So that 1.5 assumes that some of these gimmicks actually work, or aren't just gimmicks.
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Chris McCormick's new novel, "The Gimmicks," contains what might seem like a few gimmicks of its own, including forays into the worlds of competitive backgammon and professional wrestling.
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It's easy to decide that the ads are simply gimmicks.
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Note: Quirky wedding gimmicks are almost always a bad idea.
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There are no other gimmicks built into the LG G6.
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It's full of chunky, raw house with no unnecessary gimmicks.
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Facebook is reaching beyond marketing gimmicks for International Women's Day.
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Speaking of gimmicks, Edge Sense is back as well, naturally.
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And they did it without any fucking corny gimmicks, too.
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Without gimmicks or surgery, real people shed half their size!
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They discovered it was plagued by inefficiencies and annoying gimmicks.
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Look for more limited edition gimmicks as the summer continues.
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She even came through one of the worst gimmicks imaginable.
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It's half if you allow them to do accounting gimmicks.
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Smoke and Lennox's chemistry sell body positivity without any gimmicks.
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In short, when these shopping gimmicks are new, they're fun.
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Survivors aren't asking for any of these gimmicks, Carson argued.
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They're accounting gimmicks that allow earnings to be shifted abroad.
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These gimmicks involve the premature ending of numerous tax benefits.
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How many of them are gimmicks — like Alexa's dumb jokes?
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Gimmicks don't persuade or inspire; visible passion and conviction do.
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No gimmicks on the V30 Though I only got to handle the V30 for less than an hour, it's so great to see LG drop all the gimmicks and just make a really nice phone.
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There are still a lot of gimmicks around, to be sure.
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Apart from its basic purpose, Orison batteries have some interesting gimmicks.
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No bells and whistles, no gimmicks — just a damn good mascara.
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It never hits you over the head with novelty and gimmicks.
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Louis De Belle photographed magicians' gimmicks for his series Disappearing Objects.
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And we need real funding for this, not just tax gimmicks.
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Chris Christie -- who resorted to gimmicks but simply failed to shine.
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Though bizarre gimmicks on the Senate floor are alive and well.
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"Hardware shouldn't mean gimmicks," noted Slava Solonitsyn, managing partner of Ruvento.
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So let's stop playing games and wasting taxpayer money on gimmicks.
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Good as the bubbles and dancing were, comedy gimmicks define wrestlers.
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Beyond that, each pair offers its own perks, no gimmicks involved.
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Other clubs turn to gimmicks that have no real physical benefit.
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These are just two gimmicks that can be and are used.
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For now headphones like the Reflect Aware are gimmicks riding a trend.
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I refuse to cooperate with any of these post-capitalistic marketing gimmicks.
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Instead of these coming across as gimmicks, they work conceptually as well.
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They're gimmicks, and Google unwisely decided to build a phone around one.
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It's lightweight and doesn't overhaul the UI with too many visual gimmicks.
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"New Year, New You" overcomes this trap by emphasizing characters over gimmicks.
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Some artists, they got gimmicks with them and all this extra shit.
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Better still, it's free of ads, in-app purchases and other gimmicks.
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It's a sport that might have started as gimmicks or publicity stunts.
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As far as smartphone gimmicks go, CSX is a pretty fun one.
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Even though it was visually impressive, it didn't dissolve into Instagrammable gimmicks.
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The gimmicks didn't take, and it continued to languish on the market.
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Instead, the Clinton campaign too often chose gimmicks over real heartfelt messages.
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"I don't necessarily mind or get offended by the gimmicks," said Purr.
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I didn't expect much from Fortnite's crossover with Marvel, other than gimmicks.
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If cities don't get those core things right, docking gimmicks won't help.
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Lyft, the perennial underdog, will probably unfurl its own gimmicks as well.
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Anyone who has seen Saenchai can name the gimmicks of his game.
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It was couture for the casual, everyday era, without pandering or gimmicks.
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LG has Samsung beat on motion gimmicks that don't require a stylus.
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The endless commercials and gimmicks on television ruin the sports viewing experience.
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Now, the evolution of office design gimmicks is bringing us living walls.
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DON'T — WRITE A PROLOGUE Prologues are usually gimmicks to hook the reader.
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The federal government's ruinous path requires serious reforms, not tweaks and gimmicks.
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Other features within the Quick Settings app are more gimmicks than anything else.
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"Consumers are getting smarter about the gimmicks that are out there," Sides said.
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Speakers unearth motivational quotes, share childhood photos, and turn to other familiar gimmicks.
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Gimmicks can be applied to get around those budgetary conditions, to be sure.
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Political gimmicks meant to gain ephemeral electoral victories tend to backfire that way.
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As marketing gimmicks go, I'll take self-driving slippers over flamethrowers any day.
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No delays, no gimmicks, no loopholes, no shirking of responsibility — the real thing.
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Foldable smartphones have been a long time coming, and they're not just gimmicks.
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Some offers represented real bargains while others weren't much more than advertising gimmicks.
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Officials use them as campaign gimmicks or to carry a public service message.
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The earlier magicians, she said, didn't need to hide behind toys and gimmicks.
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You'd think such gimmicks a little juvenile and unsophisticated for good wine, right?
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Flimflam and phaseout gimmicks, rather than reform and loophole closing, make it work.
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With beautiful writing and engaging storytelling, The Gimmicks is not to be missed.
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Our historic and unsustainable debt cannot be fixed with more tweaks and gimmicks.
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But he didn't need gimmicks; at times, the videos shown behind him grew distracting.
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But aside from gimmicks, bitcoin's use as a real currency hasn't truly caught on.
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And while there's a lot of bad gimmicks, this, like dog data, is good.
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They don't try to tack on "immersive" bells and whistles or expanded-screen gimmicks.
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They have no guests, no ads, no themes, no gimmicks, and no cash grabs.
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Microsoft also doesn't have as many cool side gimmicks going for it as Sony.
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The gimmicks are used in plain sight, but they only work by evading detection.
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There are no tense eliminations or annoying gimmicks; no scripted blowouts or manipulated drama.
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There are no gimmicks: no 213K display, no touchscreen, no detachable or twisting body.
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Sunsetting the individual tax reforms appears to be the largest of those budget gimmicks.
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The American people want real change – not talking points, not gimmicks, not false promises.
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It is time Congress returned to ethical budget procedures and stop with the gimmicks.
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In a season full of gimmicks, this is perhaps the only truly scary one.
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This isn't Vegas, hell, it ain't even Reno, so there's no need for gimmicks.
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We asked drug dealers what similar marketing gimmicks they've pulled to drum up sales.
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"Yes, you can call them gimmicks," said Eliam Huang, an analyst at Coresight Research.
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It also ditches the motion control gimmicks of the G8 from earlier this year.
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What might previously have been dismissed as gimmicks are now headline features for Apple.
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Models from Razer, Lenovo, Acer and others prioritize performance and gimmicks over form factor.
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Jeff Flake has reason to be offended by the budget gimmicks in the bill.
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Did these reservations make a difference or were they gimmicks to keep activists subdued?
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I expect it to double down on tech gimmicks like the ethnic-name analyzer.
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The big theaters' solution has been to charge higher prices for gimmicks like 50D films.
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Some worry that the show is overrun by brands and their increasingly overblown marketing gimmicks.
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States nationwide have been raiding rainy-day funds and using other gimmicks to balance budgets.
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Dancing to victory It's not just the stragglers who are relying on flashy gimmicks, though.
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Not even gimmicks and tricks could save BBM as its users fled to other platforms.
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And they're more than fun gimmicks: They deep cleanse by infusing oxygen into your skin.
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It's a civil war between cheap budget gimmicks, and fiscal responsibility isn't even a consideration.
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Throughout, the trick is to translate gaming technology into meaningful art without resorting to gimmicks.
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Even some of his own employees have been caught by such gimmicks, Mr. Johnson added.
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Simply declaring something is not amnesty by adding fines or other gimmicks will not work.
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These landings are more than just gimmicks for SpaceX and other companies aiming for space.
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"Many state and local pension funds are hiding vast debts through accounting gimmicks," said Nunes.
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Despite the cartoony gimmicks, the New Generation wasn't bad at all, particularly the upper card.
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It has been divisive, misleading, unburdened by facts and prone to personality politics and gimmicks.
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That savagery is uncharacteristic of this Romeo anyway; it's just another of the production's gimmicks.
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Verma has called the arrangements industry-friendly gimmicks and wants to do away with them.
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Using rhetorical gimmicks to dismiss reasonable doubts may be clever but it is not informative.
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This hasty and ill-considered legislation generates many new opportunities for tax gimmicks and shenanigans.
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Their plan does so without gimmicks or questionable assumptions by raising revenue from progressive sources.
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Companies like Samsung are ripped apart for over-innovating with impractical gimmicks or copying others.
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How do you keep growing fast to satisfy investors without relying on short-lived gimmicks?
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Kids need to know that no matter how clever the gimmicks or games, they're all ads.
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I especially like how HyperX managed to deliver high-quality audio without any tricks or gimmicks.
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Using various electoral gimmicks, it guarantees that the largest party will command 54% of the seats.
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It had no gimmicks, no Fortune 500 company listed and wasn't folded into an origami airplane.
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Mrs May at least had a reputation as a dutiful public servant who eschewed flashy gimmicks.
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There are funny gimmicks, there are abstract concepts and then there are poop-themed dessert cafés.
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They are ready to pay for more expensive devices—and are less susceptible to marketing gimmicks.
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The most common intergovernmental accounting gimmicks involve provider taxes and supplemental payments above Medicaid reimbursement rates.
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Headline writers have repeatedly seized on scorekeeping gimmicks to draw unfavorable conclusions about the tax plan.
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But children are different, and not (as some skeptics have said) as gimmicks for public attention.
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Or, companies may use accounting gimmicks to book profits abroad rather than in the United States.
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Plain packaging requires tobacco products be sold without marketing gimmicks and with clearly displayed health warnings.
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" So things that may appear as techy gimmicks—such as a switch to toggle between "Mr.
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Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital but hard.
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It's surprisingly short, lacks imagination, and overly relies on gimmicks that prove more annoying than surprising.
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But the winner, Duncan Laurence, 290, opted for a more minimalist approach surprisingly devoid of gimmicks.
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"Hold On" transcends the limitations of Being Drake because it doesn't rely on gimmicks or trends.
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Lehman Brothers also got away with using accounting gimmicks to mask how much money it borrowed.
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Mr. Robot has always been fond of stylistic gimmicks, undertaken with a wink and a smile.
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Now it's art by algorithm, with artistry going with the whim of data analytics and gimmicks.
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Without compelling gameplay, the show's creators have decided to complicate the experience with gimmicks and reality stars.
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While some products like the Game One from Sennheiser are quite good, others are stuffed with gimmicks.
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So you can understand why it's refreshing as hell when new parents debut their baby sans gimmicks.
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The CW superhero universe can at times go overboard with the gimmicks, with crossovers and "event" episodes.
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More often than not, mystical, gemstone-infused, energetically-blessed beauty products are gimmicks (and they're everywhere lately).
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What Nixon had once dismissed as surface-level "gimmicks" Ailes recognized as the future of American politics.
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What matters is that Microsoft has built a computer that doesn't overextend itself with any gimmicks. Finally.
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A year and a half later, though, and these still feel more like gimmicks than must-haves.
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The good news is that we're here to help you sort through the workout trends and gimmicks.
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Instead, they've mostly just been cooking up increasingly more absurd gimmicks to get people in the door.
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No AR gimmicks were needed to remind everyone to wear appropriate eyewear while watching the solar phenomenon.
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A switch to a more traditional design might not be groundbreaking, but it'll jettison all the gimmicks.
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To balance their books, many states have relied on rainy-day funds and other one-time gimmicks.
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Louis de Belle exposed these gimmicks for what they are in his clever new book Disappearing Objects.
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The reality is there are no shortcuts or gimmicks that cancel the need for robust federal funding.
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Hotz dismisses these features as cheap gimmicks, though he's open to incorporating them into the final product.
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Again, this sounds like the stuff of cheap gimmicks, but the difference is simply one of quality.
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Gender games and techno-gimmicks (the wireless receivers built into Junya Watanabe's overcoats) can be a hoot.
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Nevertheless, many young voters want policy pledges to address job creation and youth unemployment, not campaign gimmicks.
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The 7.5-mile race from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco, needs no gimmicks.
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They want a functioning Congress that will actually pass a budget, not rely on gimmicks like sequestration.
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But history has shown more than once that control gimmicks are just that: temporary objects of fascination.
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Our public debt has been partially obfuscated by outside factors such as economic growth and budget gimmicks.
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I've used language gimmicks in several puzzles (recently used answer/clue: TRE – "It's over due in Italia").
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She's also a prankster and a provocateur, a peddler of cheap gimmicks and high-minded performance art.
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Be warned: A majority of pet tech products are ineffective gimmicks that probably aren't worth your money.
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The CBO's alternative fiscal scenario is a more accurate projection of Washington's proclivity to govern by gimmicks.
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In the funding release, founder and CEO Shane Scranton said IrisVR will help the industry move beyond gimmicks.
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Mr Hammond sensibly steered clear of the fiscal gimmicks and surprises so beloved of his predecessor, George Osborne.
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Remember the "Billionaires for Romney" and "Billionaires for Bush" gimmicks that Democrats used against Republicans in past elections?
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"There are no alien parades, alien dog costume contests or other gimmicks," Torres, of Edinburg, Texas, tells PEOPLE.
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They are more tolerant of hagglers and are resorting to gimmicks, including Black Friday discounts, to boost sales.
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I'm just trying to make sure some of the gimmicks that we typically use, we deal with honestly.
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Naomi faces an uphill battle for recognition, and given the lack of gimmicks and gags, so does Equity.
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To most Americans, the purposes to which these gimmicks are put will seem as outlandish as the lexicon.
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It's easy to miss the magnitude of the change, since many of these Things seem like mere gimmicks.
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But whether or not these high-tech, personalized options are gimmicks or actually helpful is up for debate.
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Consumer demand for cars has also leveled off, with automakers resorting to incentives and gimmicks to lift sales.
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Instead the show just seems as if it's constructed of gimmicks and dynamics borrowed from other crime shows.
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But Chairman Cochran made it clear from the start that there would be no gimmicks in this bill.
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Policymakers should continue to ignore these calls to use repatriation holidays and similar gimmicks to pay for infrastructure.
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Unlike many hockey voices, he never resorted to cheap gimmicks or silly catch phrases to make himself known.
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Now 75, she has made more than 100 wedding cakes, and is not afraid to fight off gimmicks.
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Both of these AR Doodle effects are a blast to play with, but they are also basically gimmicks.
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Reshuffling the plot is a way of making "Little Women" more cinematic without resorting to tricks or gimmicks.
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Even when a production of "Romeo" is cluttered with gimmicks, a persuasive lead couple can overcome the excess.
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The crowded field has left some wondering which ones are necessary and which ones are just marketing gimmicks.
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How do we get past the gimmicks and create something just as powerful as lived memories or lucid dreams?
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"There are a lot of dating apps out there and a lot of gimmicks out there," said Cohen-Aslatei.
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We don't focus on gimmicks, rather we wake up every day thinking how the singing experience can be improved.
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We watch for gimmicks like Adam Jr., the creepy French doll who appeared on this season of The Bachelorette.
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Both spots pitch Delaney to Iowa voters as a pragmatic, no-gimmicks lawmaker willing to work across the aisle.
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Various new gimmicks have been brought in to spice up the experience like 3D, luxury seating, and rumble chairs.
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Without any gimmicks — just through healthy eating and exercise — our 2018 Half Their Size stars shed hundreds of pounds.
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He used the phrase to explain why incumbents often confuse new, disruptive threats to their businesses with trivial gimmicks.
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From magic mirrors to selfie walls, retailers' haphazard attempts to court millennial shoppers have not been short on gimmicks.
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Once inside, the walls are lined with gimmicks like paintings that talk but freakishly look like real oil paintings.
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We can assume that social media companies just use the data for fun gimmicks like that Snapchat puppy thing.
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Other bands have had costumes, live gimmicks, fake personas—but in the past, that seemed to complement the music.
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But while Corn was actually entertaining, we really don't need these gimmicks anymore to stay tuned week-to-week.
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The legislation was financed through a series of budgetary gimmicks, underscoring the challenge of finding long-term funding solutions.
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That's culminated in one of the most delightful gimmicks of the decade with their baroque, strange Broken Hardys work.
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The success of television saw a need for variety and new matches, new moves, new gimmicks, and fresher stories.
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A rival store came along, a price war ensued and the owners of each added gimmicks to attract customers.
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I will absolutely continue to use these products on all of my cars simply because they work without gimmicks.
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Mr. Diaz tells her story without flashbacks or gimmicks, with a plainness that masks the complexity of his ambitions.
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The Trump proposal was roundly criticized for relying on rosy economic predictions and accounting gimmicks to reach those goals.
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Maybe "Prison Break" has always been thus, but somehow the setting for this season makes the gimmicks seem childish.
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It is not new for hoaxes to be used as marketing gimmicks, particularly in the age of social media.
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Instead, Congress financed the measure with a series of accounting gimmicks, such as shifting funds from the Federal Reserve.
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Accounting gimmicks have put bottom lines in-line on paper for decades, all while creating huge and damaging deficits.
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A few friends have urged the artist to take Rich Forks in the agitational direction of his past gimmicks.
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Ryan and Murray both made an effort to avoid gimmicks: They refused to use any OCO spending for defense.
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I think gimmicks like this in a Friday or Saturday are fun and add something to otherwise-themeless puzzle.
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Even worse ... the virgin gimmicks quickly escalated from a chat to full-blown costumes just to land the joke.
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Bartending robots are a favorite stunt for cruises and Vegas gimmicks, slinging drinks with mechanical arms and slick lighting.
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Doughnut shops have been known to come up with some strange gimmicks, from turducken-style donuts to Pokémon Go donuts.
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Sheriff Joe's gimmicks "weren't doing it for him any more", summarises David Berman, a political scientist at Arizona State University.
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With smartwatches and phones gaining activity tracking capabilities, dedicated fitness trackers have needed to find new gimmicks to stay relevant.
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He didn't need any marketing gimmicks—his well-deserved reputation as one of skateboarding's most notorious enforcers set him apart.
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But earlier this week, a new piece of VR tech reminded me why the headsets are much more than gimmicks.
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But VR is just the latest in a long line of gimmicks meant to distract from the tedium of exercise.
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This phone is slim, well built, performs well, and the dual-camera system isn't trying to push any unnecessary gimmicks.
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Krispy Kreme just announced four new premium doughnuts, and they sound more elaborate than any of the brand's previous gimmicks.
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Some Republicans who voted against the bill cited the funding gimmicks in the omnibus as a reason for their opposition.
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Maybe Marshmello is trying to remind us what really matters at music festivals by making a joke about onstage gimmicks.
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Then these recommendations should be put before Congress for an up-or-down vote with no procedural gimmicks or amendments.
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To maintain growth, today's Gillette has to keep coming up with gimmicks, even sometimes at the expense of the truth.
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But the gimmicks are well suited to his music: eerie, psychedelic synth pop, with melodies tweaked by robotic-sounding effects.
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Season four is in many ways the most poignant yet, though it lacks the theatrical gimmicks of the underwater episode.
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"There's no hidden costs and there's no gimmicks," Tom Ward, Walmart's senior vice president of digital operations, said in September.
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Gimmicks aside, some eateries have cut back on hours because of the decrease in demand and others have shuttered temporarily.
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Instead, it relied on accounting gimmicks to greatly inflate the Clean Power Plan's projected costs and slash its expected benefits.
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When populism succeeds, it does so not by cosmetic gimmicks but by going after the roots of economic injustice directly.
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Japan was an early leader of this movement, pushing e-waste recycling with tough laws and, more recently, appealing gimmicks.
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Samsung loves to lade on all sorts of gimmicks into its camera, and it's impossible to keep them all straight.
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Instead of psychology, it gives most of the wives gimmicks: One's a first-time marijuana smoker, another a karate enthusiast.
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Some gimmicks are merely that—a weird way to play—while others, like this, prompt existential questions about the universe.
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The Verge's review of the LG G8 ThinQ in April said the phone had many gimmicks, but not enough progress.
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By committing real federal funds, not relying on gimmicks, Senate Democrats have shown they value investment in our nation's infrastructure.
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But his complex fiction lost many readers and caused some critics to accuse him of sacrificing character for literary gimmicks.
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He complained that congressional leaders have tried in the past to hide the true cost of spending with budgetary gimmicks.
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At the end of the day, Edge Sense 2 and the pressure-sensitive buttons are gimmicks most people could do without.
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John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter: Extravagant action choreography makes the most of colorful set design, unlikely gimmicks and wrasslin'-style brutality.
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That cheesy, nostalgic tone mixed with his recent social media gimmicks became prime territory for someone to create a parody account.
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Usually when a smartphone has a ton of features, they're gimmicks you'll try once (at most) and then never use again.
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But they're mostly gimmicks; I tried them out and I don't think I'd ever feel the urge to use them again.
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Quirk is best known for "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", so its employees obviously have a knack for attention-grabbing gimmicks.
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The trio described themselves simply as "smart athletic friends" on social media and in interviews—no racist tropes, no tired gimmicks.
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"It has to be about functions to the customer, not gimmicks," he says, regarding how Dyson built the vacuum's feature set.
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Snuka had those gimmicks, too, but he eventually became a babyface after feuding with Lou Albano; he stayed face after that.
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On its own ridiculous, meaningless terms, Inferno is a cornucopia of hacky plot gimmicks served up with shameless brio: Memory loss!
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But to do this, the Latino community needs bold leadership from our public elected officials, not pandering and short-term gimmicks.
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It, too, had a variety of corny gimmicks, coupled with an obsession with bringing in has beens from WWE's Hulkamania era.
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In a campaign of gimmicks and insults, he gets attention by traveling with cardboard cutouts of his opponents -- GOP US Reps.
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It's since undergone four price cuts, an auction attempt, and various marketing gimmicks — like offering Air Jordans included with the home.
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Their gimmicks may be fun at first, but at some point the clutter of cats on every page might get old.
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Truth be told, the show's embrace of twists and time-hopping gimmicks is what holds me back from fully embracing it.
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The gimmick forces Jenny to confront how she's acquiesced to indulging racist gimmicks, despite being the proud daughter of immigrant parents.
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The Pentagon's adjustments could well be "accounting gimmicks to reconcile accounts, fine — or something else, I don't know," Professor Skidmore said.
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Luscious though it all was, the stuffing had been let out; couture for the casual everyday era, without pandering or gimmicks.
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Third, the bill responds to the staggering complexity of our tax code with a Pandora's box of new tax planning gimmicks.
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A more sober league, dedicated to football, not gimmicks, starts up this weekend, 25 years after the old league shut down.
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The Pixel 4 is a snappy, responsive device that can make your life easier without wasting your time with dumb gimmicks.
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And we should reduce the cost of prescriptions by cracking down on the gimmicks drug makers use to game the system.
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" Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that the tax-cut advocates will get any additional supply-side growth bonus for the "gimmicks.
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What is worse is the budget decline occurred after Cuomo used gimmicks to hide the poor state of New York finances.
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There were no gimmicks like the faux movie trailer predicting economic growth the President commissioned to show Kim on an iPad.
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He also denounced the budget gimmicks in previous versions of the bill that were designed to obscure its true fiscal effects.
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Have we encountered styling gimmicks like bellows pockets on dresses or multiple belts lashed around male torsos like harnesses run amok?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Struggling with declining foot traffic, traditional mall retailers are debuting gimmicks and side businesses to get shoppers through their doors.
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Learning to spot these tricks will help you actually do better by the planet—and avoid wasting your money on marketing gimmicks.
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There's no question that top Republicans are desperately in search of budget gimmicks and rosy economic projections to make it all work.
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Fun though they are, these types of gimmicks are unlikely to change the fundamental calculus made by travellers choosing where to stay.
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There are no timers, goofy animations, or charismatic hosts, but you do get an unending supply of trivia questions without any gimmicks.
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Blessedly short on the gimmicks favoured by many of his predecessors in the Treasury, its most significant chapter was on official forecasts.
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Still, considering all the tech, LG has made an flagship-worthy smartphone here... if you can find it under all the gimmicks.
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Google is celebrating its 20th birthday and, gimmicks aside, it's a good excuse to consider how staggeringly massive the company has become.
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Magicians in Milan let De Belle borrow their gimmicks to photograph them on the condition that he not reveal how they work.
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But Snoop is also always effortlessly good: he hustles hard, a man who partakes in gimmicks yet remains immune to becoming one.
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Nevertheless, it has resisted calls to stop using toys, cartoons and other gimmicks to make its Happy Meals more appealing to children.
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In the final game, there are many gimmicks or design choices that play on the player's desire to try to collect everything.
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Flake told National Public Radio he was concerned about "gimmicks," but liked other parts of the bill, especially the corporate tax cut.
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The V20 can't do that, so instead it tries to appeal to power users with specialized hardware and, yes, some lingering gimmicks.
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But HTC is going to need a whole lot more than squeezable gimmicks and shiny finishes to lift out of these doldrums.
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A total of 238 cities submitted applications for HQ2, some relying on gimmicks and others on tax incentives to woo Jeff Bezos.
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Part of the key to Oliver's appeal is her accessibility: she writes blank verse in a conversational style, with no typographical gimmicks.
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This World Cup may already have too many gimmicks for some tastes, and an increase in credibility is unlikely to happen overnight.
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There should be no more gimmicks, strained interpretations, covert waivers, or search for loopholes to undermine the law in favor of refiners.
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Gimmicks and ads Until its modernization plan, Burger King had been pushing gimmicky products, including a Halloween burger that gives you nightmares.
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So our entire economy is essentially a house of cards, built on outdated assumptions and pushed along with gimmicks like quantitative easing.
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Both parties want to avoid engaging in budgetary gimmicks or exceeding the $49.1 billion cap for the DHS funding bill being negotiated.
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And Marshmello's looks so childish that it almost seems like a mockery of our willingness to buy into these types of gimmicks.
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Over the last few years, some critics have accused the women-only trend of being more concerned with marketing gimmicks than safety.
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Gimmicks like today's Stranger Things tie-in clearly show that Google knows it still needs to create more awareness for the app.
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In response, nearly every council in Britain has cut or outsourced services, sold off assets and tried a host of budget gimmicks.
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" Jim Johnson, a former undersecretary of the United States Treasury, said, "We cannot adopt Wall Street gimmicks to address Main Street problems.
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But for Trump, it's always gimmicks and lies: tax cuts and increased budget spending that are paid for by rising public debt.
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As was the case in 85033, accounting gimmicks and executive orders fall far short of the Hyde standard and must be rejected.
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The threat has pushed Congress to routinely rely on short term budget gimmicks like Continuing Resolutions, followed by short-term budget deals.
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Or, alternately, they could abandon the democratic project, and attempt to enshrine minoritarian rule though procedural gimmicks and a rejection of accountability.
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Budget hawks say they are gimmicks because they expect that any future Congress would feel intense political pressure to renew the credits.
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Far from its previous anti-capitalist marketing gimmicks, "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" is a real-world salvo against the current administration.
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Square Feet The crowded field of third-party certifications has left some wondering which are necessary and which are just marketing gimmicks.
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Every truly great fighter you can think of had a few tricks on the inside and a few gimmicks in the clinch.
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The LG V30 ticks almost all the design, spec, and feature boxes while deftly avoiding the gimmicks that have plagued LG's previous efforts.
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With the S7, Samsung has also focused on practical improvements, rather than the flashy gimmicks that defined its software layer for so long.
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Because a simple thing like a hard, flat top is entirely more useful for travel than gimmicks like the ridiculous-looking motorized Modobag.
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Gone are the modular gimmicks of the G5; gone are the wildly unnecessary features such as the second screen on the LG V20.
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Each production is firmly grounded in the period in which it is set: Mr Dodin has no truck with anachronistic costumes or gimmicks.
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It had a couple of gimmicks and was rather enormous, but it was definitely one of the better Android devices of the year.
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Over the course of the next several days, McConnell will try to pry reluctant members loose from their opposition with gimmicks and kickbacks.
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This is an organization that doesn't need to pander to lowest common denominator ratings gimmicks at the exclusion of doing the right thing.
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Dropped at the start of an apparently endless path of randomized traps and gimmicks, players tap and hold the screen to move forward.
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Even with its budget gimmicks and fantasy economic growth projections, the new law will add over $1 trillion to the debt by 2028.
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Retailers have been inventing new gimmicks to get you into their stores and purchasing their wares since there have been items to purchase.
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Their keto bowls tasted more like marketing gimmicks than specially-designed keto dishes, just renamed dishes you could already order at each restaurant.
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Make it clear from the outset: no gimmicks, no hidden rebates or discounts, just an easy-to-understand, bottom-line cost of service.
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It would also help explain whether these were legitimate business losses or "accounting gimmicks and abusive tax shelters," as Mr. Rosenthal put it.
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It doesn't rely on gimmicks to be effective and relevant and instead looks to simple and efficient ingredients to get the job done.
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KALL He needs to show the audience that he can do more than deliver quippy sound bites and engage in campaign giveaway gimmicks.
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Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, "Villains" is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance.
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Under no circumstances should tax reform lose money, nor should we disguise the true long-term cost of tax cuts with budget gimmicks.
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These schemes are often orchestrated through apps like Slack or Telegram, he adds, and advises curious chatroom readers to beware of such gimmicks.
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Some of its most touted features might feel more like gimmicks, and I definitely miss a few features limited to the pricier Pro.
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The G8 is a good phone that packs more power, but it's the slipperiest phone I've ever used and has some silly gimmicks.
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Virtually every special interest won everything it wanted, as we added trillions to the national debt to pay for these gimmicks and loopholes.
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Also driving the premiums are gimmicks like renting Citi Field and paying Mets players for a meet-and-greet with real estate lawyers.
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This was the start of the family era: Simultaneously, the company stopped trying to compete with its rivals on having the best graphics and began to push innovative hardware and software gimmicks instead, as seen in this ad for 2011's Nintendo 3DS ... ... and this montage of features for the ill-fated Nintendo Wii U: Viewed in this context, that viral Nintendo Switch video takes on a lot more meaning: The players shown in it are more diverse than ever, and the focus is on the human effect of the console's gimmicks — more than the neatness of the gimmicks themselves.
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More and more episodes of every season of Family Guy are taken over by these kinds of format-shifting — if not format-shattering — gimmicks.
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Yet with some of those cooler features (gimmicks) Nikon might just be able to break away from the pack of other high end cameras.
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Already Republicans are using gimmicks to get around this, the major one being pushing a sweeping tax cut that will sunset after 10 years.
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A more than 10% drop in Uber's stock in after-hours trading on Thursday may make coupons and other gimmicks look more attractive again.
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It is unfussy in a country whose metropolitan food culture increasingly involves infantile gimmicks: dishes served on bricks, in jam-jars and the like.
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The most audacious element of a collection mostly without gimmicks had almost nothing to do with NASA, high technology or anybody's rising sign, however.
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They also drew instant comparisons to Cosmo and Wanda from "The Fairly OddParents," whose character gimmicks are appearing as pink and green everyday objects.
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I'm usually far too jaded to be taken in by cutesy gimmicks like this, and I'm not even much of a Star Wars fan.
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Apple isn't planning on packing in the 9.73D Touch, arguably one of the iPhone 6s' biggest features, or gimmicks, depending on who you ask.
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Fereidun Fesharaki, founder of energy consultancy, FACTS Global Energy, described Monday's announcements as "gimmicks" designed to boost prices for a few days or weeks.
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Instead of gimmicks, the Key One focused on the non-sexy, but practical features: performance, battery life, cameras, security, and access to Android apps.
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What you likely didn't notice—assuming the trick was successful—were the secret gadgets and modified props, called "gimmicks," used to fool your eyes.
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The legislation was paid for through a series of budgetary gimmicks, underscoring the challenge of coming up with long-term funding solutions in Congress.
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Fox does capture some footage of what happens inside the mysterious attraction, and he uses plenty of horror movie gimmicks to set the tone.
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Everything about professional wrestling is at once spectacular and spectacularly false: the gold-plated title belts, the storylines, the gimmicks, and even the bodies.
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Snuka was the victim of racist wrestlers in an inversion of the expected islander gimmicks, which were a trope of pro wrestling for decades.
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Commercial EEG headsets are more like gimmicks It's only recently that people have started harnessing EEG as a way to control technology and devices.
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If we go by what has been happening in India in the recent months, cheap marketing gimmicks is the answer you are looking for.
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Equalizing rates will simplify the tax code and take away the incentive to employ questionable accounting gimmicks to move profits to offshore tax havens.
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Most solar chargers are either gimmicks that would struggle to juice up a lemon, or giant packs you need a car to haul around.
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Though some offsets were gimmicks, most House Republicans supported it, but Senate Republicans — along with outside conservative organizations and think tanks — overwhelmingly opposed it.
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That's where Gaga—showy to her bones—should be going now, because she has the chops to achieve real timelessness, without gimmicks or schtick.
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Her daring gestures at the end of each act are the kind that, unlike the play as a whole, give gimmicks a good name.
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What could have been the biggest change in how we experience movies since the invention of color film was largely used for cheap gimmicks.
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The docuseries is free of true crime gimmicks, twists, and turns, and Wall and McDermott set the tone immediately by addressing Hernandez's convictions upfront.
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"The administration is using these gimmicks to try to tell an overly-simplified simplification story," according to a blog by the Tax Policy Center.
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There are no gimmicks, merely the promise that the pieces will perform for all kinds of cooking tasks and won&apost cost a fortune.
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The result is tax cuts and tax gimmicks for the billionaires, and massive deficits and debt left for us and our children to repay.
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Instead of revenue raisers like airline fees and savings like Medicare provider cuts, critics say the pay-fors currently under negotiation are mostly gimmicks.
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In the end, the real star was the HyperX Cloud Alpha, which proved you don't need gimmicks or fancy tricks to make things sound good.
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Well, others have tried, but those have always seemed like inchoate gimmicks, so I guess the unprecedented thing about Gcam is that it actually works.
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The last few years have seen phone makers largely dump fun little gimmicks in favor of refining the basics: design, display, performance, and battery life.
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Baseball is a sport steeped in tradition—the four-pitch intentional walk, Rex Ryan wearing an "I'd Hit That" T-shirt, visual ipecac food gimmicks.
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Unlike many of its fast-food brethren, the chicken chain has shunned gimmicks in favor of a relatively forthright menu — by fast-food standards, anyway.
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Clinton is unfazed by the move, the source says, and is ready to show that she can handle whatever insults or gimmicks he may attempt.
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Google launched its new Pixel 2 smartphones Wednesday, sporting improved cameras, faster processors, sharper screens, and a raft of gimmicks to hopefully keep you interested.
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To critics, We is just the biggest sign that the current state of startup valuations is driven by shady accounting gimmicks and hype over substance.
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Trump said he wants to remove that limit and will offset the additional costs through "common sense reforms that eliminate government waste and budget gimmicks."
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But instead of investigating those questions, the show has fallen back on the twisty gimmicks that have followed Jonathan Nolan's work since his first film.
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Its success is helped by a savvy marketing campaign with inventive gimmicks such as an offer to sleep in Van Gogh's bedroom, listed on Airbnb.
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Trump's budget office has accelerated the downward slide of the process by using more gimmicks to make up for shortfalls in its budgets, Baer said.
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Samsung seems to love tossing in a dozen odd features in the hopes something will stick (although the company's toned down the gimmicks this year).
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Quinnipiac didn't need gimmicks to win their way into the Sweet 16 last season, nor to beat Miami (Florida) in the first round this year.
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This, despite the fact that the software features unique to Samsung's Edge displays were viewed as "gimmicks" by Verge reviewers Walt Mossberg and Dan Seifert.
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He expertly ratchets up tension, not with cheap tricks or gimmicks, but by slowly letting each scene play out until you practically want to scream.
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It's quite a big step, but I think it's this type of device, not gimmicks, that enable me to agitate the organization and effect changes.
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Highway Trust Fund fix Congress passed a multi-year surface highway bill in 85033, but it was paid for using a series of budgetary gimmicks.
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This reliance on cold, hard facts has certainly contributed to the formula's longstanding popularity — there are no gimmicks or big marketing plays around this serum.
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Mick Mulvaney, the budget director, cheerfully acknowledges that they're using gimmicks to pass a bill that permanently cuts taxes on corporations, and not to worry.
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But Asian, black, Middle Eastern and Latina women aren't gimmicks, and finally, their presence is becoming less a stunt and more a matter of fact.
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But like a few others, you have to shuffle through a lot of fashionable mediocrities and tiresome gimmicks before you find something really worth noting.
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Labels increasingly turned to crossover gimmicks like the Three Tenors to maintain profits, so an out-of-nowhere hit like the Gorecki was closely examined.
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It's a little gimmicky to squeeze the phone to launch an app, but it's nowhere near as pointless as some other gimmicks on other phones.
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Early efforts to introduce thoughtful story lines about women who love women gave way to gimmicks in the 1990s, before returning with force this century.
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The Pete for America Innovation Team out there working hard on Christmas Eve coming up with gimmicks to lower his average donation amount this quarter.
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In the vein of past gimmicks, Sacha Baron Cohen adopts different personas in this seven-episode series and dupes unsuspecting politicians, public figures and others.
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Hybrids that combine both these gimmicks have been done but are less common and because of the added layer of complexity, are inherently more interesting.
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While the entire Rick Grimes death fake-out seems like a stunt, these kinds of gimmicks were a hallmark of Gimple's tenure as Walking Dead showrunner.
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The company's meteorologists are widely respected in the field, though the rollout of 30 and 90-day forecasts has been derided by some as inaccurate gimmicks.
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Gimmicks such as this are skirting far more interesting questions: a tiny canapé is not going to encourage people to think big, or make big changes.
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It's gimmicks galore with crocodiles and segways from the Northern Territory Police, but they don't have the one shtick that would've made the video better — rhythm.
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Some are gimmicks—Wootton used a 16-qubit IBM computer to make a superposition of two 8-bit ASCII characters, resulting in a superposition of emoticons.
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"We had to do the glowing-in-the-dark skeleton and all these kind of gimmicks which they could sell for Halloween in America," says Gies.
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Don't get me wrong: A lot in advertising has changed, but what we really need now is the wisdom to separate the gimmicks from the profound.
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" How to Care for It: "There was a time when I thought shower filters were merely gimmicks, but reading about various research findings changed my mind.
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The WWF's post-steroid trial era of pastels and gimmicks had altered the style of WCW, the former blood and guts Southern style Jim Crockett Promotions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Illinois, the U.S. state with the lowest credit rating on Wall Street, has often been chastised for using gimmicks to balance its budget.
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He successfully turned his garish persona into a series of marketing gimmicks — the wine, the fake university, the reality show — and then a successful presidential campaign.
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Is it worth the high price for what the Surface Book 2 offers, or is this just another laptop / tablet hybrid that overextends itself with gimmicks?
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"My view is let's lower the tax rate, get rid of a lot of the gimmicks, and have more or less collected in taxes," Baker said.
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After years of removable batteries, half-baked modules, and tiny secondary screens, LG appears to finally be done with the hardware gimmicks on its flagship phones.
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But after much trial and error, hotels finally seem to be figuring out which amenities guests truly value—and which ones are little more than gimmicks.
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Are the New Day the latest in a long line of unfortunate gimmicks for wrestlers of color, or is there something more to their absurd antics?
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The federal gasoline tax hasn't been raised in over 20 years, while Congress opted to finance last year's highway bill through a series of budgetary gimmicks.
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Looking back, Gwen's earnest adaptations of cultures feel more like gimmicks made in an attempt to make her look more "cultured" than the next pop girl.
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"This is a responsible bill, one that corrects a number of budget gimmicks used by the administration to get around the discretionary budget caps," said Rep.
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Ken Buck, a Republican, and Jared Polis, a Democrat, to address the pervasiveness of these budget gimmicks has been picking up steam in the lower chamber.
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But it sounds like Quibi may also be relying on gimmicks — like Spielberg's horror series that you can only watch at night (when it's dark outside).
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I will ask that savings be accomplished through common sense reforms that eliminate government waste and budget gimmicks – and that protect hard-earned benefits for Americans.
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She also broke with fusty convention by embracing gimmicks, like making the comedian and sitcom star Roseanne Barr a guest editor for an issue in 1995.
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The official line from broadcaster Fox is that there is far too much TV to honor, and they wanted to focus on that instead of gimmicks.
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Yet, to some old-school enthusiasts, who grew up driving manual cars with three pedals and a stick, the paddles are not much more than gimmicks.
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Murphy said lawmakers relied on "short-term gimmicks" and "phantom savings" that would leave the general fund nearly $1 billion short of where it should be.
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"This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem," the president announced in his State of the Union address.
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"In today's media, we often see tokenism and gimmicks, what I call forced diversity," said Joe Casely-Hayford, the longtime London-based designer, who is black.
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Like everyone else, I stuck with an oft-frustrating first season despite ongoing structural upheavals and sideswipes that felt more like gimmicks than coherent plot development.
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There's no question that Republicans are desperately in search of budget gimmicks and rosy economic projections to make it all work — the question is if it will.
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Already Republicans are using gimmicks to get around this, the major one being passing what appears to a sweeping tax cut that will sunset after 10 years.
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So, as is tradition, we've rounded up the best goofs, gags, and gimmicks from around the web as we enjoy the antics of the various internet companies.
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Morgan Stanley's head of technology investment banking, Michael Grimes, the lead underwriter on Facebook's initial public offering, resorted to gimmicks to ensure his spot in Uber's IPO.
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However, this time around the rules for reclaiming your time with a delicious free meal no longer involve dressing up as livestock or any other weird gimmicks.
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Daniel became Mayor of Hell for one day in 2017 - one of the tiny town's tourist gimmicks - and announced that he had banned all heterosexuals from it.
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One of the longest lasting promotional gimmicks in Nintendo's history was releasing limited edition gold cartridge versions of Zelda games, which lasted right up until the N64.
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The new Samsung VR stunt follows what's becoming a long tradition of abhorrent marketing gimmicks using virtual reality to attract attention from the ever-important millennial demographic.
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A switch to a more traditional design might not be groundbreaking, but it'll jettison all the gimmicks LG has tried using to try to win back consumers.
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The magicians allowed him to photograph the gimmicks in their private collections, though he had to promise not to reveal the secrets of how they actually work.
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"Every year our Commonwealth borrows money and uses accounting gimmicks to meet our obligations, digging us deeper and deeper into a hole," said Democratic Senator Daylin Leach.
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It didn't take long for con artists to come up with "spiritual" gimmicks that did nothing more than take people's money and sour their belief in spiritualism.
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But to do this, the president-elect should avoid gimmicks in the form of special carve-outs and loopholes to protect or help special interests and businesses.
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Maybe these things are gimmicks, we don't yet know for sure, but they're certainly necessary idiosyncrasies for justifying the introduction of anything new in such mature markets.
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Many of the 85033 states with full or partial work requirement waivers use gerrymandering and a variety of other gimmicks to undermine congressional intent and increase dependency.
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"The Big Bang Theory" eschewed the usual sitcom gimmicks — cliffhangers, last-minute objections, crazy impediments — and married off two of its characters in the 11th-season finale.
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The proposal will further increase defense spending using a variety of discredited budget gimmicks, while allegedly lowering non-defense discretionary spending to the pre-2018 cap levels.
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But, nine out of ten consumers not only want mandatory GMO labels – they tell pollsters that they want GMO labels on the package, not high-tech gimmicks.
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The expectation among congressional staff was that the GOP would adopt that figure, without the gimmicks, and Democrats would push for an equal increase in nondefense spending.
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It all fits perfectly into WWE's "New Era," which is less about the crazy gimmicks and more about the matches themselves, which must look real and competitive.
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That spectacle probably occurred because Popek is given to gimmicks that are shocking, even ones that will stare back from the mirror every day until he's dead.
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At the bigger promotions—think WWE or the now-defunct WCW—the promoters or their handpicked creative teams will come up with gimmicks for wrestlers to portray.
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For example, one of the best-known IRC gimmicks, the "trout slap," which was introduced to mIRC in 1995, was directly inspired by a Monty Python sketch.
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His motto at WhatsApp had been "No ads, no games, no gimmicks"—a direct contrast with a parent company that derived 98% of its revenue from advertising.
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Almost 240 municipalities responded, trying to lure the tech giant with marketing gimmicks, promises of new transit lines and, as proposals trickled out, billions in tax incentives.
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In response, nearly every council in Britain has cut or outsourced services, sold off assets and tried a host of budget gimmicks, experts in local finance say.
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Cigarettes with nonaddictive nicotine levels would be radically different from what used to be known as "low tar" or "light" cigarettes, marketing gimmicks now barred by law.
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" The $500 billion growth-bonus estimate may prove optimistic, but it is only one-fourth of the total first-round loss of $2 trillion, counting the "gimmicks.
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Why you should care: LG's fooled around with a lot of hardware gimmicks over the years, like tiny secondary displays, modular add-ons, and other silly stuff.
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Finally, the American LAWS Act eliminates the need for hare-brained gimmicks intended to paper over the failures of our immigration policy, but only make things worse.
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The company is literally called "Bodega," and it's either the worst-named startup of the year, or one of the greatest Silicon Valley heel gimmicks of all time.
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The gold card and executive board membership gimmicks are nevertheless getting results, said Tom Sather, the senior director of research at the email data solutions firm Return Path.
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"Cooper Barrett," from the writer Jay Lacopo, loads itself up with narrative gimmicks: an in medias res opening, time jumps between 2011 and 2015, copious fourth-wall-breaking.
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The New 2DS shows the company doesn't need to double down on gimmicks — this is the best 3DS the company has made yet, and it doesn't have 3D.
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Barely five months since it took effect, the law is already yielding potential tax-dodge gimmicks, from revising cross-border payments to substituting bank loans for internal debt.
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The 1950s saw a flurry of various theatrical gimmicks and innovations, as movie producers fought to compete with television, which had rapidly and drastically cut into their profits.
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But, Samsung being Samsung, there are a ton of other things it is pushing with the S93 this year, and in my estimation, they all qualify as gimmicks.
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They have assumed that America could be placated with gimmicks to cut the trade deficit, and that the row will end when Mr Trump leaves the Oval Office.
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There are also different control methods, gimmicks and physics in each game, so it may be that identifying those before making the run could be critical to success.
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Arwin John, founder of Ipoh, the Perak-based "ghost research" organization Malaysian Paranormal Research (MPR), says those flashing electromagnetic field (EMF) readers are just gimmicks for TV ratings.
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Many of the 32 gimmicks he spotlights belong to magicians in Italy who let him photograph them under the strict condition he not actually give away their tricks.
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And until there is, VR short films are essentially flashy, proof-of-concept gimmicks that you say "Huh, that's kinda neat" and forget about 10 minutes after watching.
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From Girl Scout Cookie doughnuts to Pokemon Go doughnuts, to a doughnut inside of a doughnut inside of a doughnut, doughnut shops have come up with endless gimmicks.
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Photo: GettyAfter what felt like five years of mayoral begging and media gimmicks, we finally know the top 20 finalists in the brutal battle for Amazon's second headquarters.
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Characters acting incredibly stupid to suit the machinations of the plot, teasing gimmicks from the very beginning, and then the audacity of the Daryl gunshot at the end.
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Sullivan lived in a cave with the Master and slowly recruited ex-WWF stars to the Dungeon, giving them new gimmicks straight out of Z-grade comic books.
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My initial suspicion that the plays' timely hooks would feel like gimmicks dissipated as I watched; they are more like magnifying glasses that focus and intensify the moment.
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State and local government officials used accounting gimmicks such as counting loan proceeds as revenues and pushing costs into the future by delaying the payment of current bills.
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Gimmicks are the latest order of the day, with everything from Hello Kitty-themed custard buns to luxury truffle brie dumplings attracting the attention of self-proclaimed foodies.
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In "Danzaora & Vinática," performed Thursday, unfortunately for one night only, she uses elements, like wine and glasses, not as gimmicks, but as tools to create a sonic landscape.
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Samsung's software features always tend to veer into gimmicks and nearly every one I've mentioned here could be put in that category if you're not feeling very charitable.
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"Compared to the robots you see in manufacturing plants, these seemed like gimmicks with nothing unique about them," Gong Peng, deputy dean at Shenzhen University General Hospital, said.
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"Sensation" and its Young British Artists dominated the art conversation, enraptured the tabloids, and relegated British portraiture to the debased realm of one-note arguments and conceptual gimmicks.
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And as the reform plan progresses through the legislative process, I hope our lawmakers will reject the all too common budget gimmicks of paying through sleight of hand.
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However ridiculous the machinations that led up to it, the Great Walker Harvest of 2017 was one of the more enjoyable zombie gimmicks the show has yet offered.
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There are gimmicks, then there's what these two have done — grown women playing middle-schoolers surrounded by actual middle-schoolers who manage somehow to keep a straight face.
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You can still do all of the same tricks and gimmicks, like the AR Doodle thing, with the Note 10 as you can with the Note 103 Plus.
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The plan drew immediate fire from lobby groups, including from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which said it relied on "rosy assumptions," gimmicks and unrealistic cuts.
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Although policymakers consistently prefer lower-cost to higher-cost policies that deliver about the same benefits, they often resort to accounting and legislative gimmicks to reduce scored costs.
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Webber has gained a reputation as the "thinking fan's" announcer, with a cerebral low-key approach to calling games free of gimmicks, schtick, catchphrases, and the canned shouty-shouty.
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The cringe-worthy "it's crime fighting time" quotables, or the character gimmicks—like an officer named Highway who spends his time on a highway… it all made perfect sense.
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But other promotions continued: the 247s saw gimmicks that encouraged women to show up to the ballpark in hot pants; breast cancer awareness events took root in the 232s.
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Late on Tuesday, Twitter banned an account that was parodying former House representative and potential presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke's social media gimmicks and personal blog, according to The Hill.
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Sure, plenty of the features are gimmicks, but given the success of competitors, it's not surprising that this is what Apple thinks it needs to do to stay ahead.
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As ever with these sorts of marketing gimmicks, the science behind this isn't anything more specific than looking at your favorite genres and imagining which GoT character these fit.
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This is not the ME playing a character that I'm so accustomed to on television, this is the ME that's raw and real, with no lines and no gimmicks.
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Apple highlighted emoji input at one point, which seemed like an unusual aside for a laptop that's designed for professionals who care about the speeds and feeds, not gimmicks.
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To the upper right of the primary 5.7-inch QHD IPS LCD display is a tiny horizontal screen that shows app shortcuts, notifications, and gimmicks like a personal signature.
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He told me that with their options limited, Republicans might just use "gimmicks" and "smoke and mirrors" in an attempt to cover up the costs of their new policy.
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Since becoming finance minister last year, Hammond has eschewed budget gimmicks and instead wants to build a reserve fund in case the economy needs help as Brexit plays out.
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Sounds hokey, doesn't it, like 3-D glasses or one of those gimmicks that the moviemaker William Castle touted in the 1950s, using names like Percepto and Illusion-O.
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Cofounder Simon Enever learned from his dentist that current brands were often highlighting distracting gimmicks rather than encouraging basic practices (like brushing for two minutes or switching brush heads).
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Potential gimmicks also include "Offer[ing] food from countries Trump has offended: Tacos, Hummus + Pita, Chinese food, Fish & Chips" during the convention on July 20, with suggested celebrity chefs.
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He didn't like their costumes (especially that kilt), he didn't like their "gimmicks," and he was vocal about the fact that he didn't see these men as real competition.
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The game seems to be stepping up its marketing gimmicks from the time it asked people to vote on whether or not it should slice up a Picasso painting.
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And the New York Democrat has insisted that Congress could pass Trump's infrastructure bill within his first 100 days, as long as it's free of "gimmicks" and tax breaks.
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It's not just Citgo — baseball offers plentiful illustrations of Americans' nearly boundless ability to fall in love with names, logos and other gimmicks originally conceived to sell us stuff.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is urging the Senate Budget Committee to avoid using "gimmicks" as it crafts a budget resolution to facilitate tax-reform legislation.
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The app, and its "quiz daddy" host Scott Rogowsky, seem to have inspired Facebook to try its hand at captivating viewers with live-streamed multiple choice questions, among other gimmicks.
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Amid the concurrent marketing gimmicks, app tie-ins, and Halloween costume trends surrounding the show's return, there arose an obvious question: Can Stranger Things 2 possibly live up to expectations?
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Along with media gimmicks, Ripple has created a $300 million fund to pay companies to begin using XRP for its intended purpose — easing the transfer of money across international borders.
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Chime has even included a "smart" feature, and while 90-percent of smart appliances are terrible gimmicks, Chime actually does something worthwhile, and stores all of your personal chai settings.
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But the script, written by Todd Berger from a story by Berger and Dee Austin Robertson, doesn't give the director or performers much to work with beyond gags and gimmicks.
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The White House at the time labeled the pro forma sessions as "gimmicks" and insisted that the Constitution gave the president powers to make temporary recess appointments despite congressional moves.
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Just like Microsoft with the Surface Book, LG is basking in the warm glow of widespread approval from a jaded audience in search of fewer gimmicks and more functional innovation.
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"The word 'PETA' has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues," he wrote in the conservative publication Quillette last December.
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Reprinted from "Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required" by arrangement with TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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The last-minute addition of a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate and the various accounting gimmicks built into the bill aren't there so that tax reform doesn't add to deficits.
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The first thing to understand about Cinerama, one of the gimmicks developed to help movies compete with television in the 1950s, is just how large an image it could produce.
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It ran truly awful software, was loaded with gimmicks, and perhaps most egregiously, it didn't do enough to hide its ultimate purpose of becoming a vehicle for goosing Amazon sales.
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The gimmicks were the furrowed brow and the underbite and the decrees of stewardship, the grandiose dressing up of a prolonged exit as a final inspection of the sport's soundness.
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But as impressive and impassioned as the Pope's message to the conference was, his speech didn't have all the stereotypical gimmicks we've come to know and love from TED talks.
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"The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
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Search Engine Optimization Foundations Course All gimmicks aside, your most important marketing skill may end up being SEO — the powerful use of search engine optimization to drive users to your site.
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For the past several years, theater owners have been visibly struggling to find gimmicks to keep film lovers from abandoning movie theaters in favor of their own audiovisual setups at home.
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"I applaud the administration for responding to these gimmicks," said Representative Kevin Brady, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a main author of the SALT deduction cap.
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Administrators in the nation's fifth-largest school system insisted the plan does not rely on "gimmicks or operational borrowing" and would reduce overall operating expenditures by $232 million over fiscal 2016.
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They looked at, among other provisions, the international corporate tax changes and attempted to answer these questions: Will the new rules stop corporations from using accounting gimmicks to shift profits offshore?
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But Congress has an array of gimmicks it can use to make those swaps without actually reducing expenditures, and used them in the omnibus to add some $17 billion in spending.
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Critics of the confectionery industry say the new products are gimmicks to boost sales by giving a premium feel or a "healthy halo" to snacks still high in sugar and fat.
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Hard Rock Park's marketing campaign leaned on extravagant gimmicks, like hiring the Beatles' last remaining Magical Mystery Tour Bus and towing it around the country on a promotional tour in 2007.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's ruling Social Democrats (SPO) on Thursday attacked their conservative coalition partners, accusing them of fixating on immigration and adopting gimmicks to win votes ahead of an October election.
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This was a show that reset its protagonist's consciousness every few episodes, one that seemed more interested in structural gimmicks than in creating a story or characters worth getting invested in.
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If you plugged in a 25 percent rate rather than a 20 percent one, the whole plan would suddenly become much more affordable even with much less reliance on phaseout gimmicks.
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Movies and TV episodes that seem as if they're filmed in one long take are often gimmicky, and considering that Mr. Robot loves gimmicks, this one should have been as well.
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"Without massive budget gimmicks, there's no way they can do what they want to do," said David Brockway, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation from 1983 to 1987.
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Every person is elusive in one way or another, sometimes even unto herself, but it is possible to confront those inner mysteries in a biography without resorting to fabrications or gimmicks.
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If they fail to do so, they should brace themselves for both large deficits and the myriad glitches, gimmicks and mistakes that come from a hasty and reckless tax policy process.
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Also, while we believe that the G70 offers pretty much everything you need in a modern luxury car, it doesn't offer the various gimmicks and party tricks that the Germans enjoy.
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Firstly, it's one of the prettier but also most timeless looking coolers we've seen to date — which is good, because, gimmicks aside, as with anything by Yeti, it's built to last.
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The league will lean on some gimmicks: There will be no kickoffs (teams will start on their 25-yard line instead) and no point-after kicks (only 2-point conversions allowed).
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But policy experts working on Medicare-for-all emphasize that a real financing plan is essential — and Senate procedural experts don't expect big gimmicks just to get a single-payer plan passed.
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I moved on from PS2 ports and wires over to the wireless world a few years ago, but all the buttons and fancy gimmicks have been an annoying distraction on modern mice.
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All of which is context I feel like I need to lay down because Samsung's software customizations have a long and well-earned reputation for being buggy, garish, and laden with gimmicks.
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But this year definitely highlighted that many drones are now being used to signify "high tech" capabilities, when in fact they are just cheap toys at best, cynical marketing gimmicks at worst.
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Veronica Cartwright plays the most stubborn of the kids, Anne, who refuses to be impressed by Grandma's gizmos and gimmicks, because she's certain everyone and everything she loves will eventually abandon her.
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It's so challenging to make a device stand out that manufacturers are employing all manner of gimmicks, like voice assistants and modular accessories, to see if they can't make their devices standout.
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In DSLRs, autofocus accuracy and flexibility are marquee features, so this early use case made sense; but outside a few gimmicks, these "serious" cameras generally deployed computation in a fairly vanilla way.
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Formats like Cinemark XD or the chain's motion-simulator screenings are arguably gimmicks rather than upgrades, especially when compared to competing options like IMAX Laser or the Dolby Vision-powered AMC Prime.
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But all gimmicks aside, the latest iteration of the portable Bluetooth speaker — the Beats Pill+ — is a legitimately impressive piece of audio equipment that can fill any space with crystal-clear sound.
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I grew up on shooters, but now they're created with the cadence and character of yearly Madden releases, which forces game developers to be more creative with gimmicks than core game features.
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The era was marked by sublimation of self to strong, career-based gimmicks—this was the age of wrestling sanitation workers and repo men, of Puerto Rican ninjas and in-ring minotaurs.
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In truth, the fashion gala is one of City Ballet's many post-Balanchine gimmicks; it's also a detour from the kind of dance theater that has made this company a world leader.
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The best way for Congress to stand up for immigrant youth and our families is through a clean DREAM Act that includes a clear path to citizenship and no anti-immigrant gimmicks.
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Thanks to gimmicks like royalty-relief and no-bid lease expansions, the effective rate for public coal is only 85033 percent, well below the statutory minimum of 12.5 percent for surface mines.
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The federal gas tax hasn't been raised in over 20 years, and the most recent five-year highway bill was paid for through what some have called a series of budgetary gimmicks.
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"The British pub is an institution and as long as our pubs are properly staffed there is no need for these surveillance-gimmicks," Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said.
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They were years in the making, and they might have been avoided if decision makers had put the interests of train riders and daily operations ahead of flashy projects and financial gimmicks.
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Nor even in the somewhat broader sense that the real cost of that tax cut is much higher than $1.5 trillion when you consider the various accounting gimmicks and bad-faith phaseouts.
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"It will include additional [fiscal 2019] funding for a limited set of Administration priorities as well as proposals to fix certain budget gimmicks used to circumvent the spending caps," the official said.
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Like so many upsetting trends in food, this is a result of establishments trying to tap into a culture where the key currency for staying relevant is viral visuals or newsworthy gimmicks.
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The term seems simultaneously futuristic and obsolete: it could refer to the awkward AR gimmicks of early smartphones, high-tech glasses that people might not use for years, or a conflation of both.
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Hosts regularly broadcast multiple times a week as they pry open oyster shells to reveal a cheap, colorful pearl inside, keeping viewers hooked with gimmicks including raffles, giveaways, and unyielding amounts of pep.
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Some phone gimmicks you can just ignore, but here it has a serious consequence: the U Ultra is a bigger device than it would otherwise need to be to accommodate the second screen.
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But after the events of "What Comes Next," I don't trust the show to give any of these characters a proper character arc or a proper send-off that isn't based in gimmicks.
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If The Walking Dead had played any part of the last few seasons sincerely — if it hadn't resorted to gimmicks and stunts time and time and time again — then I would be interested.
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Shaich said he believes that kids' meals should include no gimmicks, distractions, cartoon characters, crazy colors, toy or toy-shaped foods; a clear dig at fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King.
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De Belle is most fascinated by flesh-colored gimmicks like fake hands or thumb tips, which fit over your real thumb and can be used to stow away a silk handkerchief or coin.
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Gimmicks aside, the World Cup has hockey fans giddy with anticipation with the best-of-the-best set to face off against each other for the first time outside the Olympics since 2004.
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Sen. Jeff Flake, a key vote on the Senate tax bill, says he hates the budget "gimmicks" used to keep the bill from increasing the deficit by more than the $1.5 trillion limit.
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When you set aside the corporate gimmicks and ad campaigns, Mother's Day is simply an opportunity to honor the mom — or mom-like figure — in your life for her sacrifices, wisdom, and love.
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The recipes range from simple with a twist (warm Saltines brushed with dried mustard, hot sauce and butter) to delicious gimmicks (a breakfast carbonara) to science experiments (pancake batter powered by nitrous oxide).
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Among the proposed gimmicks: a "Trump Against Humanity" riff on the card game "Cards Against Humanity" and a celebrity chef prepared meal of cuisines from various countries Trump has offended during the campaign.
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The early 1990s were notorious for this, particularly in WWE, where Vince McMahon fell in love with giving everyone simple, cartoony gimmicks based on career choice or lightly considered readings of Greek myth.
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The Middle's beautifully developed characters, finely tuned storytelling sense, and avoidance of easy gimmicks meant it sometimes wasn't the easiest show to break out into a piece about how darn good it was.
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Crunchy salt-cod fritters with fresh hot chiles; juicy fried snapper escoveitch doused in pickled vegetables; barbecued chicken with a sauce like a Christmas ham glaze: The Islands cooks Jamaican food without gimmicks.
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Stores offered heavy discounts, creative gimmicks and free gifts to draw bargain hunters out of their homes, but some shoppers said they were just browsing the merchandise, reserving their cash for internet purchases.
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His puzzles have had some pretty neat gimmicks in them, so when I see a list theme from him, my first thought is that perhaps he is pulling the old bluff on us.
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Some of the biometrics, including the ability to unlock your phone by scanning your face or irises, are so poorly executed that they feel like marketing gimmicks as opposed to actual security features.
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The New York Times wrote in February 2009 that Obama banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush had been using to make deficit projections look smaller, in an effort at transparency.
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As a solver, I especially love the extra gimmicks in the Thursday puzzles, and I was inspired to try something fun with the black blocks, although in this case it was only one.
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This type of use case signals a more hopeful, albeit horrifying, potential for augmented reality that, aside from Pokemon Go, has mostly resulted in undelivered promises and a hell of a lot of gimmicks.
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But it does at least recognize the need to put our nation's debt on a downward path, and tucked between the gimmicks are a number of good policy ideas that should receive real consideration.
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Forbes identified "foodie culture," the rise of gimmicks like wedding food trucks, and the drive for more personalized weddings as reasons why catering costs more, even if the guest list stays the same size.
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When Netflix and Amazon first started releasing original shows that didn't feel like also-rans or gimmicks, it seemed the companies had the ability to completely upend what had become a staid television ecosystem.
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In an atmosphere of mistrust, both sides have sidelined the World Trade Organisation, the global framework for handling trade disputes, opting instead for a transactional approach to the talks replete with gimmicks and threats.
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Mr Corbet uses a wide variety of gimmicks to mask what is at heart a familiar story of an artist corrupted by show business (see also "A Star Is Born" and "All About Eve").
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Bay is a key player in what some critics call the "artistic cheapening" of the blockbuster, or using CGI technology and flashy gimmicks to make up for a lack of plot and engaging dialogue.
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A recently enacted five-year surface transportation bill was financed by a series of budgetary gimmicks, underscoring the difficulties of coming up with a way to pay for something even with widespread, bipartisan support.
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Fiji and Samoa have a long pro wrestling history of their own, but in the U.S. Pacific Islanders were shunted off to gimmicks that were tired even 30 years ago: headhunters, cannibals, and savages.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has called the tax plan a "a step backwards for fiscal responsibility," citing what it called "gimmicks" and a $1.5-trillion revenue cut to the federal government.
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There was little evidence of the delirious shopper frenzy customary of Black Fridays from past years, even as some stores appeared to be getting creative with gimmicks besides heavy discounts to draw in customers.
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Swings at Target, Aveda and Rimmel London and shirtless men almost everywhere — wielding lipstick-tipped power drills at MAC, covered in metallic body paint at Masque Bar — were the quick pic gimmicks du jour.
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Republican senators like Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Dean Heller of Nevada ought not to fall for these cheap gimmicks.
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Sure, some of the phone's "Moto Action" gesture controls verge on gimmicks, but others, like being able to perform two "karate chop motions" to quickly turn on the phone's flashlight, are great little timesavers.
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These reforms include improving transparency and accountability for legislation affecting the debt, cracking down on budget gimmicks that allow legislation increasing the debt and providing for further action to address the debt going forward.
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Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, argued that Ocasio-Cortez and Warren's proposals, which he called political "gimmicks," are attempting to stoke resentment among the working- and middle-classes.
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That exception creates incentives for corporations to use accounting gimmicks to shift profits made at home to overseas subsidiaries and to funnel money through foreign tax havens where they owe little to no tax.
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To pass the bill, Republicans used budget gimmicks and rosy math to make it seem like the national debt would be untouched in the long run; they said the tax cuts would pay for themselves.
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Before you can say "everyone in the casting department deserves an Emmy and also probably the Presidential Medal of Freedom," the limos arrive, unleashing a swirling fever dream of cocktail dresses and ill-conceived gimmicks.
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There are no gimmicks, no flourishes, nothing stripped down here: just El-P and Killer Mike doing what they do best as they tear through songs from recent fire-starting album Run the Jewels 3.
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But the most stunning thing about the Ariya is that, this time at least, Nissan dropped the gimmicks and rolled out a reasonable vehicle that we may very well see in production form someday soon.
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Apple's rolled out a lot of weird additions to iMessage over the years, but Animoji feel much stickier than sending a note with lasers or adding stickers or whatever other gimmicks have been layered on.
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I read a lot of YA as an adult because I think there are things you can do — like the texting in this book — that would come off as gimmicks in more traditional literary fiction.
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The upshot of most of this is that you can ignore Samsung's marketing-focused gimmicks and really enjoy the Galaxy S9 (and none of them fall to the level of other Android manufacturers' software problems).
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But since then, there have been several gimmicks to try to fix the budget process, including the Gramm-Rudman Hollings Act of 1985, the Balanced Budget Amendment, and giving the president a line-item veto.
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However, he says the videos mostly just teach superficial gimmicks, and as a result, the fundamental principles of magic, which are found in the best texts on the subject, are in danger of being lost.
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Events like Evoke in Chelmsford promise not only UV lights, but freeze-jets, blackouts and balloon drops—and their clientele are likely to grow ever thirstier for new gimmicks, bigger capacity and bigger name DJs.
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Unlike the likes of Pele before him, football now seems incidental to his success, with the keepy-uppy gimmicks which haunted his Brazilian forebear well into his retirement almost entirely absent from Beckham's public image.
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And for anyone not familiar with Soseki, Mr. Osada's English libretto was probably hard to follow in the absence of projected titles, which might have made a nice substitute for some of the lighting gimmicks.
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In the letter, LePage also said the funding must be ongoing without any "budget gimmicks" and that waitlists for services for the elderly and disabled people must be eliminated before he enacts any expansion measure.
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Game of Thrones premieres this Sunday, and creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been hyping the show's final season with gimmicks like hiding Iron thrones and staging a global traveling exhibit around the series.
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Rather than the bad gimmicks and headache-inducing visuals audiences were used to, the filmmaker used a refined version of the format — along with groundbreaking motion-capture technology — to create an entirely new world in Pandora.
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In a similar way, people now wait for the ads on April Fools' Day to see what kind of strange stuff the advertisers are going to dream up and the weird gimmicks they'll come out with.
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But some of those gimmicks are pretty neat, I'm especially fond of the GIF mode, though I do wish it was just automatic like you can do with Apple's Live Photos and the Motion Stills app.
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I can't decide if these are gimmicks or not, but Google's hope is that there are enough subtle improvements here to make the overall experience feel a little nicer — or at least a little more charming.
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The reported illness comes just a day after the company released a new short film showcasing its commitment to using quality, fresh ingredients and keeping a simple menu rather than resorting to slick deals and gimmicks.
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Phones that are created primarily for markets outside of the US often include superfluous camera features, like overt beauty filters and other selfie gimmicks, but including an age- and gender-guessing AI is a bizarre move.
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Empty cans filled with air have long been sold in novelty shops and used as marketing gimmicks, but significant amounts of people have only recently been buying expensive bottled air for personal use, environmentalists have noted.
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Garbage makes no attempt at tacking on cheap modern gimmicks or compromising on their sound, and Manson's attitude is the same as it ever was —a glimmer of light peeking out of an abyss of darkness.
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While plenty of beauty brands are now jumping on the innovation train, launching sunscreens with new scents and gimmicks like glitter, Supergoop has managed to stay at the forefront after more than 10 years of production.
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Many of them choose to use their limited time for random gimmicks, like Lauren G., who feeds Arie pineapple because that's her "safe word," or Jenna, who rambles nonsensically as she gives Arie a foot massage.
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There's no question that Republicans have been grappling with a major math problem with their tax bill, searching for budget gimmicks and rosy analyses to make the proposal add up and comply with the Byrd Rule.
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One of the gimmicks is that the couples can't use electronic aids to guide them to their destinations, and the series, if nothing else, proves that no one knows how to read a paper map anymore.
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To reach a two year spending deal, Congress must take the lead by ignoring the budget gimmicks of the administration when it sends its request next month and by defining the negotiations on its own terms.
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The marketers behind movie campaigns are notorious for playing into elaborate gimmicks, like when Deadpool 2 created a fake Tinder account, holiday cards, and an ad campaign that placed their characters in posters for other movies.
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If Samsung manages to take this advantage and introduce notifications systems and handover capabilities between "Vega" and its Galaxy and Note devices, it has the potential to create a system that minimizes gimmicks and distinguishes itself.
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And since then, the rise of the 'other' device world (not the mobile) has continued, while mobile phones themselves are struggling to innovate beyond bigger, nicer screens and maybe gimmicks like the iPhone X's facial recognition.
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With all distractions and gimmicks squashed, at least for the moment, Despicable Me can hopefully return to the themes of family and trust that initially made it so special and, contrary to its name, absolutely likable.
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WASHINGTON — As Republicans march forward with their $211 trillion tax bill, budget experts are warning about what they say are an alarming array of accounting gimmicks intended to mask the true cost of the tax cuts.
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For a while, that soulless warehouse full of sheets, towels and "as seen on TV" gimmicks seemed to be the only entity in the world that really understood how I was feeling in those delicate days.
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"As the Senate marks up this bill, we encourage members to either propose some serious pay-fors or scale back the cost of the bill and reject any gimmicks that hide its true cost," she said.
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Yet he is supporting a final version of the bill that will add something like $1 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, according to independent analyses, even before taking into account its blatant budget gimmicks.
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Details: Nick Kokonas, co-owner of culinary reservation system Tock, said that rather than create culinary gimmicks with artificially inflated prices to make ends meet, restaurants should introduce "surge pricing" like that offered by Uber and Lyft.
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With so many devices on the market (and many of them ringing up in the triple digits), knowing how to distinguish true game-changers from gimmicks is beneficial to both your beauty routine and your bank account.
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In an effort to get back to its roots, the company released a new short film showcasing its commitment to using quality, fresh ingredients and keeping a simple menu rather than resorting to slick deals and gimmicks.
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The fact remains, however, that Apple's going to need to stand out as competitors get better, and the only way to do that might be to bedazzle its traditionally elegant designs with a bunch of silly gimmicks.
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Hydro Flask, a drinkware company founded in Bend, Oregon in 2009, has accomplished the massive task of making customers care more about their reusable water bottles than their phones or keys, with no secret tricks or gimmicks.
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"Particularly for a bill like this, large timing gimmicks, like the sunset, become really important," said Greg Leiserson, a former senior Treasury tax economist who's the director of tax policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
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They have effectively hobbled academic freedom by employing more precarious part-time instead of full-time faculty, and they increasingly treat students as consumers to be seduced by various campus gimmicks while burying the majority in debt.
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There's no question that Republicans have been grappling with a major math problem with their tax bill, searching for budget gimmicks and rosy analyses to make the proposal add up and comply with the Senate budget rules.
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In the late 1990s, when Japanese phone manufacturers first put emojis on their devices as marketing gimmicks, messaging standards required that emojis be sent as text data — as characters matched to strings of numbers, not as images.
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While some praised these companies for the seemingly good deeds, others pointed out the unsettling nature of public relations gimmicks that are essentially capitalizing on systemic societal issues around low minimum wages, crumbling infrastructure, and headlocked government.
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In addition, advocates for the bill have not owned up to the gimmicks that have been inserted in order to try to pass it with just 51 votes in the Senate, under the process known as reconciliation.
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In a world in which theatrical exhibition is crowded by gimmicks like 3D and 4DX, there's simplicity and warm familiarity of a physical print, one a viewer can literally see history through its little pops and scratches.
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All told, the bill would increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion in the first 10 years, and then uses budget gimmicks and rosy math to make it seem like the national debt is untouched in the long run.
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When Richard Nixon, sitting in the show's makeup chair in 1967, said, "It's a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected," Ailes did not humor the former vice president with a deferential chuckle.
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The NBA All-Star Game may be the go-to place for crowd-pleasing gimmicks, but for tech companies in Silicon Valley it's also an opportunity to experiment with new technologies that may define the future of entertainment.
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"Despite clever branding gimmicks, so called 'free data' or zero-rating plans like those offered by AT&T and Verizon are a scheme to manipulate consumers and transfer money from their pockets to a company's bottom line," Sen.
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Image: imgur via Brain_mfThere's been concern, too, that one of the major gimmicks of the 2-in-1 console—the Switch's dock, which lets it seamlessly blend into a home entertainment setup—could end up scratching the screen.
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That push has been met with applause from fans who want to be included, praise and recognition from critics, and prickly criticism from comic purists who believe their beloved titles have been shunted aside for gimmicks and stunts.
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The male contestants on this season of The Bachelorette, and their incredibly lackluster gimmicks, have already started to wear down viewers, who frankly don't need that sort of producer-polished hoopla to stay tuned in week to week.
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Chris Jericho, who has played a role as Owens' sidekick and best friend in one of the best extended gimmicks in recent history, was suspended above the ring in a cage, a delightful throwback to wrestling's carnie tradition.
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The omnibus spending bill that Congress approved this week used gimmicks and loopholes to approve $22019 billion in spending beyond the legal caps, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a debt reduction advocacy group.
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Many of them choose to use their limited time for random gimmicks, like Sydney, who attempts to teach Colton to dance with the help of string quartet, and Taysha, who makes him give her a piggy-back ride.
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Where that willingness breaks down — and where it desperately needs fixing — is when corporations and wealthy individuals use gimmicks and tax loopholes to dodge paying their fair share, or, in some cases, to pay no taxes at all.
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Spotify's already doing it; I can't begin to imagine the hours I've spent flipping through artist play counts, testing out the service's frequent visualization gimmicks, and poring over my friends' years in review when they're unleashed in December.
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All told, the bill would increase the deficit by $1.4 trillion in the first 10 years, and then uses budget gimmicks and rosy math to make it seem like the national debt is untouched in the long run.
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Skipping the Amazon-HQ2-style gimmicks — no reality-TV-style competition, no year-long publicity tour — Apple acted like a grown-up company in its plans to expand its workforce and extend its footprint beyond the West Coast.
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That same matter-of-fact spirit made its way into tailoring, too, as you'll see in our surveillance-inspired story — suits this season are distinguished not by their flourishes, but by their straightforwardness, their very lack of gimmicks.
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But finding sponsors for the necessary $3 million to $6 million in financing for teams, always a difficult part of racing, has been a barrier for women, who are often treated as marketing gimmicks rather than serious competitors.
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Yet postwar design initially overlooked such lessons in the interest of marketing gimmicks like the 1958 Ford Edsel's push-button automatic gearshift, perilously situated at the conventional location of the horn in the center of the steering wheel.
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Unfortunately, they also resorted to some accounting gimmicks that helped them appease the green-eyeshade crowd at the CBO but failed to generate actual revenue – and could impose big new costs on a number of individuals and businesses.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan policy organization, said the plan relied on gimmicks, unrealistic cuts and "rosy assumptions" of economic growth that would reach 3 percent annually by the end of Trump's first term.
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Since then the titan has devised various marketing gimmicks — including its annual Black Friday campaign — to lure shoppers, but the business was never able to establish a commanding position in China, where big guns like Alibaba and JD.com dominate.
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A partnership to be the sole company to bring digital cat trading to mobile and for users to hold their own cryptocurrency wallets could potentially fall or at least appear to fall into the category of scams and gimmicks.
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The dual-camera system on the Huawei P9 is not attempting to serve up fresh gimmicks, and is instead targeted at improving contrast, gathering more light, and generally making every photo look as good as it can possibly be.
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It's more difficult to make the nuanced case that consumers are hurt by zero-rating gimmicks like T-Mobile's Music unlimited, or a world where AT&T provides unlimited access to HBO and CNN with your monthly mobile subscription.
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You'd think, then, that the American wrestling scene would be swamped with "evil liberal" gimmicks—perhaps a tag team of George Soros–funded protesters, or a young, private-college arts major with a finishing move called the Trigger Warning.
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Apple's AI strategy needs some TLC to strengthen Siri, but with the AirPods and HomePod, Apple is building a unified front on audio hardware that will weather the gimmicks of a market that seems artificially mature to begin with.
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"The gimmicks not only damage the bill's fiscal credibility but damage the bill's objectives at the same time," said Michael A. Peterson, the president and chief executive of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, an organization that advocates fiscal responsibility.
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Worse yet, the city had turned to management and accounting gimmicks, like transferring salaries and other operating expenses to its capital budget, which was supposed to be used for long-term infrastructure projects, not day-to-day operating expenses.
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Gradually the Democratic leadership chipped away at the Stupak coalition of pro-life Democrats, culminating in Bart agreeing to vote for the bill in exchange for an executive order that primarily just restated the accounting gimmicks in the bill.
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Variable annuities are also often packaged with marketing gimmicks, including exaggerated claims about tax benefits (you are often better off with a simple taxable brokerage account) and counting the repayment of your principal investment as a "return" on your investment.
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That's right, the same social media platform that has spread the word about food gimmicks like Unicorn Fappuccinos and rainbow bagels is also sharing information about specialty fruit, like the fact that they're in season during winter and they're usually seedless.
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The chancellor continued: not only would he avoid gimmicks and leave it to ministers to decide what to do with their money, but he would even cut the number of annual "major fiscal events" by creating a single, autumn budget.
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"Monopolies on repair hurt all Americans, and farmers can see their whole livelihood endangered by manufacturer gimmicks to block repair," Nathan Proctor, the director of the right to repair campaign at consumer rights group US PIRG, told me in an email.
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In the past, dual-camera systems have been used for 29D or focus-changing gimmicks, but Huawei has taken a different approach: the P29's two cameras only take one photo, but it's supposed to be of a much higher quality.
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"WhatsApp began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way," the messaging app said in a separate blog post on Monday.
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But to do this, the president-elect and his Cabinet should avoid gimmicks and short-term fixes and work with Congress to craft well thought-out and meaningful public policies that will increase opportunity for all — including the Latino community.
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As wholeheartedly as I welcome the advancement of pro-growth tax reform, I just forcefully implore Congress to end its long and ugly history of budget gimmicks and finally address the true drivers of our country's crippling debt—mandatory entitlement spending.
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Trump's budget was criticized for relying on several gimmicks and a dose of fuzzy math to eliminate the deficit, including significantly higher economic growth projections than most experts think are feasible and double-counting the budgetary effects of the growth.
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Brat noted that in the process of agreeing to new budget caps, Republicans and Democrats agreed to add billions of dollars in spending, and that further spending was added through off-budget gimmicks that do not count toward the caps.
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Current regulations allow a brand name manufacturer to use gimmicks, like small changes to their brand name drugs, that do not effect that drug's effectiveness, to extend a its patent protection and prevent other manufacturers from entering the market to compete.
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As it turns out, Boring Company president Steve Davis has a history of wacky gimmicks throughout his career, detailed in a new profile from Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride (the profile builds on reporting from Ashlee Vance's book on Elon Musk).
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The letter outlines four "principles" the state legislature must follow while finding funding for the measures, including "no tax increases on Maine families and businesses," and "no use of other one-time funding mechanisms or budget gimmicks," among other things.
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So while all these various claims remain to be proved, Huawei certainly looks to have been listening carefully to the factors consumers care around, rather than focusing on adding hardware gimmicks to its devices, such as, for example, pointlessly curved screens.
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We were certain this story of a mother, her son, and a haunted pop-up book would stay for a pleasant, but brief time — inevitably packing up its gimmicks and heading to the archives of silly, forgotten scares best told once.
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Instead of relying on fossil fuel budget gimmicks that could have long-term devastating consequences for the nation, a smart budget would invest in the future by advancing clean energy and protecting public lands and waters that sustain local economies.
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Using restructuring gimmicks and legal ambiguities, these two companies wiggled their way into qualifying as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), even though REITs were not intended to include corporate-run private prisons who receive massive contracts from the federal government.
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Still, he referred to efforts to arrest the homeless as "gimmicks," potentially putting him at odds with the White House, which floated increased policing as a tool to combat homelessness when it released a report on the issue in September.
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Such ambition is the sign of a maturing art form, but it's also elicited a grumbling backlash, with some rightly saying that some of these innovations are distracting gimmicks, at odds with the timeless simplicity of the art of stand-up.
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These are standard gimmicks that follow famous fictional bank heists like the masked presidents in Point Break and clown masks used by bank robbers in The Dark Knight, and as such might not have any connection to the recent clown hoaxes.
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Others gushed about the performances in "Vice" (especially Christian Bale's in the title role and Amy Adams's as Lynne Cheney) but complained that Mr. McKay's film, as a whole, was a shade too impressed with its own cleverness and visual gimmicks.
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If the series ultimately gives in to the kind of structural gimmicks that keep its first episodes from moving forward — like the flashbacks upon flashbacks — it could easily collapse in on itself and settle into being a decent, if unremarkable drama.
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Nor even in the somewhat broader sense that the real cost of that tax cut is much higher than $1.5 trillion when you consider the various accounting gimmicks and bad-faith phaseouts that were used to squeeze it under that figure.
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For all of the company's gimmicks over the past four years, this move really stands out because it's exactly what the goal of competition in internet service should be: giving people the highest quality access to the network at fair and accessible rates.
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It goes even further than The Secret Service in mixing impossible martial arts with Bondian gadgets and gimmicks, subverting or exaggerating conventional action-movie scenes (including one memorable bit from the first film) just enough to stay familiar, but not entirely predictable.
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The promotion comes at a time when Dominos is thriving: The chain's stock has gone up 5,000 percent in the past nine years, due in part to a slew of nifty gimmicks that have customers flocking back to its doors (and website).
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We'll chat about how these startups are leveraging network effects to get people onto their platforms, how they're making the most of the technology while not promoting gimmicks and how they're thinking about their future success in an industry essentially owned by Facebook.
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"I especially appreciate that this bill conforms to the bipartisan budget agreement and refrains from gimmicks that not only shortchange non-defense priorities, but also our military by creating, as the House has, a dangerous war funding cliff for next year," Sen.
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Now they are passing a tax bill that will add trillions to the national debt, complete with budget gimmicks that, if they play out the way Republicans are publicly hoping they will play out, will lead to an even higher price tag.
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In the 1990s, WCW made wrestlers from Mexico household names, but mostly they were either pure high-flyers—almost always in masks—in the Rey Mysterio mold, or they toyed with slightly dangerous-to-middle-class-sensibilities gimmicks like Konnan's gang member aesthetic.
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A mainstay of moviegoing from the early 1930s into the early 1980s — more or less when the VCR became popular — the double feature was instituted during the Great Depression by theater owners who used giveaway kitchenware and other gimmicks to bolster declining audiences.
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Then, just when we thought things couldn't get any more exciting, Chrissy Teigen joined in on The Office love-fest to reference one of the Michael Scott Paper company's gimmicks to attract new clients: Pancakes shaped like sheets of paper rather than circles.
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Ultimately, they opted to concentrate on the large amount of shows that are ending because skipping some of the bits and gimmicks that come with a host means "that's 15 to 20 minutes you can't use to salute those shows," he said.
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"From time to time, candidates and others have tried to come up with new gimmicks and novel ways to raise campaign contributions," said Lawrence J. Tabas, chair of the election law practice group at the law firm Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel in Philadelphia.
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The Senate GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is being sold as a permanent fix to our tax code, but because of the gamesmanship and contortionist gimmicks the bill includes, it is setting us up for yet another era of tax extenders.
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And while gimmicks like LG's curved phones, or Samsung's incessant software tweaks, haven't provided much of a lift, the latest flagships from those companies (and HP!) are signs that there's still plenty of innovation left for smartphones, in ways that that are actually useful.
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If that seems like a simple directive, remember that LG is the company responsible for the LG G Flex, a banana-shaped smartphone whose curve had zero appeal, and the V10, by most accounts a solid device overstuffed with unnecessary gimmicks, like a second display.
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It's not full VR support — which would probably make you sick anyway — but it's a sign that the developers are interested in experimenting with the medium, and often a high-profile exclusive for PlayStation VR. Sometimes, these end up feeling like gimmicks or distractions.
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"I think many of the wrestlers who did gender non-conforming gimmicks were reactive, in the sense that they were reacting to exaggerated stereotypes of masculinity that are native to wrestling, but also to our culture itself (a bit like camp)," she told VICE Sports.
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My nightmare is that Asuka becomes just another wrestler, a sort of mirror image of Bayley where they're both in neon spandex with opposite gimmicks—Bayley's underdog to Asuka's frightening unstoppability—trading wins with lesser talents week to week after an initial big push.
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"The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who said the process has gradually deteriorated into something that is neither serious nor effective.
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While all of these proposals purport to "protect the taxpayer," in reality, they create a full and explicit government guarantee behind all qualifying mortgage-backed securities and employ gimmicks that falsely claim to hold investors responsible for a portion of losses — ahead of the taxpayer.
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Wii U failed because it sat squarely in the Venn diagram intersection of all the things Nintendo does worst: Not only did it attempt to turn second-screen gaming (remember that?) into its core feature, it also piled mandatory gimmicks into many of its games.
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At the same time, the Bush administration used a series of gimmicks to hide the true fiscal cost of the plan, such as delaying the implementation of some tax cuts while pretending that others would expire when the actual intention was to make them permanent.
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Nowadays, with streaming the dominant format — but with each click bringing infinitesimal royalties — artists and their record companies must come up with all sorts of gimmicks to sell those gleaming plastic discs, which can help boost an album's position on the weekly Billboard chart.
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The plan would seek to do away with the harsh "sequestration" spending caps of the budget control act and replace them with "realistic and responsible" limits; increase the debt ceiling to avoid an economic crisis; and eliminate commonly used budget gimmicks from the process.
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Moreover, it is time for the American public and Congress to mobilize by standing together and sending a strong message to foreign airlines and corporations: Rule-breaking gimmicks that jeopardize safety and ship middle-class American jobs overseas just will not fly here. Capt.
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It would be entirely possible for future California policymakers to settle for a weak version of it, one that allows substantial carbon emissions within the state to continue (usually polluting vulnerable communities) as long as they are "offset" by carbon credits and other cheap gimmicks.
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They should feel good when you wear them, any extra functions or gimmicks should add to the overall product, not detract from it, and they absolutely need to sound good too—both for game audio, and for the people on the other end of voice chat.
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This combination of tools, which aren't just software-based gimmicks, makes the Cat S61 a unique phone on the market: It's not just incredibly tough (up to IP69 specifications), but it's also a bit of a Swiss Army knife for people who work with their hands.
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Until now, I've yet to be convinced by gimmicks developers have come up with to justify "integration" with Twitch or other streaming services, but Dead Cells is different, as it manages to turn the experience from a passive affair to damn near a co-op experience.
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Fox relies on plenty of horror gimmicks to set the tone Directed and edited by Rich Fox, Experiments follows a handful of different individuals in Los Angeles as they try Blackout and either swear it off forever, or keep going back again… and again… and again.
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Many are little more than gimmicks (do you really need to buy cinema tickets from a bot?), but the more complex models have a lot of potential (like a chatbot in Slack or Gmail that can find every document your boss sent you in the last month).
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The Treasury Department uses accounting gimmicks to hide tens of trillions of dollars in Social Security and Medicare liabilities from the balance sheet by essentially maintaining two sets of books that contain contradictory data: one for the budget decision-making process and one for entitlement programs.
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There are some successes like Pat Nevin's secret second career as an indie DJ and obviously the eternal magic of "World in Motion" but by and large they are limited to gimmicks; a Djibril Cisse DJ set here, a rogue Ian Wright deep house single there.
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The investigation centered on the practice of Amazon displaying its prices compared to higher "list prices" — suggested manufacturer prices (MSRPs) designed as marketing gimmicks to make people think they are getting a deal, even though it's often the case that no shopper ever pays that price.
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The companies obviously aren't earning huge profits in these tiny economies; they're just using accounting gimmicks to assign profits earned elsewhere to subsidiaries that may have a few factories, but sometimes consist of little more than a small office, or even just a post-office box.
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With no resolution to the standoff, ICTSI said in its claim, union workers began engaging in work stoppages, slowdowns and safety gimmicks to pressure the company to try to get the jobs from the port, when the port alone should have been the target of their protests.
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But they evoke clips of gender reveals, in which parents-to-be gather friends and family to announce the sex of their future child, often using gimmicks like cutting into a cake or setting off a smoke bomb colored pink or blue to indicate the gender.
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It's used to clearly communicate letters over radio, and begins Alpha, Bravo, Charlie for A, B, C. Add-a-letter and remove-a-letter gimmicks have each been done to the saturation point, so these days it's challenging to come up with a fresh and entertaining take.
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But that policy fell out of the legislation early on, and rather than replace it, Ryan pushed a plan that added $1.5 trillion to the national debt over 10 years, and used accounting gimmicks to hide vastly larger increases tucked into the legislation's long-term design.
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Late last year, with the highway fund running on fumes, Congress came up with a one-time, $70 billion cash infusion for road repairs with a series of accounting gimmicks, including shifting funds from the Federal Reserve, but it failed to create a sustainable source of long-term funding.
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But it won't house the same kind of advanced TrueDepth camera system the iPhone X has, which means its face unlock will likely still be 2D-based (and less secure than Face ID) and it won't support any kind of face-tracking for Animoji or AR Emoji-like gimmicks.
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You can look at retailers' pre-Black Friday sales in one of two ways: as marketing gimmicks designed to prolong the already-too-long Christmas shopping season, or as opportunities for you to get a head start on your holiday gift list while saving a bit of money.
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"It includes provisions that were rejected as part of our deliberations last year, and I predict that many of the same program eliminations and other cost-shifting gimmicks will once again be rejected," she said, citing cuts to community block grants and other programs she termed essential. Sen.
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Unable to repeal the A.C.A. outright, they've tried to sabotage it — using last year's tax cut to get rid of the requirement that people buy insurance even if they're currently healthy, using administrative gimmicks to try to undermine the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing conditions.
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To do so, Republicans will have to veer significantly from Mr. Trump's budget plan given the outrage of Democrats who see the proposal as an amalgam of punishing cuts in the social safety net coupled with obvious budget gimmicks deployed to disguise the true extent of the fiscal damage.
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Lowering tax rates on individuals and businesses is an expensive proposition, forcing lawmakers to find additional revenue streams either by raising rates elsewhere or relying on budget gimmicks that force the infinitely fallible scorekeepers at the Congressional Budget Office into pretending the legislation won't add to the deficit.
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Some of its most touted features might feel more like gimmicks, and I…Read more ReadThe Apple Card Won&apost Change Your Life—But It Will Hook You on Apple Pay,Read more Read19 Things You Can Do in iOS 13 That You Couldn&apost BeforeHappy iOS 13 day!
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This is in keeping with a show that loves to try out big structural gimmicks and gambits, like when it separated Jimmy from the rest of the cast for its season four premiere, or spent an entire episode on the couple's across-the-street neighbors whose life Gretchen subtly coveted.
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And on the show, her no-holds-barred opinions and signature gimmicks (she takes her mom everywhere, from the recording studio to the club), has earned her comparisons to LAHH personalities like Joseline Hernandez and, of course, the franchise's latest success story Cardi B. But Amara's story is all her own.
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Ms. Jones, the state representative on his northwest Iowa leadership team, said she had noticed other candidates using gimmicks to maintain a presence even when they were not around — like parking Donald J. Trump's empty bus downtown or supporters of Ben Carson's walking around with a cardboard cutout of him.
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Some are going to be disappointed that Isaac, who's been on such a roll of late, doesn't exactly dominate as the all-powerful Apocalypse, but the serene menace he brings to the character is effective enough, even if the actor is unrecognizable behind makeup, a cumbersome outfit, and voice-distorting gimmicks.
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Multiple "gimmicks," documents add, will specifically target presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and other top Republicans.
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Founded by JT Marino and Daehee Park, two software engineers from Silicon Valley who were fed up with the lack of transparency and fairness in the mattress industry, Tuft & Needle has successfully stripped away all of the gimmicks and insane price markups and turned the entire industry on its head.
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It did away with the countdown format that was integral to the original in favor of game-show gimmicks (YouTube stars competing to plate a Thanksgiving turkey while bound to one another in a giant pool of cranberry sauce, for instance) and dull banter, which meant viewers weren't actually "requesting" anything.
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As a kind of pied piper for the blog crowd, Mr. DeMarco, with his trademark gaptoothed smile and disarming baby blues, has tended to his flock not so much with the dubiously revealing gimmicks of social media, but on-the-ground, grass-roots outreach via nonstop touring and direct human connection.
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Moving on to the women, the limo arrivals are divided into different segments this time around: the no gimmicks ladies, flight attendants (there are three), pilot-related entrances (barf bags, giant paper airplanes, a woman who literally stuffed herself inside a suitcase), windmill references, and, for some reason, two vagina jokes.
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Valee, Kanye West's New Signee, Is a Rapper Who Just Might Build You a Koi PondRafiq Bhatia Is Writing His Own Musical LanguageAshley McBryde Takes Nashville, No Gimmicks Required While reading, they should consider the following: What information did the reporter include and why do you think they made these choices?
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Social media gimmicks are many, but one independent bookshop in Bordeaux, Librairie Mollat, has found a creative way to engage their more than 66,000 Instagram followers with some clever book cover placement, while making them aware of some great book titles they have for sale.
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But Sony also keeps leaving too many things out and wasting too much time working on gimmicks, and I'm willing to bet that the XZ1 and XZ1 Compact aren't going to change the fact that Sony isn't even one of the top five (or top 10) phone brands in the U.S anymore.
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The cause is undermined if the program doesn't cover contraception, or if a private insurance market is allowed to remain and compete with the government plan, or if some budget gimmicks must be deployed to pass a bill, setting up future fights to belay catastrophic tax increases or a sudden loss of benefits.
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The rollout of 5G in the US may be hobbled and scattershot, thanks to silly marketing gimmicks and a largely meaningless race to the be first, but the next-gen wireless speeds the standard promises are already arriving in full force across the Atlantic Ocean — for a herd of cows in England.
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Until this year, Mr. Abascal was sometimes ridiculed in the mainstream media for some of his campaign gimmicks, including a video that showed him leading a group on horseback accompanied by triumphant music, in a re-enactment of the medieval battles waged by Spain's Roman Catholic kings to end the Muslim occupation.
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In Oakland, Bing Crosby was a part of the Seals' first ownership group, but the team was later sold to the eccentric team owner Charles O. Finley, who owned baseball's Athletics but whose colorful uniforms, painted-white skates, a paid streaker and other gimmicks could not keep the hockey team in town.
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" A statement Ms. LePage recently shared with Maine reporters took a more colorful tone, saying in part, "Shawn will not risk the fiscal health of the state to expand welfare for nondisabled individuals, and will not support funding welfare by raising taxes, raiding the rainy-day fund, or using one-time budget gimmicks.
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And no, they're not just cheap gimmicks, they're actually useful products that will shockingly improve your day-to-day life (without letting our pal Marie down.) GravaStar Premium Bluetooth Robot Speaker If you've been searching for a Bluetooth speaker that speaks to your quirky personality, try the Gravastar Robot Speaker on for size.
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It focuses on fun and sharing that fun with friends, while avoiding questionable gimmicks like 3D and whatever you'd call the Wii U. Instead, it makes an advance others have yet to try, as did the original Wii and DS, both of which added something unique and intuitive to a games market that needed it.
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"Legislative gimmicks that don't permanently fix the Iran nuclear deal under U.S. law, regardless of which party controls the White House, and continued European photo-ops with Javad Zarif are like waving a red flag in front of an angry bull," said Mark Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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As the lead singer and songwriter for the War on Drugs, one of the least likely breakout acts of this decade, Mr. Granduciel has taken an old-fashioned concept — the rangy, six-string-centric American band, steeped in reverence and grandiosity — and made it newly relevant, with more guitar solos than narrative or musical gimmicks.
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The answer is no, because it's likely the leaders of the "repeal it now" movement are going to lean on some political and public relations tricks and gimmicks: They're going to keep more of the existing parts of Obamacare than expected, tweak a few others and publicize a few new ideas to get the biggest public relations effect.
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"But the director, Cathy Yan, and the screenwriter, Christina Hodson, disguise this deficiency by having Harley chop up her story into pieces and then put them back together in a different order — just one of the gimmicks which Birds of Prey borrows from the 1990s and 2000s work of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie and Danny Boyle," he said.
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"I think what we've heard from very respected senior members of this committee on my side of the aisle is concern that this provision lends itself to tricks and gimmicks, and traps and things that can be used to jam the other side and attack basic programs like Medicare that I believe we all support," Whitehouse said.
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"He had Googled me and dismissed me as of the generation that tries to make high art accessible through YouTube gimmicks and things like that — and I was certainly guilty of that," said Mr. Shinners, who has made videos playing Bach on two different pianos at once, and who, as W.T.F. Bach, performs electronic arrangements of Bach.
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While exacerbating the already enormous gaps in income between the rich and everyone else, either bill will generate deficits and debt of over a trillion dollars in the next decade and trillions more after that — when the gimmicks used to keep the costs at this level (like slow phase-ins and phony expiration dates) no longer apply.
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That's exactly what we're seeing with the statue meme, where Woods's suggestion that the removal of Confederate statues throughout the US will inevitably lead to the destruction of a famous memorial honoring Marines has spawned absurd celebrations of all the ridiculous statues, monuments, marketing gimmicks, art installations, and temporary structures that maybe need a good dismantling.
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Outside of that, it's your standard sub-$300 phone: The Alcatel A7 is a slightly bigger, slightly more powerful, and slightly cheaper version of the Idol 5, but without the millennial-targeted gimmicks: Both the Idol 5 and the A7 are currently only available in Europe, but I'd expect to see these phones in the US within a few months given Alcatel's history.
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From silicone makeup blenders to vampire facials (Kim Kardashian, we're looking at you), it's easy to lose count of the gimmicks, fads and trends that filter into the beauty sphere and back out again, but dermaplaning – using a sharper-than-sharp scalpel-like razor to shave your face of hairs and dead skin cells — is one craze that just won't budge.
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Like, say, Jake Paul, who literally has a music video called "Buy Dat Merch," Georgeson conceived a strategy in which Webber markets his stuff through viral gimmicks, like when Webber pretended a portrait of his "Uncle Larry," which was in reality a painting Georgeson's friends had obtained at a garage sale "while high on mushrooms," was stolen and held for ransom.
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The subsequent two seasons under Glen Mazzara had their high points and low points, but we've now seen three full seasons under Scott Gimple, and it's safe to say there are some real problematic patterns, including a reliance on tricks and gimmicks to give the impression of escalation and growth when people are really just running (or should I say driving?) in circles.
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"I asked the dentist why he felt his patients were getting these simple habits wrong, and he put it down to two things: That people did not like their oral care routine enough to want to invest time or energy in improving it, and most brands were more focused on selling expensive gimmicks rather than on guiding simple good habits," he recalls.
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The game itself was becoming more fluid and watchable—the safe but boring play of passing the ball back to the hands of one's own goalkeeper had been outlawed—and the presentation of the game on TV was growing in sophistication: more cameras, more pundits, more replays, and other studio gimmicks, all serving to heighten the drama of games and rivalries.
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"The following is a paid message for a chip so iconic we don't need to name it, cause this is an ad with no logos, no jingles, no gimmicks, just those red and blue bags with the stuff you love in it," the commercial begins, showing a young woman choosing a plain blue snack packet from a convenience store shelf.
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The now-departed Marianne Williamson and still-in-it Andrew Yang both have the air of a grift about them—the former having hawked a The Secret-style psychic salve to our political problems, the latter pitching a bad version of universal basic income with gimmicks like handing out $116.53,000 a month to 10 people, as if his campaign were the Monster Energy Epic Presidency Raffle.
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Voice shopping sales could reach $400 billion by 2022 Weckbach also confirmed that the Mission E will not resort to digital audio gimmicks in order to replicate the company's famous engine growl, and instead will encourage owners to embrace a new series of engineering-based sounds — from tire tread noise to suspension flexing — that will be audible due to a lack of internal combustion engine.
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Along the way, there were challenges (global recessions, a luxury market that grew ever more fickle, trends and fads and gimmicks to withstand) and triumphs: a women's boutique in Paris in 2007; a second in Tokyo and a men's wear boutique in Paris in 123; a sumptuous exhibition, "Inspirations," one of the few granted to a living designer, at Paris's Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2014.
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As the bill began its journey through the Senate, it immediately filled back up with breaks and gimmicks, until, in the key dramatic moment in the book Showdown at Gucci Gulch, Senate Finance Committee Chair Bob Packwood goes to lunch with a staffer, they down a couple of pitchers of beer, and decide to throw out the whole bill and start from scratch with the simplest, cleanest proposal possible.
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Her performance style compared to "Queen's Speech 5" is much improved, and though "Queen's Speech 6" gained praise in its own right (that Supergirl costume was pretty ubiquitous for a time), the rapper we're looking at in this new edition of the series is freed of any gimmicks (at this point her onscreen animations are more of a trademark), making the most of more UKG-influenced tones of voice and is pretty much on track for domination in 2018.
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Pat ToomeyPatrick (Pat) Joseph ToomeyNSA improperly collected US phone records in October, new documents show Overnight Defense: Pick for South Korean envoy splits with Trump on nuclear threat | McCain blasts move to suspend Korean military exercises | White House defends Trump salute of North Korean general WH backpedals on Trump's 'due process' remark on guns MORE (R-Pa.), were among the few who voted against the bill, saying it employed budget gimmicks that pushed spending even beyond the cap agreement.
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In the same way that Alice Cooper and KISS opened the door for costumes, gimmicks, and power chords, Mötley Crüe wiped away any possibility that hair metal bands could be anything less than powerful influences on modern music: look no further than the artists featured on Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe for proof of how a hair metal band can inspire a generation of musicians in a genre that may as well be considered a complete opposite of their own.
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