, George Santos, and SBF fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z With this shell game, the four-times-indicted ex-president lives like a rich man despite his proven inability to make much money from his business ventures. The unsung hero of Trump’s fraud case: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z If you see anyone playing three-card monte or a shell game, just keep walking. Traveling soon? Look out for these new tourism scams 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a shell game,” said Mark Morgan, who served as acting commissioner at CBP in the Trump administration. Illegal immigrants stream into airports as Biden plans kick in 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z “There are thousands of ways to exploit these systems,” Cook said, dismissing security steps taken by election officials as a “shell game” and “smoke and mirrors to distract us.” Election conspiracy movement grinds on as 2024 approaches 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The Federation of American Immigration Reform, an anti-immigration group, called January’s plunge in border numbers “a shell game” to boost Biden’s reelection prospects. Plunge in border crossings could blunt GOP attack on Biden 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z More than a dozen complaints specifically referred to Liberty as a "shell game" or a "fraud." Christian health nonprofit that let people “opt out of Obamacare” saddled members with debt and ruin 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z One person who is familiar with the box's movements and the investigation into it told CNN that federal investigators are suspecting a "shell game with classified documents." “Incredible negligence”: More classified docs found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago — months after FBI search 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Iranians are not fooled by this shell game. Opinion | Iranians aren’t fooled by the regime’s ruse. You shouldn’t be either. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z “There are some shell games and accounting games that go into it.” How ‘Extraordinary Measures’ Can Postpone a Debt Limit Disaster 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z On the way down, he was proof, to those who wanted it, that crypto businesses were not much more than a shell game. Sam Bankman-Fried’s Power Was Contingent on Belief 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a bureaucratic shell game; it’s hoping the disabled will drop out and go away. Opinion | Social Security disability feels like a bureaucratic shell game 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “That is a shell game, and the special master should not indulge it.” DOJ urges judge to reject Trump’s ‘shell game’ in fight over documents seized from Mar-a-Lago 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The shell games can make the destination of some dollars impossible to trace. Where money is gushing into WA state Legislature elections — and why 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z That is because a complicated shell game — giving to political organizations that in turn give to other political organizations — masks exactly who is giving how much to whom. Fueled by Billionaires, Political Spending Shatters Records Again 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The president is playing a rhetorical shell game. Analysis | Biden’s unwarranted bragging about reducing the budget deficit 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z "Trump is a con man playing a shell game to fake his wealth to banks and investors who bankrolled his steady stream of failed business ventures." "Art of the steal": Experts say Trump pleading the 5th in NY AG probe backfired — now he's "screwed" 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z It would become the center of a business web built for the Ponzi scheme, a shell game that draws in investors with false promises of big returns. Steven Hoffenberg, brash swindler behind massive Ponzi scheme, dies at 77 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “That feels like a shell game to me. I don’t like it,” said David Buckmaster, a senior compensation director at Wildlife Studios. You may soon be asked to take a pay cut to keep working from home 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Others posited that the Russians were performing an exercise, as the Kremlin itself insisted, or playing a shell game designed to conceal a purpose short of invasion. Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion In a related case, Justice Department lawyers representing the I.R.S. accused EY of enabling a “shell game” and a “flagrant tax scheme gone awry.” The Big 4’s Tax Problem 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z They accused the firm of enabling a “shell game” and a “flagrant tax scheme gone awry.” Officials Balked at a Drug Company’s Tax Shelter. Auditors Approved It Anyway. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Councilmember Andrew Lewis, who is leading the Park District Board, said such budget shell games are a big concern. Seattle parks maintenance has gone down the toilet 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z When I moved to New York City in 1981, I first stayed at the YMCA, and every day I encountered street hustlers on 34th Street, taking people's money with the shell game. "Originalism" and other Supreme nonsense: How the right-wing justices rationalize mass murder 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z To say the deal includes $96 million in new cash, she said, is to engage in a “shell game.” Commentary: Keeping baseball in Anaheim has its price 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Serpe said he believed that Stallings had executed a “tremendous corporate shell game” to avoid the full judgment — a claim Stallings denies, saying the divestments were unrelated to the lawsuit. How 2 industries stymied justice for young lead paint victims 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, accused the president of using “shell games and budget gimmicks” to obscure the true cost to taxpayers and passing off expiring COVID-19 programs as a deficit reduction. EXCLUSIVE: Nikki Haley blasts Biden’s budget, calls on Congress to rein in spending 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Another ICE source called the arrest data “a shell game with numbers.” EXCLUSIVE: Secret ICE data shows drop in arrests of criminals, surge in arrests of non-criminals 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z I've been thinking about those shell games because of the endless, reverent talk of "textualism" and "originalism" by conservative, Federalist Society–approved justices on the Supreme Court. "Originalism" and other Supreme nonsense: How the right-wing justices rationalize mass murder 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Rather than addressing real reforms to guarantee the viability of the USPS, politicians have proposed a shell game that puts seniors at risk while ignoring the underlying problems that need to be addressed. Opinion | Solutions, not gimmicks, are needed to fix the Postal Service 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z After six years, countless sophistries and innumerable shell games with the math, U.S. Perspective | In its USWNT settlement, U.S. Soccer essentially made an admission: It was all true 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Manchin in particular has expressed concern about large amounts of spending and their possible inflationary impact, and at one point last month accused his fellow Democrats of playing "shell games" with the program's cost. Republicans argue Biden's $1.75 trillion social plan would add to deficit 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “The Biden administration is playing statutory shell games with the courts, straining to justify an unjustifiable and unprecedented attempt to federalize public health policy and diminish the sovereign states’ constitutional powers,” the 34-page ruling states. Judge extends block of Biden vaccine mandate for health workers nationwide 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Some analysts have suggested that China could play a “shell game” with its new nuclear silos, in which it builds many but arms only a dozen or two of them. China's nuclear and military buildup raises the risk of conflict in Asia 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z This shell game of transferring health-care costs to Medicare is little more than a scam. Opinion | Solutions, not gimmicks, are needed to fix the Postal Service 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Another depicts the proposal as a shell game that “loots Medicare.” Pharmaceutical industry likely to shatter its lobbying record as it works to shape Democrats’ spending bill 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The maneuver — which Goldwein called “the ultimate shell game” — would raise money on paper, but it’s not sustainable. Fact check: Why Biden says his plan is ‘fiscally responsible,’ while Manchin decries ‘gimmicks’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “As more of the real details outlined … what I see are shell games and budget gimmicks that make the real cost of this so-called ‘$1.75 trillion’ bill estimated to be twice as high,” he said. Biden bill on social welfare, climate change estimated to kill 103K jobs, raise taxes on 80% of U.S. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Not only did Mr. Manchin accuse liberal lawmakers of extortion, but he also claimed they were engaged in “shell games” and “budget gimmicks” to make the reconciliation seem fully funded. Manchin under fire from fellow Democrats for digging in against Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Manchin said he is suspicious that Democrats are engaged in “shell games, budget gimmicks” on the larger reconciliation package, the full cost of which hasn’t been scored yet by the Congressional Budget Office. Manchin urges far-left Democrats to stop holding infrastructure ‘hostage’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z He portrayed the bill as being filled with “shell games” and “budget gimmicks” that would end up costing far more than its $1.75 trillion price tag. In blow to Biden, Joe Manchin will not commit to backing $1.75 trillion spending bill 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “What I see are shell games, budget gimmicks, that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion bill estimated to be almost twice that amount.” Fact check: Why Biden says his plan is ‘fiscally responsible,’ while Manchin decries ‘gimmicks’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z They were the naive losers in a shell game that everyone but them knew was rigged. Commentary: #MuteRKelly co-founder: I'm through crying. It's R. Kelly's turn 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The complaint alleges Twitter embarked on a “shell game” where it tried to conceal its user engagement from investors; as user engagement was considered a key driver of MAU growth. Twitter wants to settle with angry investors for $809 million 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z This is a common shell game with "alternative medicine" pushers, who like to talk about how "safe" and "natural" their methods are while avoiding the real issue of how useless they are. Why is everyone arguing over horse paste? To avoid discussion about the dangers of vaccine refusal 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Hunter’s claim is that the vaccine that the FDA approved and the one in common use today are different and that the FDA and Pfizer are involved in a shell game or a bait-and-switch. Column: Following FDA approval of Pfizer's shot, the anti-vaccine movement cooks up new conspiracy theory 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z When the first new field appeared, speculation arose that China might be playing a shell game, moving a few missiles among many silos. Opinion | More missile silos have been found in China. That’s an ominous sign. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Based on his analysis, Lewis said, there was “a very good chance that China is planning a shell game” in which it hides a relatively small number of warheads across a network of silos. China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z He referred to the transfer of minors from CBP to HHS as a “shell game.” As border numbers remain high, Biden administration seeks new metrics for success 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z According to Cuellar, the administration is engaged in a "shell game," and is deceiving the public by moving migrant children from one tent to the other. Democrat lawmaker accuses Biden admin of playing 'shell game' with images of empty Border Patrol facility 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharpton said the failure to release the body camera footage was a “shell game,” and called on the Justice Department to investigate the shooting and the perceived lack of transparency in the case. ‘Here We Are Again’: Police Killings Loom Over Andrew Brown Funeral 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Brown spins her who’s-conning-whom tale appealingly, playing the author’s shell game of keeping our loyalties shifting, depending on who’s doing the narration. This month’s recommendations for chilling mysteries as the weather warms | The Plot Thickens 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z No one has been a bigger perpetrator of this shell game lie than Emmert. Perspective | The NCAA’s shell game is the real women’s basketball scandal 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a pretty shell game that Amazon has going,” former driver Mark Eddy, who was based out of Amazon’s Everett warehouse, said in an interview. Amazon delivery drivers scoff at company’s claim that its workers don’t pee in bottles 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z For all of its visual beauty and brilliant writing, the movie is a shell game in the end. Why My Teenage Self Gave Woody Allen a Pass 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z There was more to that case than a simple shell game. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Mid-Atlantic cities saw an election season shell game, with Philadelphians sent to vote in Manhattan and New Yorkers swinging Baltimore elections. Opinion | How to Steal an Election 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Animal scientists occasionally use techniques related to magic to investigate cognition, such as invisible string—used for levitation effects—or the shell game. Magic Is (Literally) for the Birds 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, the annals of California taxation brim with cases in which the sale of a major property was hidden in an elaborate legalistic shell game. Column: Who's opposing Proposition 15? Land developers and Big Business 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z “I also think it seems like a transparent shell game,” Weissman reportedly told one of his colleagues. Top Mueller prosecutor says Special Counsel 'absolutely' let Americans down: report 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “Any corporate shell game that leaves TikTok in the hands of ByteDance will simply perpetuate the original problem, leaving U.S. national interests and everyday users at serious risk,” he wrote. TikTok’s deal with Oracle is a bet that Trump will cave on concerns over China 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But we've also used sleight of hand: shell games of carbon credits, a focus on inventing incredible new sustainable-energy tech while still pumping over 10 million barrels of oil a year out of the ground. The climate crisis is happening right now. Just look at California’s weekend 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z “The reason Apple does this is so that it doesn’t become a shell game.... The concern is that the misconduct will simply be transferred to another Epic entity.” ‘Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine,’ Epic tells court 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z "Biden is engaged in a high stakes shell game, stoking the fear in the public about the virus or racism," Ingraham said. Laura Ingraham: Biden 'a doddering fool who can't control the mob on the streets or the mob in his own party' 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “The way the Obama administration used co-benefits to calculate the mercury rule and other rules — they were playing a shell game,” he said. Trump, Citing Pandemic, Moves to Weaken Two Key Environmental Protections 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z They could take some out for this year and refill it during the coming year - a shell game that helps them meet the obligation for a balanced budget. Analysis: Budget writing complicated by pandemic revenue dip 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z The larger issue is the shell game regularly played with funding in Springfield, all under the heading of “efficiency.” Illinois Editorial Roundup: 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z A closer inspection shows a fiscal shell game. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Who, exactly, is playing a “shell game” with the facts? Team Trump's trial 'revenge' is off to a woefully dishonest start 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Regulators cited one 2012 employee complaint sent to Tolstedt and another executive that reported employees being “forced into inappropriate activity to keep their jobs. ... Wells Fargo is playing a shell game.” Former Wells Fargo chief executive barred from banking industry 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z And the lack of witnesses is particularly striking given the shell game Trump and his Republican colleagues have played. Opinion | George Conway and Neal Katyal: How Pelosi should play her impeachment cards 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z What is going on is just a shell game. Opinion | Maryland hasn’t been honest about lottery and casino revenues 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z He and eight others said their managers had asked them to engage in a monthly shell game of briefly inserting these unavailable properties into Oyo’s listings — complete with fake photographs — to help impress investors. At SoftBank’s Jewel in India: ‘Toxic’ Culture and Troubling Incidents 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Minor League Baseball called the Dream League concept a “shell game” in a statement last week, and Walker dismissed the proposal as politics. In Fighting Over the Minors, What Might Baseball Lose? 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The gut and replace tactic is a “legislative shell game that confounds the public,” the complaint said. Former regent sues Hawaii over university board’s downsizing 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Yet now the shell game continues — with Trump turning around and saying he can’t be impeached and investigated either. Opinion | George Conway and Neal Katyal: How Pelosi should play her impeachment cards 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z This is part of a Kafkaesque financial shell game that has played out since the 2008 financial crisis. How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z With no agency equipped to block his path, Eyman placed 11 initiatives on statewide ballots while the regulators unwound the financial shell games. Day of reckoning for serial initiative filer Tim Eyman 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It is thus best approached as a kind of cinematic shell game, in which the focus of the story keeps shifting and the full scope of the corruption on display remains just out of view.” Indie Focus: Greed is goofy in 'The Laundromat' 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It is thus best approached as a kind of cinematic shell game, in which the focus of the story keeps shifting and the full scope of the corruption on display remains just out of view. Review: No one comes out clean in 'The Laundromat,' Steven Soderbergh's playful Panama Papers comedy 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Kneel in protest over the missing documents and deleted emails, the financial shell games in which people on the sideline collect six-figure pay and classify it as “athlete support” on tax forms. Perspective | When athletes kneel, the rotten U.S. Olympic regime has no moral standing to object 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The Republicans are running a shell game with no pea. Donald Trump's week from hell: After the horrors of El Paso and Dayton, GOP is in full retreat 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z And most critically, Olympic finances are a wonderland of obfuscation and shell games that won’t be pierced by yearly reports to a senate subcommittee. Perspective | Olympic leaders neglected abuse. Consistent federal oversight is only hope for change. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s worth pausing to appreciate the nature of the shell game. Under fire, White House suggests Trump hates dissent, not women of color 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But its controls often feel like a shell game that results in us sharing more personal data. Review | Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Now a scheme she supports - one that constitutes government by shell game - should be discarded by the Gary Common Council. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Many companies play shell games by not keeping money or real estate holdings in the name of the company against which judgments or fines are entered. Elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Many companies play shell games by not keeping money or real estate holdings in the name of the company against which judgments or fines are entered. Elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z In other words, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s explanation for the apparent shell game was to say, “Keep your eyes on the shells.” Brand New Congress PAC payments to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend Riley Roberts scrutinized 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z “Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way … a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab,” the lawsuit says. Lawsuit means Chicago Obama library plan no sure thing 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z As we argued in a September editorial, government by shell game won’t repair the dire financial straits of a foundering Gary. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z That’s why they give their donations to each other in a charitable shell game. Two billionaires walked into a bar… 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “It’s a shell game of moving kids from one facility to another,” Mr. Merkley said in a telephone interview. Trump Administration to Nearly Double Size of Detention Center for Migrant Teenagers 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The Trojans walked away from that shell game not only without their wallet, but without their pants. In Kliff Kingsbury fiasco, USC's Lynn Swann again shows inexperience as athletic director 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Conservative media outlets made puns about the bill’s dishonest “shell game” qualities and the “mere peanuts” that independent farmers would accrue, but their arguments fell on deaf ears among Carter supporters. Carterism 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The real shell game is being played by politicians. Opinion | Taxpayers Always Lose Industry’s Shell Game With Jobs 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Federal Election Commission decision by requiring all political organizations to disclose their donors and by shutting down the shell game of big-money donations to super PACs. Opinion | The Democratic majority’s first order of business: Restore democracy 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Critics called the lawmakers' move a shell game. Washington Supreme Court upholds most of charter school law 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z What we are dealing with here, in other words, is a bit of a shell game — hard to follow, costly to the public, satisfying to those who are running it. Opinion | Coal Is Killing the Planet. Trump Loves It. 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Donald Trump’s equivalent shell games still largely remain to be revealed. Cooking the books in the Trump Universe 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Legislators can help by not addressing challenges involving their constitutional obligations with flim-flam rhetoric and shell games. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Yes, but it is one big shell game. This is not income growth; it’s redistribution. It’s money that was being spent in Northern Virginia or Georgetown, and now it’s being spent near the ballpark.” The promise: Nationals Park would transform the city. Did it? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z This is the shell game the administration intends to play in order to demonize immigrants from undesirable countries. Donald Trump’s immigration policy: Define all Latino immigrants as “criminals,” then deport... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z PC Construction Co. filed a suit last month accusing developer The Federated Cos. of “playing a shell game” by creating companies to avoid paying its bills. Company settles lawsuit against housing project developers 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a shell game,” said Chip Bergh, the chief executive of Levi’s. On Trade, the U.S. and China Consider the Unthinkable: Breaking Up 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z "It's a political shell game. Leave the vast majority of employers alone, but terrorize their workers, families and communities." Pro- and anti-Trump forces score points on immigration, but both sides are losing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “He’s played a shell game with the people,” Morgan said. GOP opponent says Arkansas governor not conservative enough 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z She quoted a recorded statement Meli made before his January 2017 arrest, in which he admitted to running a “shell game,” and “taking money from one guy to pay off the other guy.” New York man sentenced to six-and-a-half years prison for... 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a shell game that constantly changes,” said David Thompson, a North Korea specialist and senior analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a nonprofit organization in Washington that tracks illicit networks. High seas shell game: How a North Korean shipping ruse makes a mockery of sanctions 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, all signs are that his talk of “immediate and intense attention” to these sites is little more than a shell game. Opinion | Americans need a real Superfund policy, not symbolism 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Sounds like a shell game to me, and I am confident the Supreme Court would rule it unconstitutional, because state funding for schools is not a charity but an obligation of government. Opinion | Maryland Democrats’ bad shell game 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “I view it as a sort of shell game.” Judge weighs whether Washington state lawmakers are subject to public records laws 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z If we want Utahans to conserve water, the costs of water must be raised to reflect their actual and external costs and the property tax shell game must be stopped. Seeking the Source of the Vanishing Great Salt Lake 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “The root of this is that tuition is part of this shell game,” says Downey, who wore a red union T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Educate! Agitate! Organize!” arched over a fist clutching a pencil. Grad students protest GOP's tax hike and prepare to fight about tuition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z To carry out its mission for its elite clients, Appleby plays a complicated shell game with carefully crafted tax havens. The Paradise Papers are a wake-up call: now Congress must act on tax havens | Sheldon Whitehouse 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z “Such a financial shell game – while not prohibited by the Public School Code — is unsustainable in the long-term.” Pennsylvania audit finds 'extreme dysfunction' in Scranton schools 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s all a shell game whose only purpose is to lower business taxes by giving businesses rather than the government the time value of their money as taxes are pushed into the future. Perspective | The middle class doesn’t want a tax cut. It wants better government. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Aug. 15, on lawmakers playing a shell game with tax cuts: Montana Editorial Roundup 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It sounds like a big miss, but the White House is playing a shell game here, highlighting a subset of the data. Analysis | White House video misleads on CBO health-care estimates 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z We only hope this, too, is not some political shell game to advance school vouchers before state financing of public schools is sufficiently overhauled. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “Such a financial shell game – while not prohibited by the Public School Code — is unsustainable in the long-term.” Pennsylvania audit finds 'extreme dysfunction' in Scranton schools 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It means that we continue to play a shell game on how to pay for about $700 billion in health care for people who can’t or don’t pay for some or all of their care. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Instead, what we get is a financial shell game. Perspective | The Republicans’ Obamacare repeal is one big lie 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “It is a shell game of documents being shifted over to the library. These documents are the smoking gun that investigators are looking for, and everyone knows it.” Susan Rice records intelligence committee wants are locked in Obama archive 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z That is not relief; it’s a shell game. Sound Transit can afford car-tab tax cut 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z But Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association in Washington DC, says that Trump’s proposal “a shell game”. Trump budget would slash science programmes across government 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Missiles are fired from multiple launch sites around the country and moved about on mobile launchers in an elaborate shell game meant to deceive adversaries. Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z “This is a classic kind of shell game; this is done all the time in political circles,” Baker said. Trump tax plan could save him millions under guise of helping small businesses 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The valuation shell game: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret. Tech Roundup: Julian Assange as Tech Companies’ Defender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “This sounds like a really inappropriate shell game of a political pay-roller’s salary coming from funds for fraud and abuse — sort of ironic — and the group health fund,” said Harris, a Chicago Democrat. Employee health fund tapped for Illinois official's salary 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z One might conclude that implementation of No Child Left Behind and Common Core has been nothing but a shell game to delegitimize public schools in an effort to redirect public money. Editorials from around New England 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z If you’re wondering why insurers substantially increased premiums for this year, even far beyond the underlying health care inflation rate — now at around 4 percent — this shell game with risk is your answer. The G.O.P.’s Health Care Death Spiral 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z To borrow the words of the former chief counsel to Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign, Matthew T. Sanderson, “It sounds like a shell game to me.” Jared Kushner’s Trumpian Divestment Strategy 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “It sounds like a shell game to me,” Mr. Sanderson said. Jared Kushner Will Sell Many of His Assets, but Ethics Lawyers Worry 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z I will admit that Trump is pretty good at the shell game. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z If this sounds like a shell game, that’s because it is. Egypt’s Failed Revolution 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The SEC's 2013 lawsuit alleged the city's "shell game" helped it win favorable ratings for its bonds and exposed bondholders to substantial risk of losses. Judge slashes SEC's proposed fine for ex-Miami budget director 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z “The location shell game they used before has collapsed.” Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming Waterboarding 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z So much in life has become a shell game. Those Hidden College Fees 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Goodell’s excuse for why he didn’t act more firmly with Brown is nothing but a shell game, willful misdirection: He claims he didn’t have enough information. In Roger Goodell’s NFL, end-zone dances matter more than domestic violence 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But today it’s a shell game – typically only two of the towers are manned at any time. 'It's a bloodbath': staff describe life inside America's most violent prison 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game. When a Country Melts 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z This is a shell game played both parties play, and it is legal. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z American taxpayers should demand Trump stop this financial shell game and release his income tax returns. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Good luck hoping to receive a fair share of taxes whether in Europe or the US with these masters of the universe in their shell game. Apple, Congress and the Missing Taxes 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z This trust-corporation configuration allows assets to be transferred back and forth in what Forbes once characterised as a “shell game extraordinaire”. How to hide it: inside the secret world of wealth managers | Brooke Harrington 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The city of Miami and its former budget director were found liable by a Florida jury on Wednesday for engaging in a financial shell game in a case brought by the U.S. Florida jury finds city of Miami liable in municipal bond case 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z At the Group of 20 summit meeting in China last weekend, President Obama reiterated his support for a cooperative global effort to end the international tax shell game. Elizabeth Warren: What Apple Teaches Us About Taxes 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z By wobbling on both his wall and mass deportation, the pillars of his immigration policy and thus his campaign, Trump has made clear he's just another shell game operator. Trump Lets the Curtain Slip 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z He calls the practice "a shell game" that puts policyholders and taxpayers at greater risk. Iowa at center of debate over 'shadow insurance' deals 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “I think that the industry is headed for serious trouble with this,” said Joseph M. Belth, a professor emeritus of insurance at Indiana University, who calls the practice “a shell game.” Iowa at center of debate over 'shadow insurance' deals 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "It's a shell game," said David Wolfe, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association's legislative director. AP NewsBreak: New questions over California water project 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The coalition believes that the new law is a “shell game,” with the same constitutional flaws that led the Supreme Court to strike down the first law. Coalition files new challenge to Washington’s charter-school law 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Step right up, folks, and try your luck at the shell game. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z "I think that the industry is headed for serious trouble with this," said Joseph M. Belth, a professor emeritus of insurance at Indiana University, who calls the practice "a shell game." Iowa at center of debate over 'shadow insurance' deals 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It stops becoming a business and turns into a shell game. The Downside of Merging Doctors and Hospitals 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Alongside the shell game sits an ancestral explanatory exercise: the biomorphs. The gene's still selfish: Dawkins' famous idea turns 40 - BBC News 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But the solution is a budget, not a shell game. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z "Mulholland's staggering fraud perpetrated on the investing public was built on an elaborate offshore shell game, which included his secret ownership of an offshore brokerage firm," Brooklyn U.S. Stock promoter pleads guilty in U.S. to $250 million scheme 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “So what they want to do is play a shell game with this money,” Mr. Cornyn said. Sen. John Cornyn: Dems want a ‘blank check’ for Zika 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “Obviously all the conduct involved is criminal” under federal law, said Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver, “and this shell game does nothing to change that.” Marijuana companies join forces to expand beyond state lines 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Klein, Goodman shows, was a virtuoso of this kind of swindle, not just selling the beans but keeping them moving, in a perpetual shell game. Paul McCartney’s Magnificent Melodic Gift 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The NRA, Koch brothers, Sheldon Aldelson types, Fox Noise and the majority of millionaires and billionaires have played this shell game for far too long. Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z He said it “almost seems like we’re trying to play a little bit of a shell game.” Alaska budget director raises issues with House proposals 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s like a simplified version of the shell game for animals. Crows Clever Enough to Learn a Shell Game 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “There is no shell game,” he said, swatting at Klayman’s suggestion there was. Feds Throw Kitchen Sink at NSA Lawsuits 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z There's kind of a semantic shell game here, as the promoters of the new economy trade on the whisper of romance that still clings to "gig." Word of the year candidate 'gig' reflects a new economic order 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z However the Los Angeles franchise shell game plays out - the Chargers and Raiders also filed this week to move to LA - the idea that an NFL team might be in financial difficulty is laughable. Column: Greed the motivator as NFL teams rush to LA 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Its reserves should not be used in a legislative funding shell game. Congress fails a simple test on transportation 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z He’s played this shell game of leaving lawyers and switching lawyers, and now he’s representing himself. Shut up and sell the hits: Jonathan Galkin on 15 years of DFA Records 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The report says the firm intends “to fight—in both the court of law and the court of public opinion—for redress of North Carolina’s obviously unlawful shell game of electoral apartheid.” Study: North Carolina polling site changes hurt blacks 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Researchers have set up versions of the shell game for dogs, hiding a treat under one of several cups but then clearly pointing to or tapping on the right one. The Verge Review of Animals: the dog 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z As I see it, it’s just a shell game.” McAuliffe: Virginia can expand Medicaid at no cost 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z What began as innovative and legitimate financial engineering progressed to a corporate shell game that met the letter of the law but flouted its spirit — and ultimately led to Enron’s collapse. You’re not as virtuous as you think 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “They are very nervous that it’s a shell game, that they won’t get the full sanctions relief they expect, and European companies in particular will be nervous investing in Iran.” Why this Sunday is a significant day for the Iran nuclear deal 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Campaign-finance shell games are not uncommon, but even by the standards of American elections, Team Rubio is pushing the envelope in unusually brazen ways. Rubio touts 'sunlight' while keeping his financing in the shadows 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z "Free is a real issue. This whole thing about freemium, maybe at one time we needed it. But now it’s a shell game," Iovine said. Jimmy Iovine wants Apple to save the world from free music 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z He called Milligan’s campaign finance reporting “vague and misleading” and a “shell game” in previous interviews. Ethics panel allows treasurer to fix campaign complaints 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s not surprising Tallahassee did not bring up this shell game. Florida editorial roundup 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a shell game, plain and simple, with one branch of the federal government “paying back” another branch when those “borrowings” come due. The Social Security shell game 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Requiring the council to pay parks was a “shell game,” Stone said. Park Service doesn’t always profit from sale of public bison 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “There is a shell game of sorts going on,” said Jennifer Hecker, director of natural resource policy for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Florida Legislature Has Its Own Ideas for Voter-Approved Conservation Fund 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z So calling it a slowdown is a bit of a misnomer; it’s more like a global warming shell game. State of the Earth in Four Climate Trends 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “The whole thing is just a classic shell game.” Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The victims of this shell game include companies in each of the 21 broad U.S. manufacturing industry classifications used by the government to compiles statistics. The Export-Import Bank's Hidden Tax On America's Companies 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s a shell game, and it’s going to be very interesting to see if Michonne and Rick end up together down the line, with her having essentially absorbed Andrea’s essence. The Strangeness Of Reading 'The Walking Dead' Comics 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z In a giant fiscal shell game, President Obama wants to pump these fictitious savings into expanding other higher-ed subsidies such as Pell grants. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "It's always been a fault in our system that defendants were able to play a shell game and delay things," she said. Families of serial killing victims to urge trial to start 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It all seems an elaborate shell game, with S&P shareholders the immediate losers. Je Suis S&P: Government's Chilling Effect on Credit Rating Agencies 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Like a shell game, a good transfer pricing system manipulates exactly where a company group’s profits will end up. Tax Hater Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deal Attacked As Illegal 2013-10-30T04:00:00Z Belichick so exploited the rules on eligible receivers with rapid personnel shuffles that he created a shell game. NFL division round: thrilling finishes, unsatisfying answers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z American banks reliably accommodate financial shell games, and when these banks are caught facilitating offshore criminality the U.S. Can Corruption Be Eradicated? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Regardless of who made the money, courts here generally stick to 50/50 settlements and lifetime alimony payments while showing zero tolerance for hide-the-asset shell games and only limited appreciation for prenups. Eye-popping settlements burnish London’s rep as world’s divorce capital 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Watkins and other critics of the tax consider it a shell game because taxpayers ultimately are still footing the bill through the state levies that fund reimbursements to the localities. GOP claims that Va.’s car-tax relief is in danger are wrong, McAuliffe’s office says 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The front-and-center bigotry on display in the original inflammatory comments is, quite often, preferable to the racial shell game we find ourselves playing with empty public apologies. We're Doing Bigotry Wrong 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The shell game started with the Balanced Budget Agreement of 1997 when Congress required cuts in federal payments to physicians who treat Medicare patients in order to bring spending more in line with inflation. It's Time To End The Doc Fix Dance And Move On To Real Reform 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Considered in the light of other evidence, however, they do help illuminate the shell game surrounding Obamacare, whereby the administration and the media inflate the law’s achievements and hide its growing costs from American taxpayers. CDC: White House Is Exaggerating Obamacare Coverage Gains 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The reporters involved were clearly not clued into the billing-discounting-reimbursement shell game described above, so they wrote their pieces as veritable babes in the woods. Big Health Insurance: Obamacare's Worst Bad Guys 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z “This corporate shell game allows corporations to deny responsibility for basic worker rights like pay, benefits, and working conditions.” California Legislature passes bill to protect temp workers 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z But there’s a huge shell game going on. In Baltimore, new casino will be fueled by pension checks, minimum-wage earnings “For them, it ends up being part of a shell game.” Despite 2012 law, casino interests and Md. candidates remain intertwined “Bureaucrats and special interest groups treat that as a solution. I believe it’s a shell game,” said Mr. Pearce. Westerners call for oversight to combat federal land managers 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z There’s really only one solution to this shell game, and it goes back to what Uncle Milt was saying above: all of us paying for our own health care services with our own money. Big Health Insurance: Obamacare's Worst Bad Guys 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z This suggests that it’s cutting back on the shell game played by big tech companies that try to count as much revenue as possible in tax-friendly locales. Microsoft reveals Surface Mini writeoff, phone sales 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s a bit of a shell game, though. The Crazy Way the Government Buys Billions of Dollars of Drugs 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Think of it as a big shell game. What are Jeff Bezos and Amazon Really Up To? 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z But in a release Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue, D-Wake, said the proposal “merely plays shell games with classroom resources. Our students, parents, and teachers deserve better than this plan.” NC Senate Republicans defend budget choices 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z One staff member, who said he was dismissed after expressing concern about this shell game, complained to the California attorney general’s office. Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z This isn’t an economic magic trick or some kind of corrupt shell game. The World’s Mania for Economic Data Is Pretty Silly 2014-05-09T09:53:13Z He also exposes it as the chancy shell game that it really is. Jenkins: Johnny Manziel isn’t a perfect NFL fit, but the right team might consider some tailoring 2014-05-07T18:18:30Z “The overall occupancy of the city and the state isn’t going to change because of this. It will be a big shell game.” Delaware Is Building a Strategy to Lift Local Economies 2014-04-22T17:59:34Z The drug suit and stay appeals are “shell games designed to delay the punishment handed down by a jury for the brutal murders,” said Diane Clay, a spokeswoman for the office. Wrangle Over Oklahoma Executions Bounces From Court to Court 2014-04-21T18:00:18Z But fishing vessels and seafood processors rely on a shell game to deliver illegal and unreported catch to U.S. ports. Seafood study: Up to 32 percent imported to U.S. is caught illegally 2014-04-20T18:57:14Z Terrence Deacon articulates this well in Emergentism is simply playing a shell game, taking the mysticism it purports to explain, and calling it “emergence.” What Are Some Concise Ways To Convince People That Consciousness Is Not An Emergent Property? 2014-04-16T16:35:00Z If this were a shell game, the dog would have a fifty-fifty shot of picking the right cup. How Smart Is That Doggy in the Window? 2014-04-13T09:45:34Z In private conversations, she’d told him about her mounting anxiety that rather than educating its recruited athletes, UNC was playing a shell game to keep them from needing to study at all. In Fake Classes Scandal, UNC Fails Its Athletes—and Whistle-Blower 2014-02-27T10:56:31Z I also described it as a “shell game” and wondered how the management of the bankrupt insurer would ever be able to sell off enough pieces of the company to repay the government. My motto: ‘Fresh mistakes, every year’ 2014-02-07T15:42:10Z One, I think doing that in the absence of taking on homophobia, trans-phobia in the United States is a shell game. Most corrupt Olympics ever: Why Sochi’s “above and beyond” what we’ve seen before 2014-02-07T13:30:00Z It wouldn’t be a new operating system if Apple didn’t play a shell game with the location of your phone’s privacy features. 10 Cool Features Hiding in iOS 7 2013-09-25T11:05:23Z This is all just one big shell game aimed at pushing off the problems until the future.” Errors Cast Doubt on Japan’s Cleanup of Nuclear Accident Site 2013-09-04T02:25:54Z “It became like a shell game trying to figure out which ball boy had the right ball,” she said. If It Works, Tennis Players Stick With It, Whatever It Is 2013-08-31T16:23:22Z "Usually these are penny stocks of shell companies that don't exist or have no business, so it's a way of creating a shell game for illicit funds," Lynch said. FINRA fines Oppenheimer $1.4 million over penny stocks, internal controls 2013-08-05T19:16:59Z “The effect of the government's shell game,” he said, “is that the statute has been shielded from judicial review, and controversial and far-reaching surveillance authorities have been placed beyond the reach of the Constitution.” Double Secret Surveillance 2013-07-15T15:20:12Z As a result, some critics have the deal as a “shell game scam” that does little to advance the cause of transparency. Google Challenges NSA Secrecy in FISA Court 2013-06-19T02:35:31Z Alexander Abdo of the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped bring the Supreme Court case, said the government’s shifting stance amounted to “playing a shell game with Americans’ privacy rights.” Mining of Data Is Called Crucial to Fight Terror 2013-06-08T01:45:13Z "This is like a shell game to me," said Logue, co-chair of the assembly health committee, who predicted that taxes would go up to pay for the subsidies, forcing other prices to rise. California reveals prices for health insurance under Obamacare 2013-05-23T22:13:10Z David Sobel, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the government is playing “a shell game.” Group wants special court to release ruling on unlawful U.S. surveillance 2013-05-22T17:41:34Z Fine Print: Nuclear shell games Obama’s effort to reduce weapons hits one roadblock after another. Holder says he recused himself from AP leak investigation 2013-05-14T18:19:00Z The story AP suspects led to move Fine Print: Nuclear shell games Obama’s effort to reduce weapons hits one roadblock after another. Obama dismisses criticism of Benghazi talking points as a “sideshow” 2013-05-14T01:00:14Z Mr. Burd uses data from the Education Department to argue that many colleges “are engaged in an elaborate shell game.” Economix Blog: Q.&A. on the ‘Shell Game’ of College Aid 2013-05-10T13:00:41Z There is a name for a shell game like that, and in the private sector, people go to jail for long periods of time for knowingly cheating their clients out of their hard-earned money. A New Idea to Fix the Retirement-Savings Crisis 2013-04-17T16:20:35Z “Until we address the problem of overwork, we’re just playing a shell game.” Doctor and Patient: Doing the Math on Resident Work Hours 2013-04-18T04:01:04Z It doesn’t save money; it’s a shell game that just pushes costs around. “Fiscal cliff” cruelty 2012-12-10T14:00:00Z “Why is it I need to spend hours every day shuffling cash and loans from entity to entity?” she wrote in an e-mail in August, describing the process as a “shell game.” Common Sense: Trustee Suggests MF Global Misused Customers’ Money 2012-06-08T14:18:40Z “It’s a shell game, and the problem is the regulators buy off on this stuff, and then when it implodes, they always look so stupid,” said Lynn E. Turner, the former chief accountant at the . DealBook: MF Global Dodged Capital Requirements, Study Says 2012-06-06T01:37:24Z Authorities said the companies have evaded past federal efforts by playing another common curb side trick: the shell game. Several curb side bus companies shut down by federal authorities 2012-05-31T17:28:00Z “Our position is that this is a shell game,” said Chris Thomas, general counsel for the Arizona School Boards Association. Scholarship Funds, Meant for Needy, Benefit Private Schools 2012-05-22T02:37:18Z But Riverkeeper group members and some other environmentalists say that nutrient trading is a shell game that will allow more pollution to creep into the bay. Bay cleanup plan has environmental groups at odds 2012-04-29T20:55:04Z They win with field position, by sustaining drives and forcing turnovers, and by being relentlessly efficient on offense while surviving an endless shell game on defense. The Fifth Down: Super Bowl XLVI Matchups 2012-02-03T19:56:23Z The report, which was provided with technical support from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, called the Bloomberg administration’s school closing policy a “shell game.” SchoolBook: On City Hall Steps, Harsh Words for Bloomberg 2012-01-27T23:33:30Z If the 2008 crash taught us anything, it’s that our economic system is fundamentally flawed, and not just because of shell game financial shenanigans with little oversight. Holiday Shopping Rebellion: Anticonsumerism and Passing "Peak Stuff" 2011-12-07T18:26:36Z It’s a shell game — a thinly veiled attempt to appear to put revenue on the table while simultaneously removing far more with massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans. Both Sides on Deficit Panel Seeking to Avoid Blame 2011-11-09T04:24:14Z The chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees money for Health and Human Services says the administration is playing a shell game. INSIDE WASHINGTON: A budget zombie? Gov?t puts program on hold, but claims savings 2011-10-08T13:03:45Z “What makes me angry is that it’s become a shell game.” Gotham: Managers Pushed for Fake Job-Placement Figures, Ex-Workers Say 2011-09-27T01:20:08Z “It’s a bit of a shell game,” Masswohl said by phone. EU Pits Alberta Beef Against Quebec Dairy in Canada Trade Talks 2011-09-02T21:23:01Z Of course, companies have always played a sort of shell game with workers and revenues. Profit on Wall Street, recession on Main Street 2011-08-24T16:48:47Z Books of magic are displayed, and conjurers' outfits—shell games and disappearing rabbits. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z As such, his performance was one part shell game, one part blame-game misdirection, and lots of false hustle. Merkel-Sarkozy Summit: Fiddling While Europe Burns 2011-08-16T05:35:00Z Instead, there is the shell game being played by general manager Otis Smith, the one that turned the really bad contract of Rashard Lewis into the really, really bad contract of Gilbert Arenas. Winderman: Howard's one-man Magic act has limits 2011-04-20T22:17:58Z There's always someone out there crying bubble, it seems; the trick is figuring out when it's easy money—and when it's a shell game. Will Social Networks Pop? 2011-04-14T21:00:03Z Basically, he was early to recognize that Wall Street's system of credit default swaps was just a shell game--shift risk around, not eliminating it. Real Estate: Will Home Prices Rebound in 2011? 2010-12-30T06:40:00Z But this shell game isn't really a shell game when there are only two shells. PFT 10-pack: Vikings should be in panic mode 2010-09-20T23:58:00Z As word of the plan spread, some denounced it as a shell game and a blatant effort by state leaders to avoid making difficult decisions, like cutting government spending or reducing pension benefits. State Wants to Borrow From Pension Fund, to Pay the Fund 2010-06-12T01:14:00Z You played an immature shell game with those six college hats you placed in front of you at the news conference you held at your high school last month. Prep basketball star Terrence Jones has shown immaturity during recruiting process 2010-05-21T05:53:00Z It was a financial shell game that involved overdrafts so massive, say authorities, that two Guatemalan banks are now insolvent and the country's only state-run mortgage bank is teetering on collapse. Guatemala Ex-President Portillo to Face Charges in U.S. 2010-03-18T22:25:00Z “Sadly,” he said, “the application may well be undermined by legislative shell games.” 2010-01-19T07:58:00Z Steelers coach Mike Tomlin finally has a chance to play a shell game the way it was designed -- with three possible receptacles for the tiny red ball. PFT 10-pack: Vikings should be in panic mode 2010-09-20T23:58:00Z “You know and I know that every inch of this place is a shell game to get people’s money,” he said. 2010-01-11T03:03:00Z Even in this here simple little shell game I got to have a podner. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective But the operator of the shell game had caught sight of the bills, and it was like the scent of blood to the tiger. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Psionics hadn't done away with anything including the old shell game. The Big Fix My impression was that if he had said "shell game" he would have more accurately stated his case. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 I mind once me poor, father and Katie went to a circus at Arnprior and father got into a bean and shell game. The Second Chance “I hate it, to have to say it,” said Mr. Critz, “but when I come to count over them bills I lent you to cap the shell game with, there was a five-dollar one short.” Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective One chap a navigator, able to sail a ship round the Horn, and yet he prefers to play the shell game at rural fairs. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! That is an old swindling trick, called the 'shell game'. The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences He works the shell game, and it got pretty hot for him after we left Cumberland. The Rose in the Ring Thank the Lord I ain't got no use for shell games of any kind. Bar-20 Days That night I went down to the circus tents and opened a small shell game. The Gentle Grafter |
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