This will inflate reported exports – but it will also inflate reported investment income paid to foreigners.
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While Trump isn't known to be an enthusiastic swimmer or a fan of marine life, he certainly is known to inflate — or at least inflate the truth.
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Visitors can watch the balloon inflate in real time and each time one balloon is popped, it is replaced by another which takes more clicks to inflate.
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They too face unique regulations and taxes that inflate prices.
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But mentally strong people aren't looking to inflate their egos.
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Lending at very low rates could also inflate asset bubbles.
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In the past, bureaucrats allied with suppliers to inflate prices.
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But what explains the politicians' need to inflate their credentials?
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These handouts have a tendency to artificially inflate product ratings.
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The modules are compact during launch and inflate in space.
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Did the Trump Organization inflate insurance claims several years ago?
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Secondary balloons just above the ladder can inflate or deflate.
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Companies are using sophisticated investment terms to inflate their valuations.
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Putin's opponents alleged officials were trying to inflate the turnout.
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"They're going to inflate all the figures," Mr. Arreaza said.
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The researchers think that not only do the males inflate their vocal sacs to make calls, but they inflate them when rival males appear, in a kind of "mine is bigger than yours" macho display.
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Inch said the practice has been "helping to inflate" GE's earnings.
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And it's obviously in their best interest to inflate those numbers.
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To Yusko, the only real choice is the third: inflate/devalue.
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The finance departments of public and private companies sometimes inflate costs.
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Increases in government subsidies for homebuyers will only inflate prices further.
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And don't inflate the facts yourself just to seal the deal.
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The mixture should inflate and lighten and the sugars will dissolve.
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It also didn't fully inflate near the edges, so they drooped.
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Hidden taxes and fees inflate your cable bill by 10 percent.
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On occasion, Trump also used his words to simply inflate himself.
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You can also inflate or deflate the air bladder as needed.
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Resulting conflicts of interest may inflate executive salaries or discourage whistleblowing.
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Buybacks boost demand for shares and artificially inflate per-share earnings.
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They inflate the cost of goods, which cuts consumers' buying power.
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Though fairly small in number, their presence is enough to inflate bubbles.
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This number, according to Musk, will inflate to 20,000 vehicles by December.
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This is expected to inflate gross domestic product in their oil sectors.
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You won't let your ego inflate and forget who you really are.
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We do not have air conditioning, which would inflate this bill otherwise.
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Some say they punish savers, inflate asset bubbles and benefit the wealthy.
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As we inflate valuations, your work, my dear CEO, becomes much harder.
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The elaborate fictions these swindlers spin tend to inflate their own egos.
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But they can inflate their own intestines and float away on water.
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Then, two airbags inflate right above your hips to absorb the impact.
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The result was that it was harder for financial bubbles to inflate.
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Some rate-setters worry that loose monetary policy may inflate asset bubbles.
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Moreover, subsidising mortgages might actually hurt economies by helping inflate housing bubbles.
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The robot has soft actuators that inflate and deflate, essentially mimicking breathing.
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It seems Sendler also tries to inflate the scope of his studies.
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Here are some of the costs that can inflate your vacation tab.
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The figure includes leverage, or borrowed money, which can inflate the figure.
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Another is to target economic rents and windfalls that inflate investment returns.
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The balloons that World View operates look like jellyfish while they inflate.
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Only took about 10 minutes to completely inflate back to normal size.
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After all, when you squeeze prices, they'll inflate in the uncontrolled market.
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Concealing the practice through improper accounting is illegal, and can inflate earnings.
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Yael: It's not them simply trying to inflate the price of Ecoin?
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That's not to over-inflate the comparison between teletext and the internet.
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That's OK. They just agreed to publicly inflate each other by 4x.
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They also may not inflate properly to protect people in a crash.
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Additionally, the $39 daily resort fee will inflate otherwise cheap nightly rates.
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Pump-and-dump schemes can artificially inflate the value of a currency.
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So swim to an exit, then inflate your jacket to stay afloat.
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The Medicare Board of Trustees is reporting that Medicare Part B premiums are expected to inflate by 5.76 percent through 2024, while Part D premiums are expected to inflate by 7.1 percent within in the same time frame.
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Years after the meltdown, and despite official reports that they continue to inflate
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They swallow gulps of air, causing their bodies to inflate like tiny balloons.
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Another 200,000 show up the night before to watch the enormous balloons inflate.
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Emulsified inside each mascara tube are tiny fibers that inflate like tiny cushions.
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Census hiring will probably inflate the total number of jobs somewhat, experts said.
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A collapsible buoy that could inflate itself using compressed air might work better.
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It's crazy but it's all just obviously to inflate the number of pageviews.
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Fundraising activity suggests deal sizes will only continue to inflate, rather than adjust.
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Instead, the structure refused to inflate—and nobody's quite sure what went wrong.
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This allows a store to artificially inflate the price and, consequently, the discount.
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Buybacks also inflate per-share earnings, even when underlying profits stay the same.
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Each of these come with their own fan to inflate as you will.
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The aim appears to have been to inflate tension between already feuding groups.
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Murphy then received regular injections of a saltwater solution to inflate the expander.
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The airbag defect involves propellants, or explosives, that help inflate airbags in microseconds.
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The company's air bags inflate with too much force and spray metal fragments.
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The licensing of student data may inflate the number of applicants even further.
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At the same time, they often inflate their sense of importance and success.
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In the playoffs, his earned run average tends to inflate like a balloon.
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AX) (ANZ) of rigging the BBSW to inflate profits from 2010 to 2012.
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Takata used ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate air bags.
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In many countries NIMBYist planning rules vastly inflate the market price of shelter.
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As a result, bubbles inflate regularly in Hong Kong, with sometimes alarming speed.
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Since landlords can be allowed to raise rents to cover the cost of renovations, many make minor improvements that may not be necessary, or they artificially inflate the cost of improvements, to inflate rents and inch units closer to deregulation.
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Murphy then received regular injections of a salt water solution to inflate the expander.
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The tires automatically inflate, transforming into floating devices so powerful they float the vehicle.
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Their idea is that the U.S. can grow (inflate?) its way out of this.
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For the net, a cubesat will launch from the ISS and inflate a balloon.
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But presidents never suggest we try to inflate our way out of debt problems.
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The sun and Mars can inflate the competitive vibes and even puff up egos.
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Moreover, the hacker is clearly trying to inflate the number of credentials they have.
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Go deeper: Lawsuit accuses Teva of working with other drug firms to inflate prices
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One, they could inflate the cost of capital improvement on their rent-stabilized apartments.
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In fact many of us feel compelled to inflate the marks we leave online.
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In the 2000s low borrowing costs helped inflate a credit bubble in southern Europe.
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The prospective employer will not know which schools inflate grades and which do not.
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"In the United States they continue to inflate a 'sack of smoke ,' " he tweeted.
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He may even have found ways to inflate his numbers in the 2018 election.
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To his credit, Delbanco does not inflate the literary merits of the slave narratives.
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Through the plastic, we see his skin inflate and deflate in a steady rhythm.
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The Taliban usually claim casualties and inflate figures when targeting Afghan and foreign troops.
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Buybacks boost demand for a company's stock and also artificially inflate per-share earnings.
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Such units, lawmakers say, inflate the housing market and drive out long-term residents.
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Beware when booking though, as a resort fee could inflate that rate much higher.
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So why is the government paying to artificially inflate the number of dairy cows?
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Paglen cannot trigger the unfurl-and-inflate button until he receives clearance from the FCC.
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He was wearing an inflatable life jacket while paddle boarding, but it did not inflate.
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What if, like a pufferfish, they used saline to inflate the device from the inside?
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In the worst, it will create shortages, inflate prices and force small businesses to close.
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European automakers association ACEA said it regretted the move, which it forecast would inflate prices.
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"It is grossly unjust to apply compound interest and artificially inflate this figure," he says.
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A Verge reporter tried the device and, as promised, the airbags did inflate in time.
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As government subsidies for tuition fees flow through to institutions they have helped inflate costs.
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WeWork is often referenced as the perfect example of Silicon Valley's tendency to inflate valuations.
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He didn't just go on his favorite show in the world to inflate his ego.
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If anything, it only serves to inflate the legend of Apple's iconic past under Jobs.
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The militants often inflate casualty numbers and downplay the number of their own fighters killed.
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Breathe while you watch three white lines inflate into a green hexagon, deflate, then repeat.
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The company's air bag inflators can inflate with too much force and spray metal fragments.
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Federal housing law bans the practice because it tends to unfairly inflate prices for homeowners.
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The Reuters poll actually got busted for oversampling Democrats in order to inflate Hillary's lead.
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The HHS secretary even suggested the elimination of discounts that critics say inflate pharmaceutical prices.
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Similar to hot air balloons, the "stratollites" inflate on the ground and travel straight up.
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This fault can cause air bags to inflate violently, spreading metal shrapnel into vehicle compartments.
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When bills are submitted, helicopter companies inflate prices for rescues and hospitals overcharge for services.
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Improper precinct selection, for example, leads to non-representative samples that inflate support for Republicans.
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Should China ease purchase restrictions, prices would almost certainly spike upward, which could inflate bubbles.
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But the 90 percent statistic shows that many people inflate how they compare with others.
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But the 663 percent statistic shows that many people inflate how they compare with others.
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He later plead guilty to lying about his military record to inflate his veteran benefits.
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Gates testified Tuesday that he helped Manafort inflate his income in 85033 to obtain loans.
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Even if you're not in EGO mode, this car will inflate any owner's public profile.
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Its pontoons did inflate but then it flipped upside down and sank into the water.
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It's common for team members to inflate their contributions to a project, according to Sutton.
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Prosecutors said he intentionally misdiagnosed serious eye conditions in patients to inflate his Medicare bills.
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The pilot tried to inflate emergency pontoons on the helicopter's skids prior to hitting the water, but the pontoons, which would have kept the aircraft afloat, did not inflate and the helicopter listed to one side and flipped over shortly after impact, officials said.
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The lawsuit also claims that he designed a $500 million transaction to inflate the insurer's reserves.
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That&aposs the problem with trying to inflate your importance without actually being important at all.
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Some worry that the pool will further inflate already overly high valuations of private tech companies.
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No one country can over-inflate the value or devalue it, for instance, by making more.
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It's a common tactic used to shock readers and inflate the perception of a company's finances.
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You may have to inflate the cuff manually or press a button to start the process.
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They made me do stuff like clench my crotch to inflate a sphere on the screen.
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Valeant's troubles started after Citron accused it in October of using specialty pharmacies to inflate revenue.
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Anti-Houthi commanders inflate the size of their forces to receive extra arms from the coalition.
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But some of them have chosen to market themselves by trying to "rhetorically inflate" seafood's challenges.
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That shortage continues to inflate home prices, keeping would-be first-time buyers on the sidelines.
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Takata used the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate the air bags.
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The prosecutor allege that a number of financial crimes were committed to inflate the final cost.
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"They love to inflate the numbers by talking about children 'at risk' of exploitation," he says.
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The change would inflate the trade deficit number, an important figure in trade negotiations and policy.
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Unfortunately, on the first night, the testicle pump didn't work and Abad's penis failed to inflate.
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This strategy has a bonus: The dollars you're giving away won't inflate your adjusted gross income.
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Payoffs hidden in the budgets of infrastructure projects inflate the cost of projects and limit competition.
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Verdict: We all inflate traffic numbers sometimes, but a 13-fold exaggeration is a bit much.
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When bills are submitted for insurance claims, helicopter companies and hospitals inflate prices for their services.
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For years, the bank created fake accounts for customers to inflate cross-selling of its products.
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His approach to life seems to be that to inflate — problems, pain, indecision — is to deflate.
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If it senses that you're snoring, it'll automatically inflate to change the angle of your head.
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I never paraded Bandit, he wasn&apost my addition or a way to inflate my ego.
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When magma is rising to the surface, volcanoes tend to inflate, and Axial is no exception.
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Both Cargill and Bunge said the report seemed to inflate its role in the region's deforestation.
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Husbands, on average, inflate their earnings by about 2.9 percent when their wives are the breadwinners.
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To "inflate" it, they performed a CT scan on the fossil and then digitally reconstructed it.
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Tariffs ... would inflate the cost of investment in the aircraft, obviously we're going to be concerned.
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If your plane makes a water landing, resist the urge to inflate your life jacket immediately.
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The only problems they have are the ones that they inflate with propaganda, with fake news.
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Except O'Rourke doesn't even have modest senatorial achievements to inflate because he's not a senator at all.
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The Splash Runner is touted as being easy to inflate and can handle up to 300 lbs.
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PK on Thursday pleaded guilty to making false statements to auditors to inflate the company's reported revenue.
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That's like if an average human man could inflate his waist to a circumference of 2240 meters.
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Then he pivoted to inflate expectations for Mr. Sanders directly and Ms. Warren indirectly as neighboring senator.
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running.
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Icahn and many other observers have contended that crisis-level interest rates could artificially inflate asset prices.
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Finally auctions, the basis for many of our indices, may inflate the market thanks to reserve pricing.
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Smaller funds have also had to inflate orders just to get a look-in on a deal.
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Almost everyone believes Bellator's feeding Swagger a tomato to inflate his record -- someone who can't beat him.
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It's tempting to inflate your lifestyle along with your paycheck, but then you're back to square one.
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Arsene Wenger, manager of Arsenal, explained that the rights deal will further inflate transfer fees and wages.
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Studies show that the PBM rebate structure can inflate drug prices for the PBMs' own profit gain.
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Alaska's program, intended to artificially inflate game populations, is unscientific, unsporting and defies traditional wildlife management principles.
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Companies regularly inflate their numbers when speaking publicly and may deflate them at opportune times as well.
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Just a huge waste of tax dollars that does nothing but inflate false confidence in security screening.
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Recently, I was using a heat gun to shrink about 500 cords that inflate a prototype vest.
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They'll bob their heads and nod before calls, or inflate one air sac but not the other.
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Now, part of that loan ($700 million) is being used to inflate the valuation to $10 billion.
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NASA will try again on Saturday morning to inflate a new room for the International Space Station.
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It takes Bob Woodward all of seven sentences to inflate this campaign promise into certain nuclear holocaust.
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They're the largest grouse, and males display using a pair of pendulous sacs they inflate with air.
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The letter even claims Kalanick used the illegally obtained data to inflate the valuation of Uber. 4.
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There's an air compressor that extends out of the van and can inflate bicycles, and van tires.
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Petroleum imports rose and crude oil was more expensive, helping to inflate the import bill in May.
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This scheme, the study claims, allowed these buyers to artificially inflate Bitcoin's price for their financial gain.
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Aperia Technologies, another of our tire investments, can auto-inflate commercial tires from inside the wheel itself.
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With refreshing originality, Harikrishnan has begged the question, why drop trou, when you can inflate it instead?
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Ten pumps of the handle will inflate a standard 17-inch car tire by roughly one p.s.i.
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"You can see faces of people blowing" to inflate the vests in the original diagrams, she said.
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That's like if an average human man could inflate his waist to a circumference of 3 meters.
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It's almost a law of celebrity that given such stimulation, egos tend to inflate to gargantuan size.
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Mortimore said CMS is aware that the higher ratings incentivize facilities to inflate their self-reported data.
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The floats showed visible wrinkles as the system began to inflate around the base of the helicopter.
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Treasuries are in a bubble and that bubble will only inflate higher the longer this goes on.
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Years later, Mr. Freidman admitted he had intentionally overpaid to inflate the values of medallions he owned.
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They add little value, create and artificially inflate the cost of care to boost their profit margins.
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Some officials worry that low rates amid steady growth are likely to inflate asset prices to dangerous levels.
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Getting content in front of the addressable market can help to convert potential customers and inflate marketable metrics.
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In that case, he said, it was the brickmakers who were alleged to be conspiring to inflate prices.
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Advocates for stricter immigration enforcement accused the Obama administration of using expedited removal simply to inflate deportation statistics.
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Although higher-quality streaming sounds appealing, Amazon's new service will further inflate its confusing array of streaming options.
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First, it would inflate the value of dollar-denominated debts in emerging markets, imperiling their economies (see leader).
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The stacks of paperwork can seem like a menu of creative ways for hospitals to inflate their charges.
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Industry analyst Kester Mann from CCS said he "applauded a realistic launch" that did not over-inflate expectations.
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So there's a ceiling to how much governments can artificially inflate prices — and that ensures that they'll fall.
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That is because predictions of future capital gains tend to be what inflate and shrink property-market bubbles.
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Think of it like an autoplay ad—it will probably inflate Snapchat's view counts, but not much else.
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They argue that buybacks inflate corporate executives' pay and share price at the expense of a company's workers.
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But in October, short seller Citron Research accused the company of engaging in bogus transaction to inflate revenue.
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The idea goes that if we could impart enough energy to a monopole, it will start to inflate.
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The Minion-less mice couldn't thrive past birth, possibly due to respiratory problems, since their lungs couldn't inflate.
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Analysts are divided over whether the Canadian housing market will crash or re-inflate in the coming months.
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The suit accused Apple of working with publishers to inflate prices as a means of competing with Amazon.
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Woollip supposedly takes only 5 breaths and about 15 seconds to inflate, and just 2 seconds to deflate.
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Previously, they had said those cases were worth $11.4 billion, but the amount continues to inflate with interest.
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Over subsequent nights they sit in or near their bowls, inflate specialised air sacs, and emit deep booms.
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The administration's proposal properly aligns the incentive system so PBMs are less inclined to inflate rebates and prices.
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Wall Street loves buybacks because they artificially inflate earnings and backstop prices by providing a price-insensitive buyer.
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Venezuelan authorities say nongovernmental groups inflate crime figures to create paranoia and tarnish President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government.
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Instead, its side-curtain inflaters use stored compressed gas and a different solid propellant to inflate the airbag.
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As with those projects, Abloh's work at LV seems to both inflate and deflate the brand's traditional aesthetic.
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The benefit is twofold: You support your charitable cause and the distribution doesn't inflate your adjusted gross income.
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The agency suspended the first attempt on Wednesday as a precaution after it failed to inflate as expected.
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That's still true, because when he promotes a fellow YouTuber, their subscriber base tends to inflate within hours.
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But the locked accounts were nevertheless allowed to inflate the follower counts of a large swath of users.
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If a user's follower count skyrockets for no discernible reason, it's likely they've paid to inflate their numbers.
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He also was accused of filing false documents, which court documents say he did to inflate his salary.
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Although populism is always a homegrown phenomenon, it can nonetheless inflate or deflate in response to external stimuli.
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It soothed worries about so-called "fiscal dominance", when governments are tempted to inflate away their debt problems.
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When air bubbles inflate the dough as it heats on the griddle, that's a sign it is ready.
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It's not only that online life seems to heighten painful comparisons and both inflate and threaten the ego.
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But they can also increase the value of the dollar, worsen the trade deficit, and inflate credit bubbles.
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Grabbing storage containers that can inflate as needed are perfect for storing seasonal clothing out of the way.
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McGinty and Warren were discussing Wells Fargo's alleged opening of phony bank accounts to inflate account sales totals.
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So there I was on an Arctic evening, deliberately taking a circuitous route to inflate my step count.
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It's difficult to predict how much the current crypto bubble will inflate, or when it'll burst (not if).
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Republicans argue that these rules unnecessarily inflate the cost of insurance, while Democrats insist they're necessary consumer protections.
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Spivak, however, believes the current study may over-inflate the numbers as it includes only commercially insured patients.
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But the decision could have a bigger impact on users who bought followers to inflate their Twitter followings.
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While sure to inflate Mr Westbrook's scoring, that increased responsibility could easily have reduced his output of triple-doubles.
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"The absolute biggest thing that helped us was banking every raise and not letting our lifestyle inflate," Hester said.
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Likewise, Trump has gotten to egregiously inflate and then take credit for Apple's plans to open more facilities stateside.
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On social media, such tasks include liking or retweeting certain content to falsely inflate its authority on the internet.
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China "hopes that all sides respect China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty and not inflate the arrogance of terrorists".
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A Financial Times investigation resulted in allegations that the firm used forged and backdated contracts, possibly to inflate revenue.
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The birds caught 2250 puffer fish, but they dropped nearly half of them because the fish started to inflate.
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And the RAM manufacturers, being douche canoes of the highest order, collaborated to artificially inflate the price of RAM.
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Adding more capital to the pot, the thinking goes, likely does more to inflate valuations than foster great companies.
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"They're connected in such a way that when you inflate one, you get bending in one direction," Tolley added.
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After NASA's lackluster attempt on Thursday to inflate BEAM, an expandable activity module, it had considerably more success today.
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But it could also swell an economy that is close to overheating, and inflate house prices, warns Mr Romhanyi.
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Many Japanese companies pay summer bonuses in June or July, which tend to inflate wage surveys in these months.
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Loon's launch setup, aka Big Bird, is designed to protect the balloons from the wind as they slowly inflate.
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Vagner is known for having accused Singapore-based trader Noble Group of using fair value accounting to inflate profits.
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Illiquid and other hard-to-value assets allow individuals some wiggle room to inflate or deflate their net worth.
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Rather than focus on metrics like growth and dividends, CEOs might instead exercise measures to artificially inflate stock price.
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"Assets will inflate in places the money wasn't intended to go, but also where it was intended," said Matthews.
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These practices allow insurers to inflate their costs and impose burdens on middle class families all across our nation.
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They inflate their noses in order to scare other males away — to mate, they have to fight for dominance.
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Analysts are divided over whether the Canadian housing market will crash or re-inflate in the months to come.
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From hopping chocolate frogs to snacks that make your face inflate, food is the tastiest ally to our heroes.
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This should be reformed, but drug costs are merely one manifestation of Medicare's open-ended incentives to inflate expenditures.
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Wins over bad teams inflate Buffalo's record, and their reckoning is coming in the home stretch of the season.
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Another flight attendant demonstrates how to fasten seatbelts, wear oxygen masks and inflate life vests in case of emergency.
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Then, you drop them into very hot oil, and the two sides of the potato inflate like a balloon.
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He's constantly active and has a supremely high motor, and that could work to inflate his stats a bit.
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Most independent assessments of the tax scheme predict that it will inflate U.S. government debt and budget deficits significantly.
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Some industry leaders fed the frenzy by purposefully overpaying for medallions in order to inflate prices, The Times found.
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Another fly, Achias rothschildi, must swallow air to inflate its eye stalks when it first emerges as an adult.
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"The Farm," in English, is about the so-called "click farms" that inflate social-media statistics with phony views.
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After apogee, a reserve supply of helium would be used to inflate a balloon-parachute hybrid called a ballute.
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The increase in web apps used by companies for online work and virtual meetings will inflate hackers' potential targets.
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This means you can grow naturally from cash flow instead of investments which can artificially inflate your overall valuation.
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The birds caught 11 puffer fish, but they dropped nearly half of them because the fish started to inflate.
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In September, Fiat Chrysler paid $40 million to settle claims that it used dubious practices to inflate its sales.
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This serves a dual purpose: It can inflate a voter's sense of connection with and ownership of the film.
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Airplane evacuation slides are designed to automatically inflate if an airplane door is opened without the slide being disarmed.
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It would massively inflate federal spending and could prompt provider shortages if the payment rates were set too low.
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Indian business lobby NASSCOM estimated that would inflate costs for Indian IT export firms by $400 million a year.
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The chain is expecting to see food prices inflate its costs between 230 percent to 4 percent in 2017.
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A company-hired panel found top executives had pressured underlings systematically to inflate profit figures to hide poor results.
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How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.
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Another $21,22016 was for Mr. Cohen's effort to manipulate online polls to inflate Mr. Trump's reputation as a businessman.
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At the end, he wrote he'd bought sodium azide, an explosive that helps airbags inflate and is extremely poisonous.
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Researchers then painted one sheet gray, and cut the mesh so the silicone would inflate in a rock-like pattern.
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Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to cause a small explosion designed to inflate the air bags in a crash.
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This will artificially inflate the American trade gap with Mexico and manufacture the illusion of a trade deficit with Canada.
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Sater's firm spun false stories about the companies to inflate their value, then dumped the overpriced stocks onto unwitting investors.
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Financial capitals such as Chicago and Minneapolis could inflate farmers' loan rates or undercut grain prices without fear of reprise.
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The central bank could also resolve to inflate the New Zealand economy with "freshly minted currency," if all else failed.
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So the legal risks of trying to circumvent EU data protection law will inflate substantially in just over a month.
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Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations said that every nation that uses fiat systems will inflate out of existence.
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Illuminated from within, the structures would then inflate simultaneously over the border to create six glowing archways, as shown above.
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On that day, Williams opened a valve to allow air from the ISS to gradually inflate and expand the module.
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Stanton said hospitals will often inflate their bills because they expect that insurance companies will not pay the entire charge.
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More recently, as iPhone sales have slowed, the company has pulled out all the stops to inflate its sales numbers.
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The skin has multiple configurations and is powered by a computer-controlled elastomer that can inflate and deflate on demand.
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A gunman opened fire at a Thousand Oaks, California, bar, killing at least 12; Venezuelan consumer prices continue to inflate.
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McCurry's advice for others who want to retire early is relatively straightforward: don't inflate your lifestyle and save, save, save.
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The construction boom may inflate growth rates in the short term, but will not address those structural issues, they say.
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Real estate became the next thing to inflate, and then the recession of 2007-2008 came crashing down on everything.
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Also, either people who buy these seasonal monstrosities tend to forget to inflate them or they get punctured very quickly.
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Within three years of Cohen's arrival, Estrin was charged with bribing insurance adjusters to inflate damage estimates and expedite claims.
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Murder confessions Serial killers have been known to inflate the number of people they say they've killed, for the notoriety.
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Astronauts will make another attempt to inflate BEAM on Saturday morning, station operations manager Kenny Todd said during the call.
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A Tesla Model 3's airbags didn't inflate in a devastating highway accident earlier this year, the victims' attorney said.
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Once in space, the tanks would release their gases to inflate the final B330 unit to its full operational size.
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Fiat Chrysler is recalling 297,000 minivans in the U.S. and Canada because the driver's front air bag can inflate unexpectedly.
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Some lawmakers and an activist group have claimed BioLogics violated accounting rules to inflate net profit before its 2016 listing.
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But the proper approach is not to inflate his importance; it's to treat him as the mere pimple he is.
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Both parties understand that the Affordable Care Act has weaknesses that restrict choice and inflate prices in the individual market.
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Moreover, the activities of multinationals inflate GDP and flatter debt ratios but it's a sector that is hard to tax.
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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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China has also bought up American assets to inflate the value of the dollar and make American exports more expensive.
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Another rock band at No. 1 means another ticket bundle, the music industry's current tactic to inflate first-week sales.
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FOX & FRIENDS: Sarah, why did you dramatically inflate the number of people on watchlists who were detained by Border Patrol?
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Because when you do that you actually inflate them and send a message about what kind of speech is permissible.
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There are some cases of abuse where, for example, landowners pressure appraisers to inflate the value of the donated land.
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You can join tens of thousands of spectators to watch the balloons inflate on Wednesday to get a sneak peek.
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At the same time, the executives at Bloomberg and Turner would inflate the cost of the contracts for the work.
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The surge in demand has prompted some third-party sellers to inflate their prices on platforms including Amazon and eBay.
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Washington is filled with political operatives who inflate their importance and take credit, oftentimes where it might not be due.
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The fear is that each subsequent rebound will embolden excessive risk taking and inflate richly valued stock and bond markets.
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MORE said that the president would inflate the value of assets for insurance purposes and deflate them for tax purposes.
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Inflate the sleeve a bit more and it can also serve as a travel pillow—with a laptop still inside.
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When it was introduced in 2628, Medicare's payment structure inadvertently encouraged hospitals to inflate the cost of delivering medical care.
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The quota has, in effect, simply served to inflate the salaries of homegrown players, entrenching a sort of lucrative mediocrity.
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Ammonium nitrate was used inside of the airbags to create a small explosion that would cause the bag to inflate.
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Further trafficking is expected to inflate Ghanaian output from its 218-week light cocoa crop, which opened on June 2882.
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" A YouTube spokesperson said, "We take any abuse of our systems, including attempts to artificially inflate video viewcounts, very seriously.
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" Trump had long since chosen to reduce—or, in his calculation, surely, to inflate—himself to a persona: "Donald Trump.
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Steve Jobs participated in backdating stock option-based compensation at Apple, including his own, in order to inflate the options' value.
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Even bigger names like Postmates and DoorDash have struggled stay afloat with recent funding rounds that failed to inflate their valuations.
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Read The Fine PrintWe all know that add-on fees can seriously inflate the final price you pay for a flight.
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When a car is recalled, it receives a new inflater, a metal casing containing the explosives that help inflate the airbag.
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In this framework, minimum wages, for example, are a huge problem as they distort/inflate the price of low-wage labor.
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The more pension-fund mandates that such "fundamental" investors lose to index-trackers, the greater the chance that bubbles will inflate.
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IBM can't rely on stock buybacks and other financial shenanigans to inflate the stock price and make itself appealing to investors.
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Its body would have started to inflate like a great, stinky flesh balloon, buoying it along on the warm shallow sea.
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It was important to inflate BEAM slowly because the time in between the bursts of air allowed the module to stabilize.
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Facebook noted that many used strategies like posting on fake or multiple accounts to generate traffic, or to inflate their popularity.
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Corsan wears a high-performance suit designed to enhance his aerodynamics, and equipped with inlets to inflate the wings in flight.
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If you've got real money money to burn, then sure, purchasing card packs is the quickest way to inflate your team.
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Late on Wednesday night, volunteers helped inflate the array of balloons, which include Pikachu, Elf on the Shelf, and Charlie Brown.
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Prosecutors for 44 U.S. states outlined Saturday why they filed a lawsuit accusing 20 drug firms of conspiring to inflate prices.
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But the cost to insert new traffic signals, drainage, curbs and various other items to complete the project may inflate costs.
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You can dress up as BB-8, Chewie, Jabba the Hut, or you can even inflate a tauntaun to ride on.
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In many ways, it was a perfect time to inflate a giant bouffant-sporting chicken in front of the White House.
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Sloan took over as chief executive in 2016 after news that employees created millions of fake accounts to inflate sales numbers.
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Your age, driving record and type of car you have aren't the only factors that can inflate your auto insurance premium.
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But instead of lowering costs, the largest PBMs, Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and Optum Rx, are incentivized to inflate drug prices.
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"I think that while the ISIS menace cannot be ignored, what is more important is not to inflate it," Schweitzer said.
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Democrats and Republicans are trying to pass a massive spending deal to dramatically boost defense spending and inflate other domestic spending.
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The air bag could partially inflate and the inflator could enter the vehicle interior, increasing the risk of injury, Toyota said.
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The current law may steer banks toward short term loans that can be rolled over and inflate their community reinvestment scores.
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It's not hard to imagine Trump installing unqualified toadies, people who might inflate or deflate the dollar to achieve political goals.
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Then I was going to inflate the raft, chain the cement block around my waist, and row out into the lake.
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Activists worry this limit on the grower market could inflate prices and make it more difficult for patients to get access.
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Allurion's device comes in the form of a pill and takes about 15 minutes to inflate in the stomach after consumption.
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It's perpetuated by bots, fake accounts set up to artificially inflate the popularity of a website, social media post, or advertisement.
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This flood of money could inflate the value of these securities well beyond their worth, potentially leading to a market bubble.
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The move follows an NYT investigation in January into the fake accounts industry, which helps some Twitter users inflate their influence.
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Earlier, Mr. Musk had suggested a nylon tube that would inflate like a bouncy castle to form an underwater air tunnel.
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Now Richard was charged with finding another industry that had been allowed to inflate into a fraudulent, and presumably fragile, bubble.
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Importantly, if both nations' counted these credits they would grossly inflate, or in fact, double the amount of actual carbon cuts.
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The data excludes bonuses, share options and other perks, which often inflate executive compensation — and the pay gap — many times more.
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The company also clarified that automating such efforts to artificially inflate the reach of certain tweets breaks Twitter's terms of service.
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One sign that a tax preparer will inflate your return: They are getting paid based on a percentage of the refund.
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The way to fight the radical right is not to inflate its strength by seeing ideological alliances where they don't exist.
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Countries in Central and Eastern Europe have long argued that Gazprom used its powerful position to inflate prices and quash competition.
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Karpeles, 33, was found guilty of illegally altering Mt. Gox's electronic records to falsely inflate the company's holdings by $33.5 million.
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It was one thing when he did it as a private citizen, to puff up his chest and inflate his wealth.
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In a newer procedure, kyphoplasty, doctors inflate a balloon to elevate the broken bone into position, and then inject the cement.
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In short, there are more ways to earn and spend as both sides of the loyalty equation — awards and rewards — inflate.
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Once the missile leaves the atmosphere and the warhead releases, the balloons inflate, and one of them surrounds the nuclear warhead.
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In order to keep the comparisons simple, they keep the proposed beneficiaries constant and either inflate or deflate the net benefits.
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Not coincidentally, this seems to be leading some academics to inflate their publication lists with papers that might not pass such scrutiny.
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But you can be sure, if there's a way to inflate something into a full-blown scandal, Uber will find a way.
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Under Whitman's tenure, HP decided to sue Autonomy for allegedly using fraudulent accounting methods to inflate its revenues and court potential buyers.
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Seeking popular approval, it sent the printing presses into overdrive, hoping to inflate away the value of these secret piles of wealth.
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Instead, the commissioner compared some level of participation in deflating a ball to a player's direct use of steroids to inflate muscles.
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It took two days to inflate all the balloons, and Morgan told the BBC that he had to pick the right moment.
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Takata has previously acknowledged it improperly stored chemicals and had problems with the manufacture of the explosive propellants used to inflate airbags.
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Parliamentary seats and central government money are handed out to states based on population, giving politicians an incentive to inflate the numbers.
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A nationwide standard is favored by the food industry, which says state-by-state differences could inflate costs for labeling and distribution.
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In Arizona and Colorado, for example, changes in mandatory vote-by-mail laws in select counties can seemingly inflate early vote numbers.
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That was so Manafort could falsify the file's contents to inflate his income, which would allow him to qualify for a loan.
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Between the lines: Rather than inflate the importance of these documents, U.S. officials should continue to focus on the BRI's specific failings.
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After his second touchdown grab, Landry celebrated by pretending to inflate the football — perhaps mocking New England quarterback Tom Brady's "Deflategate" issues.
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As governments succumb to the temptation to inflate, expectations adjust and the inflation rate needed to surprise the public rises ever higher.
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By updating the market on the investor 'demand' you artificially inflate demand as buyers up their bid trying to get their allocation.
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The FT's first investigation, published on January 30, said a senior Wirecard executive used forged and backdated contracts, possibly to inflate revenue.
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HP will argue that Autonomy's management made undisclosed, loss-making hardware sales and misrepresented revenue to inflate Autonomy's value, its claim shows.
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Traders said the deposit was high enough to bring U.S. imports to a halt and inflate prices of alternatives, such as barley.
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The module, which will inflate up to four times its size, is expected to stay attached to the ISS for two years.
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It currently looks like all the Dyson vacuums are already on sale, but that's because Macy's likes to inflate the original price.
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What it doesn't do is inflate costs; Facebook doesn't charge for views of less than three seconds in these types of campaigns.
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On Monday, the company began removing "inauthentic" likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps that falsely inflate popularity.
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But as the crew tried to inflate it, Beam moved out only five inches toward the fully expanded length of 73 inches.
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On Tuesday, The Financial Times published documents which it said appeared to indicate an effort to inflate sales and profits by Wirecard.
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As NTU has previously noted, this deduction can artificially inflate prices for homes beyond what buyers would normally be willing to pay.
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The men reportedly admitted to using the phones to inflate the number of clicks on ads in WeChat, China's largest messaging app.
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Many domestic industries and businesses seemed bewildered, and expressed concern that this would artificially inflate prices for such a key raw material.
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Its star, SAO 20575, spews stellar winds that inflate the cloud as it travels at a rate of 62,000 miles per hour.
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It's really easy to inflate your score-adjusted Fenwick over the course of a month when you're devouring the NHL's weak links.
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"The flowers, made of rip-stop nylon fabric, will inflate and move hypnotically in the wind," she articulates in the project description.
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When he worked for Trump, Cohen did whatever he could to intimidate the boss' critics or opponents and to inflate his accomplishments.
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If we inflate 2017 premiums to 2020, our central estimate of the cost increase, $1,380, would increase by 63 percent, to $2,249.
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These days, easing monetary policy does far more to inflate financial asset prices than to encourage more capital investments or job creation.
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I think his insecurity as a composer interfered, and he tended to inflate the music, overemphasizing contrasts and overdoing the jazzy elements.
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But a series of increases were slow to quell investor enthusiasm, and the tech bubble continued to inflate — until, eventually, it burst.
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Startup veterans I spoke with had different ideas for how to root out the non-partner partners that inflate Silicon Valley's accomplishments.
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Both of the blow-up jumpsuit costumes feature built-in fans that inflate the costume for you — no huffing and puffing required.
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Trump pushed easily debunkable lies to inflate his record of accomplishments and sensationalized crime stories in an effort to demonize undocumented immigrants.
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While companies inflate the listed savings by discounting off the MSRP, we've found that the deals we've listed here are good ones.
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Davis-Bacon is estimated to inflate highway project costs by 22 percent through requiring the federal government to pay above-market wages.
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Why it matters: Surprise medical bills are not only unaffordable for the patients who receive them, but also inflate everyone else's premiums.
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Plus, the setup is super easy — simply place it where you want, stake it in the ground, and let it self inflate.
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Ellis: One option the urologist provided was a penis pump that you install in the penis to inflate to help with erections.
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Strategic use of those paths can trim — or inflate — the sum that a student ultimately pays by tens of thousands of dollars.
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At least 17 deaths worldwide have been associated with the flaw, which can send metal fragments flying through vehicles as airbags inflate.
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Doering set No. 1 down a few inches from an electric air pump similar to the ones used to inflate air mattresses.
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"These sales artificially inflate home prices, making housing even less affordable for buyers and increasing the risk of a bubble," said Gardener.
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The militants, who aim to topple the Western-backed government, often inflate casualty numbers and downplay the number of their own fighters killed.
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Wired noted in 2015 that trolls tend to inflate the bids on "rare" and collectible items, making large offers that inevitably fall through.
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Basically, it's the same technique used at your doctor's office where they strap and inflate a cuff on your arm, except much smaller.
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" There's a broader lesson here: Don't become attached to any stock in your portfolio, let alone inflate its value, just because it's "yours.
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The upgrade came after investigators found two recent serious crashes involving 2200 and 22010 Toyota Corollas in which the airbags did not inflate.
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Either way, the debate is a reminder that one of the intended effects of monetary policy has been to abnormally inflate asset prices.
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That longer lead time can inflate valuations as companies draw more funding rounds, each of which necessitates that the company's value goes up.
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Driven by starry forecasts and cronyism under the previous government, state-owned banks had let non-performing loans inflate to a $83bn balloon.
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The densely packed modules launch on a rocket and then inflate once in space, providing more overall volume for astronauts to roam around.
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Along with policy rules and inflation targets, central-bank independence became one of the ways governments' promise not to inflate were made credible.
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Looks like the Skarsgårds are used to poking at each other's egos, lest they over inflate and float away like — oof, never mind.
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A related reason was to limit the cheap (government-guaranteed) funds available to speculative investors whose activities tend to inflate asset price bubbles.
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Prevailing wage standards inflate contractor hourly wages by over $4 on average — that's more than half a million Americans put out of work.
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Allowing the Fed to rapidly inflate the money supply and secretly give out loans to foreign entities without congressional oversight is stupid policy.
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All this extra tech didn't inflate the price too much, and it can still be used like a normal flash if you want.
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In September South African authorities raided some of the world's biggest container lines on suspicion of colluding to inflate rates on shipping routes.
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Farm subsidies inflate cropland prices because expected future subsidies are likely "capitalized," just as stock prices on Wall Street capitalize expected future profits.
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It relays the feeling of touch with a bunch of inflatable pads, which inflate and deflate to create pressure on your own fingers.
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The basic idea: It's much cheaper to launch habitats folded up to a fraction of their size, then inflate them once in space.
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At the heart of Takata's defect is its propellant, the explosive that helps inflate the airbag in a tiny fraction of a second.
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UNA trades are an efficient workaround but serve to inflate LME volume figures by creating up to three reportable trades instead of one.
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His stated intention to reduce taxes without compensating spending cuts seems likely to inflate the deficit; that should be bad news for bonds.
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This has spurred record volume in covenant-lite loans and encouraged sponsors to inflate Ebitda figures through add-backs and estimated cost savings.
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While generally looking favorably on the rising stock market indexes, some officials have expressed concern that keeping policy overly accommodative could inflate bubbles.
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The Liberal Democrats have gained notoriety for bar charts which appear to inflate their own prospects of electoral success compared to other parties.
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Prosecutors said Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc had orchestrated to inflate drug prices - sometimes by more than 1,000% - and stifle competition for generic drugs.
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The goal was "to fraudulently inflate the company's revenues and deceive investors around the world," said the statement from the Department of Justice.
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A three-month shutdown would inflate Air France-KLM's net debt to 7.7 times earnings, Citi calculates, and swell Lufthansa's multiple to 13.
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A three-month shutdown would inflate Air France-KLM's net debt to 7.7 times earnings, Citi calculates, and swell Lufthansa's multiple to 12.4.
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A three-month shutdown would inflate Air France-KLM's net debt to 7.7 times earnings, Citi calculates, and swell Lufthansa's multiple to 12.4.
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She was accused of paying to inflate her son's ACT score and of arranging to misrepresent him as black and Latino on applications.
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Puffer fish are best known for their ability to inflate like a balloon, but if you peer inside, you typically won't find air.
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In addition to encouraging providers to inflate the volume of services, the carve-out also makes it very difficult to shop for care.
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As an added bonus, you can also use it to inflate things like ball, toys, and pool floaties while you're on the road.
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But when the pink princess became a hot commodity, it appeared to become a way for some sellers to artificially inflate their earnings.
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The law's overarching aim is to protect workers and consumers by countering the financial speculation, reckless lending and price gouging that inflate bubbles.
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Prosecutors said Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc had orchestrated to inflate drug prices - sometimes by more than 1,000% - and stifle competition for generic drugs.
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Transmar lied repeatedly from 2014 to December 2016 to inflate the amount of collateral used to support Transmar's borrowing, according to the filing.
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Unable to yield more authority to the executive branch, these politicians would now inflate the power of the courts to check a president.
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And with more people indicating plans to purchase iPhone with either 512 GB or 256 GB, Apple's ASP is likely to inflate further.
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This imbalance would significantly inflate the cost to taxpayers and undercut the savings that could otherwise be realized in a single, unified system.
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Mr. Paglen said that afterward, his team did extensive "orbital analysis" to ensure a collision-free trajectory and secure F.C.C. clearance to inflate.
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Argentina does not control the dollar; so it cannot inflate or devalue away the dollar bonds, as it can with local-currency bonds.
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User Alvin Yip warns against the impulse to inflate your life jacket immediately if a plane is making an emergency landing on water.
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Investigators found that the industry and city government colluded to inflate the price of public construction and engineering work in exchange for political contributions.
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However, they figured out an exploit that allowed them to falsely inflate their JPay account balances, then transfer the inflated amount to personal accounts.
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At the same time, likely tax cuts and spending plans will inflate the public debt and boost economic growth, pushing yields on Treasuries higher.
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They are trying to inflate the cost and lower the benefits in order to justify rules that simply don't make sense under the law.
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Millions of people cancel cable TV each year -- in large part because channels like RSNs inflate the bill and make the bundle too expensive.
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Indeed, it is as if they must inflate some mythical beast so that they will appear more valiant in their quest to slay it.
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Son's large checks have helped inflate valuations in pre-IPO private companies, making other VCs write bigger checks or drop out of deals entirely.
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The BEAM was attached to the Tranquility module on the International Space Station in April, and it took two tries to fully inflate it.
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"By pressing the gums like this, you're pushing the blood to the surface and releasing tight, pursed lips, so they naturally inflate," she explained.
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Image: Bigelow AerospaceThe ISS is getting a little renovation done, courtesy of its very first attachable space house, which is almost ready to inflate.
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That followed an investigation by the NYSE which said there were indications Agria had engaged in trading intended to artificially inflate its stock price.
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However, the DDB survey counts anyone who has used drugs in the past 13 months, which Csete says could inflate the number of users.
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That means he can't do anything tricky like artificially inflate the value of the company in the short-term in order to profit personally.
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And the suit goes on ... the yellow inflatable pontoons did not properly and timely inflate to prevent the chopper from flipping on its side.
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Mr Osborne also reaffirmed the government's daft commitment to protect "green belts" of protected land surrounding cities, which constrain housebuilding and inflate property prices.
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Guedes said state-owned banks like Caixa and development bank BNDES had committed "excesses" in the past, which had helped inflate the public debt.
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Most people who fly regularly find it easy to tune out the instructions on how to buckle a seatbelt and inflate a life jacket.
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"You inflate the price of the vehicle and a car that was maybe within reach of being affordable now may not be," Scarpelli said.
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It also comes after The New York Times reported on celebrities and media figures buying fake followers to inflate their status on social media.
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Much of what the military buys is a state secret, making it easier for officials to inflate costs or swing deals towards favored parties.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought numerous cases against companies that crammed distribution channels as part of fraudulent schemes to inflate their earnings.
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When putting together the Part D Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003, the Bush administration sought to avoid Part B's incentives to inflate costs.
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Years of easy money from central banks have helped inflate the prices of just about everything an investor can buy, like stocks or property.
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And the corporate regulator has taken three banks - not including Macquarie - to court accusing them of rigging bank bill swap rates to inflate profit.
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He asks a supplier to inflate an invoice; instead of billing for the ruble equivalent of $1 million, the supplier bills for $1.5 million.
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He then tinkers with lights, switches, and other electronics to inflate these objects with life, making them breathe, move, and react to their environment.
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He then claimed the same nonexistent loan had been "forgiven" in order to inflate his income so banks would agree to lend to him.
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"Any claim that we are mischaracterizing gang members to inflate our arrest totals is false," an F.B.I. spokeswoman, Nora Scheland, said in a statement.
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But the score they artificially inflate or deflate will be less significant — at least for users who want real information rather than fake scores.
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In the veterinary hospital, Javsicas inserts a tube into the trachea and attaches a plastic respirator bag, which she squeezes to inflate the lungs.
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Increasingly severe constraints on building in high-income coastal cities inflate the asset values of affluent homeowners, contributing significantly to rising disparities in wealth.
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He had made three loans worth $1.5 million during that period, and political opponents theorized that they were structured to inflate fund-raising success.
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One religious leader, César Vázquez, who is running for governor, said Mr. Serrano took advantage of high-profile killings to inflate his own profile.
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He even told her to lie to the panel to inflate how intimate they were being with each other, which she felt uncomfortable about.
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Mandarin Trading later sued the Wildensteins for fraud, alleging that it was the victim of a scam to inflate the value of the painting.
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In such large transactions, where strong demand is expected, investors often inflate their orders to ensure they're allocated at least some of the securities.
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The air bag deteriorates over time when it is in contact with moisture, causing it to explode too fast and sometimes not fully inflate.
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Keqiang told U.S. officials these figures were more accurate than the provincial GDP data provided by local officials under pressure to inflate their numbers.
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Yang used skinny balloons — the type that gets sculpted into animals at carnivals — to inflate the intestines and measure their stretchiness in different places.
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A similar policy allows rent increases when apartments are renovated, but tenant groups say a lack of state oversight leads landlords to inflate costs.
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They inflate engagement metrics, provide real services to users, help generate data on those same users, and are just plain difficult to completely weed out.
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TO obscured from insurers its relationship with a specialty pharmacy, Philidor Rx, that helped inflate its drug sales, the Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
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Although these policies were meant to inflate the price of heroin, the drug's cost actually plummeted by more than 90 percent from 1981 to 2007.
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AND FINALLY ... Packed pigskin It's Super Bowl week, so there's no better time to watch the Slo Mo Guys over-inflate a bunch of footballs.
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Among them is Fu, the Hong Kong investor who said he paid a bribe to inflate the appraisal for the property he wanted to buy.
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For consumers, Mr Trump's trade policies could inflate the price of a typical small car by between $1,408 and $2,057, according to the Peterson Institute.
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The satellite will do one final experiment in March when it will inflate a giant "sail" that will help take the spacecraft out of orbit.
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Not to mention, unethical sellers or agents could artificially inflate the price of a home through shill bidding, as an offer is not legally binding.
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What went wrong during first test Astronauts had to retest the module after the initial attempt to inflate the module hit a snag Thursday morning.
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Activists inflate a giant balloon depicting Trump as an orange baby during a demonstration in London against his visit to the UK on July 218.
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Bloomberg reported last year that Hampton Creek had enlisted people to buy back mass quantities of Just Mayo, its eggless mayonnaise, to artificially inflate demand.
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But hospitals' financial pursuits have raised concerns about whether they are continuing to chase revenue and inflate health care costs at the expense of patients.
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AiraWear uses "targeted massage modules," that, when activated by an accompanying app, inflate to provide a gentle, vibrating sensation along the wearer's back and shoulders.
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Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 200,000 Jeep Wrangler SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because the air bags may not inflate in a crash.
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Branding might do it but then you have to scramble even harder and faster to create a slick experience and inflate a brand that sticks.
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In addition to protecting consumer privacy, Mozilla describes the decision as a way to also improve performance, as many web trackers inflate page load times.
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But in Trump v Hawaii, Mr Loeb writes, the president's defenders "seek to inflate this modest presumption into a high barrier thwarting meaningful judicial review".
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You can definitely feel the strap inflate and resulting constriction, but it's not quite so much like a boa constrictor wrapping itself around your arm.
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But always the shaming circumvents due process, precedes true justice, and serves mainly to inflate the sense of self-importance and egos of its progenitors.
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In April, they were slapped with a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of U.S consumers over allegations that they conspired to inflate DRAM prices.
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Here, the NFL is claiming that a meaningful percentage of retired players, coached by lawyers and assisted by complicit physicians, exaggerated injuries to inflate claims.
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The air bags, which degrade over time and inflate with too much force, have been tied to at least 17 deaths and 180 injuries worldwide.
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This reduces the risk that central banks help inflate new bubbles, and adds to their potency when crisis or uncertainty make the banking system unreliable.
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The rise has fostered a suspicion that what Mrs May calls "monopolies and vested interests" have pushed up prices to unwary customers to inflate profits.
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NASA astronaut Jeff Williams on Thursday tried to inflate the module with spurts of the space station's air, but it failed to expand as planned.
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Not only does this inflate expenditures beyond that threshold, it has encouraged PBMs to game the system so that beneficiaries reach this threshold artificially early.
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High humidity, as well as high temperatures, causes a compound Takata uses to inflate its airbags to break down over time, and become more explosive.
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He said Trump would routinely inflate the worth of his assets in financial documents to insurance companies and banks or to lock down business deals.
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So, I lugged the Plank upstairs, cut it open, watched it inflate, and threw it on my bed frame, with the "ultra-firm" side up.
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On the campaign trail, Trump accused Yellen of keeping rates near financial crisis levels to help President Barack Obama and artificially inflate the stock market.
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Asset bubbles, bold market revolt One risk: Rate cuts could inflate financial markets, blowing the "big, fat, ugly bubble" that candidate Trump saw in 2016.
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Prosecutors alleged that from 2011 to 2014, DiMaria and others carried out a complex scheme to artificially inflate Bankrate's earnings and misrepresent certain company expenses.
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They later found, however, that individual traders had been pushing the estimates around in an attempt to boost their own bottom lines and inflate bonuses.
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According to both NASA and Bigelow, cycling the pressure by deflating and reinflating should help relieve the friction forces and make it easier to inflate.
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But it's like pushing on a balloon: You can squeeze it in one place, but it will just inflate by the same amount somewhere else.
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But he warned that the whole industry must avoid raising incentives to artificially inflate sales, as it did in the early years of this century.
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The density of his treatment is dizzying at times, and the difficulty of sifting through this (often brilliant) welter can inflate and elevate simpler elements.
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"It's always hard to make decisions, so projects drag on for decades, costs inflate, and when they decide to do them, it's usually too late."
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The tax code affords real estate investors great leeway in how they calculate their depreciation — flexibility that often is used to inflate their annual deductions.
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That show's director, David Cromer, a minimalist to begin with, didn't inflate the material for Broadway; he battened it down, as if for a storm.
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The consumer goods giant said last month it would no longer work with internet "influencers" who purchase followers to artificially inflate their social media following.
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"The objective of these overvaluations was to inflate Noble's revenue and balance sheet," according to a copy of the 72-page filing seen by Reuters.
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One factor is that surgeons "insufflate" or blow carbon dioxide gas into the abdominal cavity -- inflate it, essentially -- in order to see and work better.
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MSPs are at the heart of a growing cottage industry mostly originating in Russia, spawned to sell clicks and comments, and inflate social media engagement.
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The umbilical incision was used to inflate the abdomen by pumping in carbon dioxide, providing a vaulted internal space for the surgeons to work in.
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Prosecutors said Parmar used the app to enter false destinations on at least 11 occasions in order to inflate ride charges and defraud Uber passengers.
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There are increasing compelling efforts that much of the rise in drug costs is due to PBM rebate schemes that inflate the price of drugs.
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Net finance costs are expected to be higher than in 2018 as fees related to the probe and restructuring effort inflate expenses for another year.
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That is because what Mr Trump's supporters love about him—including the bullying public persona he has used his office to inflate—almost everyone else loathes.
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The report alleged that the maker of Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Lindemans wines wrote down the acquired inventory from the Diageo deal to inflate future profits.
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Following deployment, the sculpture should inflate into a large reflective balloon, orbiting the planet at a height of 350 miles (575 km) once every 90 minutes.
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In 2010, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia unsealed an indictment against him, claiming he was part of a scheme to inflate the price of tech-company stocks.
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U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning airbag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash.
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But for users with large followings — especially those who've attempted to inflate their followings with purchased followers — the number of purged accounts could be much higher.
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Bankers also blamed the looming end to central bank bond buying programs, which had helped inflate asset prices and stoke growth, for the increased market sensitivity.
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Eventually, this metastable period came to an end, causing the universe to inflate (as we'll explain in a bit) and turn into what we see today.
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Or if Robert Shiller, the Nobel-prizewinning author of "Irrational Exuberance", were given a similar post, only to depart having allowed a stockmarket bubble to inflate.
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Although these automated accounts created through software programs are banned by Instagram's terms of service, marketers like Mishra create bots to inflate their clients' follower base.
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The company says this was done for quality-control purposes; a number of contractors who spoke with Zaleski say it was done to artificially inflate demand.
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Once launched, the first CubeSat will inflate a balloonlike structure a metre across, to which it will remain attached, in order to create a bigger target.
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And there's also the fact that Ashley Madison created a small army of bots to trick its users and inflate its numbers prior to the hack.
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Instead, US companies have spent a record amount of money this year buying back shares of company stock — an effort to inflate their value for shareholders.
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And once a deal is oversubscribed, many investors will artificially inflate their orders, in the knowledge that their final allocation will end up being scaled back.
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There's an incentive to inflate the extent of a breach, or to make it up completely—and that incentive exists for both hackers and security vendors.
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They say using them to settle payments would either be illegal, because they would form of parallel currency, or would simply inflate Italy's already high debt.
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A small fender-bender in her rented 2001 Honda Civic caused its defective airbag to inflate with too much force, spewing metal shrapnel into her neck.
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The question then becomes: Are these brands really running out of products, or is the 'sold out' accolade just a clever manipulation to inflate brand buzz?
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Questions that ask respondents whether they agree with a statement may also inflate acceptance levels because people may feel compelled to agree — even if they don't.
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The project is simultaneously complex beyond civilian understanding and alarmingly simple: a tiny box with a balloon and a remote-controlled whippet cartridge to inflate it.
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McMahon also said the plaintiffs did not show that Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma intended to conceal the SAIC meeting to inflate his proceeds from the IPO.
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Late last year company opened a board investigation into Valeant's relationship with Philidor RX Services amid accusations it had used the specialty pharmacy to inflate revenues.
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A structure could be 3-D printed and space rovers could land on the moon, inflate a dome and begin constructing a building to protect astronauts.
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As for the euro zone, the region's inability to inflate away debt will mean growth continued to be severely hampered by damaging leverage burdens, Moody's said.
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The report also said editors were able to artificially inflate the importance of other topics by "injecting" them into the Trending section of users' Facebook pages.
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The lawsuits accuse BT of having concealed or made misleading statements about the accounting practices in Italy, causing it to inflate earnings and its stock price.
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The bill would also overhaul the credit hour system, enabling for-profit colleges to inflate credits in a particular course and churn students through their schools.
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That ongoing lawsuit alleges Novo has misled investors and colluded with industry peers to increase drug prices and artificially inflate its financial results, according to Novo.
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Therefore, he runs a few different scenarios, analyzing how much they will need if health-care costs inflate by 83 percent or 15 percent or more.
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The company was also accused by investors this month of creating fake customer accounts to inflate the subscriber base of its streaming-TV offering, DirecTV Now.
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"If you artificially inflate the price of some cars to be uncompetitive, you give the lower-priced cars a buffer to raise their prices," Drury said.
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Toyota's latest recall covers passenger-side airbags produced by Takata which use ammonium nitrate to inflate the air bag, and do not contain a drying agent.
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And if you would allow a PBM or any third-party vendor to over-inflate that amount ... you are being set up to lose every time.
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That's useful, because it means it's not counting users who simply cross-post their Stories from Instagram or Messenger to Facebook, which would inflate the number.
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They said Sahachaisere, Winick, Kershner and others sought to fraudulently inflate the price of penny stocks by about $100 million, and then dumped billions of shares.
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Eight tanks of air inside the module then opened to fully inflate BEAM to the size of a small bedroom, a 10-fold increase in volume.
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Another is that carbon dioxide, used to inflate the abdomen so that surgeons can see better during minimally invasive procedures, may help cancer cells invade tissue.
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Choosing North America would inflate the media revenues by $21970 million as part of a 22016 agreement FIFA signed with NBC Universal's Telemundo and Fox Sports.
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As distributional conflicts surge in domestic politics, they are surging in foreign policy, too — and those who ignore them lose out to those who inflate them.
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But the state has also been accused, repeatedly, of lowering standards to inflate performance, and has made a concerted effort in recent years to raise them.
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Accused of concealing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses of mortgage-backed securities, to inflate his bonus at Credit Suisse, he also faced real justice.
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Mr. Manafort succeeded in winning loans from Federal Savings Bank only because he falsified documents to inflate his income by millions of dollars, the government contends.
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Structure Tone admitted that it had electrical, plumbing, drywall and other contractors falsely inflate their bills, adding millions of dollars to the cost of the work.
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Some researchers think the discomfort of air hunger is from the mismatch between the breathing our brain wants and our lungs' ability to inflate and deflate.
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But prosecutors said the sales were a sham intended to inflate the value of the company, which is publicly traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Using bridging or subscription loans instead of LPs capital can artificially inflate funds' returns by allowing managers to delay - or even avoid – calling on LPs commitments.
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Nonrigid is simpler, Boyd told me: you can construct the whole thing flat on the ground—no scaffolding needed—and simply inflate it when you're done.
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He noted that big checks from investors could inflate values, making it more difficult to raise funds later - another issue highlighted by WeWork's recent valuation struggles.
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That might weaken the pound but could further inflate the value of other assets seen as well-insulated against the negatives of a Brexit, including stocks.
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Levine had said Murray and Betances had made a "half-baked attempt" to inflate the market for setup men by filing for $5 million in arbitration.
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Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponen At least 54 pro-government forces and 13 civilians were killed in Afghanistan over the past week.
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NHTSA said the ARC inflators are a hybrid design using high- pressure stored gas and a small amount of ammonium nitrate to inflate the air bags.
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I mean surely it's not the old "Treasure Island" phenomena where the car industry used to inflate U.K. prices just because, well, just because they could.
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Comscore recognized revenue on these transactions based on the fair value of the data it delivered, which had been improperly increased in order to inflate revenue.
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Earlier this week, I detailed how Trump also seems to be resorting to simply making up polling data points in an attempt to inflate his popularity.
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While the regulator did not elaborate, some lawmakers and an activist group have previously said BioLogics breached rules to inflate net profit before its 2074.2700 listing.
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According to three people familiar with the company's operations, it is adding water to the garbage containers that arrive each day to inflate their billable weight.
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U.S. officials' mistrust of China goes as far back as the 1950s, when national authorities set unrealistic production quotas that led local officials to inflate data.
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I think it would be a mistake to inflate the specific tensions between the conservative movement and blacks with tensions between the conservative movement and nonblacks.
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They may have fertile ground on the second piece of this effort given that Trump's financial disclosure report appears to inflate both his income and net worth.
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Without these cost saving measures, some movies could be shelved before production and some television shows could get canceled because budgets for the projects could suddenly inflate.
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On Monday, it acknowledged that a group of employees had managed to inflate the costs of parts in order to funnel away profits for their own benefit.
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Privately, some campaigns are arguing that the approach is enriching consultants and ad vendors while forcing smaller campaigns to waste money trying to inflate their donor numbers.
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More controversially, it argues that they violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by using bots to inflate customers' engagement after getting banned from the service.
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Keen to be viewed as the virile leaders of their respective countries; eager to inflate their image by harming migrants and refugees, the most vulnerable in society.
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A lawsuit filed by some early Trump SoHo purchasers alleged that the developers, as well as Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, overstated sales to inflate prices.
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"We have hundreds of gold balls flying apart in a millionth of a second when water molecules inflate the polymers around them," he said in a statement.
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In March, the RemoveDEBRIS satellite will "inflate a sail that will drag the satellite into Earth's atmosphere where it will be destroyed," the university said a statement.
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We spoke with Director X, who created the centerpiece of Drake's stage ... which didn't inflate after Travis Scott fell into the hole where it sits before inflating.
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There's no evidence that Twitter is manipulating the follower counts of President Trump or the most popular users, though bots often inflate the number of followers considerably.
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The crux of Spotify's argument is that it is directly competing with Apple's music streaming service but the 30 percent fee requires it to inflate its prices.
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Researchers created malleable elastomers that heal themselves after getting cut; and at Stanford, researchers created soft robots that self-inflate, growing or shrinking to fit their surroundings.
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Windrip makes attractive promises that are both vague and probably impossible — in this case, promising all Americans an annual stipend whose numbers inflate on the campaign trail.
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After that, ground controllers told ISS astronaut Jess Williams to start transferring air from the station to the module, in order to slowly inflate it, NPR reports.
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According to Mr Cheshire and Christian Hilber, also of the LSE, restrictive planning policies inflate the price of office space in the West End by about 800%.
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Other than that, the tools — clay spray gun, paint gun, flatten, inflate, cut, clay, swirl, smudge, smooth — are remarkably true to their names in terms of functions.
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John Somorjai, executive vice president of corporate development and Salesforce Ventures at Salesforce, said that he did not agree that corporate venture funds have helped inflate valuations.
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Fiat Chrysler's sales reports came under scrutiny in January when two Chrysler dealerships filed a lawsuit alleging that the company pressured them to inflate monthly sales totals.
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Conversely, there have been journalists, hopeful of landing an interview with a certain player, who might artificially inflate a grade as a way of smoothing the way.
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The system is not infallible, but the analysts are not likely to inflate or spice up the intel and operate within the guardrails above to minimize mistakes.
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China's vast farm sector is also facing uncertainty as Washington's trade dispute with Beijing threatens to curb supplies of critical farm goods, including soybeans, and inflate costs.
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"Pump and dump" is a form of securities fraud common among penny stocks, in which shareholders attempt to artificially inflate the price of stock through misleading statements.
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The surge in stock price may have been helped along by Apple's record share buybacks, a practice where companies inflate shareholder value by purchasing their own stocks.
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The second page then talks about how salespeople "gamed" the system to inflate their sales numbers—but apparently with the assistance and consent of the customer involved.
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With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job opportunities that greatly inflate the value of those paychecks have become the norm.
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Not only does the EOS project inflate the numbers, but it also continuously offloaded Ethereum during its year-long token sale making it tricky to track value.
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An initial attempt to inflate BEAM on Thursday failed, most likely because of friction within the module's layers of fabric, foam and reinforced outer covering, NASA said.
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In a continuing lawsuit, Mr. Kwait is accused of retaliating against Marc Einsohn, also an assistant principal, who questioned Mr. Kwait's alleged request to inflate students' grades.
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The company's air bags can inflate with too much force and spray metal fragments, and have been linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 22 deaths.
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In Battery Park City, the land is owned by a public authority that charges developers a payment in lieu of taxes, which can inflate monthly carrying costs.
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Some school abstinence-only programs inflate condom failure rates, for example, to discourage their use, while other programs overstate the prevalence and effects of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Which raises the point: why further inflate his importance by talking or writing about Spencer, unless you're someone who wants to hurt President-elect Trump by association?
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This secrecy was a useful tool, but it became a crutch too — a way for federal employees to cover up mistakes or to inflate their own importance.
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Indulging in a glass or two of wine is a great way to complement a delicious Italian meal, but ordering by the glass can inflate your bill.
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Even Trump's own cabinet members, in their public comments and briefings to Congress, have declined to back up these attempts to inflate the intelligence ex post facto.
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Shares in Wirecard, however, slumped 12.8% after the Financial Times published documents on the company's accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits, dealers said.
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"If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music," Ek said.
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Roeper's employer the Chicago Sun-Times issued a statement on Monday stating it would be investigating whether the film critic did artificially inflate his 225,000-plus Twitter following.
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When most or all of the applicants an employer hears from are college educated, he or she will "inflate" their requirements with additional degrees and experiences, Scott said.
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The plaintiffs argue that Apple illegally monopolized the distribution of iPhone apps and that the commissions it charged to app developers inflate the prices consumers' pay for apps.
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To do that, you've got to get into the groove of holding down your button just long enough for the circle to inflate without it going full red.
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Prosecutors said the Abbotts paid Singer a total of $125,2503 in purported donations to his foundation to inflate their daughter's scores on both the ACT and SAT exams.
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When you unroll it, you can inflate that bike tube with a standard bike pump, attach the wheels, and suddenly you've got a tremendously huge rolling duffel bag.
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Put your dick in the tube and your hands in the booby cubbies, and the breasts inside inflate to whatever size you want—within 33B to 36F, anyway.
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It has prosecuted Chile's football association over league entry rules and charged Chilean forestry company CMPC with colluding for at least 10 years to inflate toilet paper prices.
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For years, a flight attendant recited safety instructions over a loudspeaker, while another walked the aisle and demonstrated how to fasten a seatbelt or inflate a life vest.
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Retailers were told they could not charge a fee for customers using Wells Fargo financing but could inflate a purchase price to cover the fees, the lawsuit said.
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The unboxing process is relatively simple: Remove the protective film as you unfurl the mattress and wait for it to inflate and bounce back to its original thickness.
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For a few years during World War II, Macy's canceled the event, in large part because there wasn't enough rubber or helium to create and inflate the balloons.
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A classic click-farm operation utilizes hundreds of devices and involves people clicking on a specific button to inflate subscriber rates, followers, or whatever else is being contracted.
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At least four people have died after head-on crashes in Hyundai and Kia vehicles in which the airbags did not inflate, federal safety regulators said last year.
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The CSRC accused Kangmei of using fake bank bills to inflate deposit figures, falsifying reported revenue, and transferring funds into connected parties' accounts to trade its own stock.
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Armies of sockpuppet accounts strategically liking, commenting, and sharing are able to inflate the visibility of posts until they reflect an ideological consensus that may not actually exist.
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Last year a financial regulator found that Samsung BioLogics did indeed inflate the value of Bioepis by $3.9bn, though it did not opine on the motive for this.
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Once in orbit, the BEAM will inflate up to four times its size It wasn't until recently that technology advanced enough to turn expandable habitats into a reality.
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We'd heard about supply shortages when Apple introduced the phone last fall, but most assumed this was due to orchestrated scarcity to inflate interest and keep demand high.
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Worn under a ski suit, sensors in the vest can detect an unrecoverable imbalance, anticipate an impact and inflate, all in less than a tenth of a second.
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According to estimates provided by Lemonade, fraud eats up as much as 38% of all of the money paid into traditional insurers, and can inflate premiums by $1,300.
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Trump, without evidence, has blamed his sagging poll numbers on a rigged election, and said the media had fixed the opinion polls in order to inflate Clinton's numbers.
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When exposed to moisture, ammonium nitrate, which is used to inflate the air bag, can cause the inflator to rupture with deadly force, spraying shrapnel into vehicle occupants.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar intensified the Trump administration's attack on drug middlemen Tuesday, even suggesting the elimination of discounts that critics say inflate pharmaceutical prices.
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It's widely assumed that executives are less likely to inflate their earnings when they work at high profile companies that operate under a good deal of regulatory oversight.
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Maybe worth trying: insert a 1m diameter nylon tube (or shorter set of tubes for most difficult sections) through cave network & inflate with air like a bouncy castle.
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If that happens, the front air bags won't inflate in a crash and the seat belt pre-tensioners may not tighten up around occupants to help prevent injuries.
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But a new report says that there are even more problems: The company has reportedly been buying its own product from store shelves in order to inflate demand.
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Companies in the Bay Area like Yelp have helped to over-inflate housing costs, and if they can't pay their workers to be here, they shouldn't be here.
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And there's always the worry that early data could inflate or deflate voter turnout — the reason that news organizations usually give for not providing results during the day.
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Currently, the commission is pursuing a civil penalty against the city of Miami for officials engaging in a "shell game" -- using restricted funds to inflate its general fund.
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" In return, whoever is in power "hires those companies to perform services, and the companies inflate the contracts heavily, with kickbacks either to individual politicians or their parties.
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A common example of racial capitalism is a school or a company intentionally putting photos of people of color on its website to inflate its appearance of diversity.
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Last year, two of the largest food distributors in the United States, Sysco and US Foods, sued Tyson and other American chicken producers for conspiring to inflate prices.
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Vaulter really is playing games to inflate its web traffic during a couple of down months, and after Lawrence admits as much to Kendall, Kendall plays good cop.
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Before the lipstick was remade in durable metal, Mr. Oldenburg recalled how students would pump it up to inflate it before standing on the tank to give speeches.
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Another actress charged in connection with the scheme was Felicity Huffman, who is accused of paying $15,000 to have a test proctor inflate her older daughter's SAT score.
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In his view, some of the proposed solutions, such as using the European Stability Mechanism's (ESM) credit lines, are flawed as they would still inflate member states' debts.
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The parties almost immediately clashed with one another, and with the EU. Proposals from both would further inflate Italy's massive public debt, provoking threats and pleas from Brussels.
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In a report published on May 24, an activist investment firm called Blue Orca Capital accused Samsonite of using questionable accounting practices to inflate its earnings and profits.
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Then he injected salt water to inflate a balloon near the tip of the tube, blocking the aorta and cutting off circulation to Ms. Williams's pelvis and legs.
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But over time, the Midwest Premium has become a device to speculate and artificially inflate the price paid for aluminum at the expense of end users like brewers.
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"We see a better chance this year due to stability in the economy," he said, adding the bank was not in a hurry to inflate its loan book.
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YouTube Music still falls way behind its competitors in terms of raw subscriber numbers, but maybe softly forcing it on Android owners will inflate those metrics a bit.
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"That's my take every time I read another story bemoaning the fact that buybacks artificially inflate a company's earnings per share, making them inherently phony," he told viewers.
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Pages drum up support and inflate their followings with memes and harmless posts, only to slip in the occasional, easily missed poison pill: a mistruth or bigoted jab.
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Not only are patients facing more out-of-pocket spending than ever before, but hospitals — including Carlsbad Medical Center — often greatly inflate their prices compared to Medicare rates.
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"That's important people do have money in their pocket to spend," said DeSanctis, but he said small caps would struggle if tariffs inflate the price of consumer goods.
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When you knead the dough, you are massaging moisture into the wheat's proteins, creating a matrix of gluten that traps gases so the bread can inflate from the inside.
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The device was made out of polyurethane, the same material used to make condoms; a physician could insert it like a tampon and inflate it like a tiny balloon.
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What people want to achieve at this meeting might vary, but ACT UP is united by a frustration at the way big drug companies inflate the price of drugs.
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Experts are looking at entry, descent and landing technology that could inflate upon entry, slowing the descent in the thin Martian atmosphere and landing substantial weight on the surface.
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Appearing on "Squawk Box, " Ricks defended Lilly against charges that drugmakers actively try to inflate costs for profit, using the firm's earnings, released on Tuesday, to support his position.
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At another congressional hearing Wednesday, pharmaceutical company executives blamed pharmacy benefit managers for helping inflate prices and boasted about their financial assistance programs as solutions to the access crisis.
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Woodlot owners frequently inflate the amount of timber they can harvest from their land, which allows stolen wood to enter the system and be sold to sawmills, he said.
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She has balloons for arms, can inflate her body, and battles in a candy-filled arena, making her a seemingly great fit for the game's eclectic cast of combatants.
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They said this enabled the defendants to receive increased storage fees and command increased premiums when selling zinc they owned, as part of a plan to artificially inflate prices.
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He was also, though he didn't realize it at the time, becoming a pawn in an alleged scheme to inflate membership numbers for a multibillion-dollar life insurance company.
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The potential for a Fed chair to either crush growth or inflate bubbles is what makes the job best suited for highly intelligent, risk-averse people of considered judgment.
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Meanwhile, oil firms are conscious of not letting costs inflate at the rate they did between 2011 and 2013, which helped precipitate the oil-sector downturn of 2014-2016.
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The tiny nationalist "Japan First Party" has protested against the changes for reasons such as fears foreigners would inflate welfare rolls and crime rates, it says on its website.
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Conservative policymakers, long opposed to the ECB's stimulus, have warned that generous asset buys risk overheating the economy, could inflate asset bubbles and may push up inflation too quickly.
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He wrote an op-ed in March denouncing the Green New Deal, arguing that while he supports the "concept", the model "sets unachievable goals" and would inflate the government.
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This would cause gas particles to travel toward the lower-pressure region closer to the ground and inflate an air pocket on which the flow can slide nearly frictionlessly.
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According to the WEF's forward looking estimates, the retirement savings gap from all eight countries is set to inflate by 5 percent every year over the next four decades.
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A federal appeals court has declined to revive a proposed class action accusing Michigan-based Flagstar Bank of manipulating transactions in order to inflate overdraft fees charged to customers.
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Imports likely rose 20.2 percent in October from a year ago, the fastest pace of growth since January 2014, as higher oil prices inflate import costs, the poll found.
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"Our comments and notably those concerning the use by the U.S. of methodologies which artificially inflate the preliminary dumping margins have not been given expected consideration," the spokesman said.
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Later that month, a short-selling firm published a report claiming Valeant hid its ties to Philidor, and used the pharmacy to artificially inflate sales to drive up prices.
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He is aware that international markets will punish moves that divert Mexico from its current course of openness or that overly inflate the deficit to pay for social reforms.
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We will commission an examination of the use of share buybacks, with a view to ensuring these cannot be used artificially to hit performance targets and inflate executive pay.
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The regulator said some banks carry out loss-making transactions purely to move higher in the tables and "routinely present the tables to clients to inflate their own position".
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"Our bill will curb the anti-competitive pay-for-delay tactics that artificially inflate prices for patients and prevent access to more affordable alternatives," Grassley said in a statement.
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"If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music," Ek wrote in March.
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And, as we've learned from the Second Avenue subway misadventure, it's easy to inflate costs massively when the taxpayer is footing the bill and government isn't controlling the costs.
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Liverpool did not purchase van Dijk for his attacking prowess — though it might have helped inflate the fee a little — so much as for his defensive, and organizational, abilities.
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Both events happen so early in their respective campaign seasons, that they take on outsized importance and are able to inflate buzz and hype in one direction or another.
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Any serious reform plan should prohibit discrimination against these patients, but it should also move them into insurance risk pools where they will not inflate general health care costs.
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This strategic choice is framed, in part, by the idea that consciously downplaying signs of Democratic affiliation will avoid upsetting Trump voters, and thereby will not inflate GOP turnout.
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Meanwhile, the insurer and employer coalition spent about $4 million on ads portraying the federal benchmark payment as the solution that doesn't inflate health costs, according to a spokesperson.
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Among individual movers, shares in Wirecard slumped 15.8% after the Financial Times published documents on the company's accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits, dealers said.
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In the pursuit of a larger refund or a lower tax bill, some taxpayers may inflate their deductions or try to get credits they really are not eligible for.
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That's not always the case with some of his fellow CRT enthusiasts, who fear that more media coverage will inflate prices and bring in too many newbies, Taylor said.
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The state's energy commission has seemingly hacked the system with its new "road map" approach to investigating mechanisms and policies that tackle inefficient appliances that inflate consumer utility bills.
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Trump, a real estate mogul who has consistently appeared to inflate his wealth, vowed since early on in his 2016 campaign that he would refuse a salary if elected.
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Even as insurers' drug spending has grown slowly, critics say the rebate game has served to inflate the list price of drugs, which consumers are increasingly responsible for paying.
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This means Ireland gets to artificially inflate its tax revenue while Apple artificially reduces its revenue, by ensuring that no taxes at all are paid to other European states.
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"Both of them were fixing prices, they did bid rigging to inflate prices," said one of the sources who is aware of the allegations made by the Indian Railways.
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Buying a car from a dealership is an experience fraught with countless fees and taxes, all of which inflate the total cost of the vehicle far above its headline price.
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Its air bag inflators can inflate violently, releasing metal shrapnel into the vehicle and have been blamed for 11 deaths and more than 100 injuries, mainly in the United States.
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"It seems likely that TWE has taken advantage of acquisition accounting with the purchase of Diageo Wine to inflate profits... although the benefits are now likely winding down," GMT wrote.
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However, if too many drillers are simultaneously trying to make good on their expensive purchases in the Permian, all that activity could inflate wages and oilfield service costs, analysts warn.
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Hang gliders or Rogallo wings do this for example, by stretching a thin fabric between a supporting frame, while parafoils do this by using ram air to inflate the fabric.
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You could call the workers that perform these tasks AI trainers or data annotators, but those roles tend to inflate the importance of the work and downplay its grueling nature.
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In the early 2000s, Greg Mankiw's CEA campaigned less successfully for reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored housing agencies that later helped inflate a housing bubble.
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Prosecutors allege that the leaders lied to investors to inflate the value of a OneCoin from half a euro ($0.56) to almost 30 euros ($33.65) as of January this year.
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Instead, the apps, which ranged from a calculator to a yoga pose repository, ran invisible ads in the background of the device, generating phony website clicks to inflate ad revenues.
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The short seller said the owner of the Tumi brand had concealed slowing growth through debt-fuelled acquisitions and had used accounting methods to massage earnings and inflate profit margins.
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American companies could also be running out of will and ammunition for stock buybacks, which drive down PE ratios and inflate prices, as lawmakers look set to target the practice.
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Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors of using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration against them.
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A recent report by Viceroy Research, which hunts for stocks to sell short, or bet against, accuses Steinhoff of using off-balance-sheet vehicles to inflate profits and mask losses.
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Almost half of that weight is from something incredible: a 12-foot wide space house that astronauts are going to stick to the side of the ISS and then inflate.
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And the issue does not lie in year 1, as both the Social Security cost-of-living adjustments and Medicare premiums are not expected to inflate on an equal level.
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And it may be helping inflate banks' balance sheets, which in aggregate have increased tenfold in 10 years to over three times gross domestic product at $30 trillion, he said.
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As local governments deal with important transportation and land-use issues, the results of these decisions will potentially inflate or depress real estate values and change the way developers operate.
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A falling pound would inflate the value of overseas assets denominated in foreign currency, while the same effect on domestic liabilities would be less noticeable, as more are sterling-denominated.
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The premium, according to the Beer Institute, "has become a device to speculate and artificially inflate the price paid for aluminum at the expense of end-user businesses and consumers".
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So if you don't have a record of when you're born and you're going to guesstimate your age, and after the age of 80, people begin to inflate their age.
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Clark Miller, who is represented by Cross & Simon and Lowenstein Sandler, had sued Insys alleging it made false and misleading statements between 2014 and 2016 to inflate its stock price.
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Critics have said Samsung BioLogics breached accounting standards by switching the valuation method of its stake in a joint venture in 2015 to inflate profits before listing a year later.
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"What it's really designed to do is to inflate the value of assets — real assets: real estate, stocks, et cetera," he said in "Off the Chain," a digital-assets podcast.
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During the hearing, Cohen testified that Trump would undervalue his assets to reduce his real-estate tax bills, while he would inflate the value of his assets for insurance purposes.
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Prosecutors said the operation involved hacking companies to get customers' contact data, and then giving misleading information about stocks to those people so they could artificially inflate the stock price.
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Blue Orca Capital said the owner of the Tumi brand had concealed slowing growth through debt-fuelled acquisitions and had used accounting methods to massage earnings and inflate profit margins.
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Mr. Anderson said that sites like Tingo and tripBAM that automatically rebook reservations at a lower price pose a bigger threat to hotels because they artificially inflate the cancellation rate.
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That allows Shift to offer loans at rates of 4-9%—more or less what a conventional dealer would offer, but without the same incentive to inflate the sales price.
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Many question the accuracy of most Chinese government data, since officials may have incentive to inflate or deflate the figures they report in order to show compliance with central policy.
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Cohen reportedly plans to tell lawmakers that Trump engaged in criminal conduct while in office, made racist remarks and took steps to inflate or deflate his wealth for business purposes.
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According to the FTC's findings, SoFi would inflate the average lifetime savings consumers could achieve — sometimes even as much as double the actual savings — by excluding large categories of consumers.
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"The media's willingness to inflate Papadopoulos, a young unpaid volunteer and supposed energy expert, into an important thought leader in the campaign or Russian operative is ludicrous," Mr. Cobb said.
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Update, 8/15, 9:40am: BravinLee has informed us that the Trump rat will inflate today at 12:30pm at a site within a five-block radius of Trump Tower.
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While staff can't exactly arrive at the office for another day of doing whatever it is bankers actually do all day—inflate the price of wheat in Uzbekistan for fun?
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Filson's 1784 book, "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke," was really a long brochure, meant to inflate the value of the author's real estate near present-day Lexington.
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Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
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These are proposals that eliminate the cronyism, backroom deals, and hidden contracts that artificially inflate costs, and that preserve and expand choice and the important relationship between doctors and patients.
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Honda says its most recent issue is unrelated to Takata's massive safety scandal, which involves faults that can cause airbag inflators to explode, under-inflate or spew shrapnel at passengers.
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When an unnamed person at the firm confronted Ahuja and Majidi about pressure to inflate values, Ahuja told the person to "put on your big boy pants," the indictment said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Wirecard rejected allegations of impropriety on Tuesday after the Financial Times newspaper published documents on the company's accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits.
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The least egregious stretch of the truth is when candidates inflate their GPA, according to the 92% of hiring managers who would still hire someone who lied about their score.
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Their industry group also contends that the main effect of the tariffs or export restrictions has been to inflate the cost of lumber by about $3,000 on a typical home.
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YouTube is introducing a major change to its music chart system after discovering that artists and labels were using growth hacks to inflate how many people were watching their videos.
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He said Weisselberg was also aware of Trump's alleged efforts to inflate his assets and revenues for insurance purposes and to undervalue his assets in order to avoid paying taxes.
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But one of the skid-mounted emergency floats that the pilot activated failed to properly inflate, causing the helicopter to pitch in its direction and quickly invert in the water.
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Trump takes what Forbes says very seriously, according to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who alleged Trump would inflate his wealth to appear higher on the magazine's ranking of billionaires.
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By denying electricity users the opportunity to participate in the shale-gas revolution, with all of its associated economic benefits, the bailout plan would inflate electric power costs for consumers.
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They were also able to strip USMCA of a measure to lock in 10 years of market exclusivity for biologic drugs, arguing the provision would inflate high prescription drug prices.
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While it's hard to fault a parent for being too attentive, his or her eagerness to intercede really does seem to inflate a child's risk for anxiety down the road.
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NASA had hoped to expand BEAM using spurts of air from the station, before pressurizing it to inflate to the size of a small bedroom, a 10-fold increase in volume.
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Both may play a role, but there is another theory that's viable: Starting with the Reagan tax cuts passed the 1980s, CEOs have more incentive than ever to inflate their pay.
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Officials say they fear the sites might violate local housing laws or inflate housing costs, so the City Council wants to study the sites while forbidding their use in the meantime.
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In one instance, Chinese officials allegedly agreed to inflate the cost of infrastructure projects in Malaysia, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month — a claim that Xi's government has denied.
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U.S. traded shares of Teva Pharmaceutical plunged more than 16% on Monday after 44 states sued the company, alleging it orchestrated a sweeping scheme with 19 other drugmakers to inflate prices.
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According to Facebook, these spammers artificially inflate engagement in the News Feed by creating many posts in different Facebook groups at the same time to build traffic to ad farms quickly.
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The new deal could inflate its cost structure, piling pressure on the company's stock which has lost nearly 40 percent since March 1 when Trump decided to impose the metal tariffs.
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British telecoms regulator Ofcom has urged Brussels to block the merger of O2 UK and Three, which it fears could inflate mobile phone bills in the UK, the Financial Times reported.
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The habitats are meant to launch deflated, taking up less room on a rocket, and then inflate once they reach space, providing more overall volume for humans to live and work.
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Later that month, a short selling firm published a report claiming Valeant hid its ties to Philidor and used the pharmacy to artificially inflate sales in order to drive up prices.
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"He had engaged in self-dealing to inflate loan-origination numbers and he had inflated the assets of subsidiaries of LendingClub before the IPO—both issues involving financial reporting," Alsup wrote.
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Both ECB President Mario Draghi and Economy Minister Giovanni Tria say the mini-BOTs would either be illegal as a form of parallel currency or simply inflate Italy's already high debt.
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Details: The research found questions that don't allow a "I don't know" answer could inflate the level of acceptance, forcing people to pick an option that may not represent their positions.
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Released Thursday in Science, the study, led by engineers James Pikul and Rob Shepherd, presents a skin-like material that starts out flat but can inflate and expand into specific shapes.
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This may advance the field somewhat, but it's also a good way to sustain hopeless businesses, crowd out private investment, encourage cronyism, inflate bubbles, and generally make a hash of things.
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His lawsuit claims that those museums violate anti-trust laws by conspiring with galleries including Gagosian, Pace, David Zwirner, Marian Goodman, and Hauser & Wirth to inflate the prices of certain artists.
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Some fans likely used free trials to put the album on repeat, trials that may yet expire; the push Tidal gave the album may have helped to inflate its play counts.
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That could please some investors who say private placements are often opaque and can be used to inflate share valuations, but it could also cut off a lifeline to struggling companies.
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The SoundAsleep Dream Series Air Mattress with ComfortCoil Technology & Internal High Capacity Pump is our top pick because it's comfortable, easy to inflate, and big enough for two to sleep comfortably.
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After you've whipped up an impressive outdoor dinner Bear Grylls would scoff at and it's time to hit the hay, just roll out the pad as it begins to automatically inflate.
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The point about Trump's embroidered versions of truth is not that it's misleading but that it offers a narrative that his allies in conservative media and on Capitol Hill can inflate.
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His attempts to inflate the number of people who attended his inauguration have already hurt his reputation – and weakened his position when it comes to persuading others to tell the truth.
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The Post reported that Defense Secretary James Mattis argued in favor of the larger defense budget, despite reservations from budget director Mick Mulvaney that the spending increase would inflate the deficit.
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But here goes: Most disruptive developments in technology and finance eventually inflate into speculative bubbles as investors and traders assume that the intrinsic value of these new vehicles will expand forever.
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"I'm an introvert at heart," he said earlier in the bathroom as he zipped up the suit, which began to inflate thanks to a small battery-operated fan at his waist.
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An investigation by Oklahoma Watch revealed that the largest virtual charter school in the state had allowed, encouraged and pressured teachers to manipulate student enrollment to inflate the school's accountability score.
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Several influencers and marketers told CNN Business there is concern that hiding likes will make it harder to sniff out which accounts have bought fake followers to fraudulently inflate their popularity.
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Inflate your tires to the middle of the range shown on the side of your tires, head out for a ride, and then stop at points and experiment with different pressures.
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One provision could do away with the system of "credit hours" that college students earn to complete their degrees, which could help for-profit colleges inflate the value of their degrees.
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From the Philippines and Ecuador to Turkey and Kenya, governing parties used paid commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites and propaganda outlets to inflate their popular support and essentially endorse themselves.
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Just this week, RBA Governor Philip Lowe argued the drag from mining was almost over and cutting rates again would only serve to inflate a debt-driven bubble in the housing market.
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"Executives at Teva Pharmaceuticals allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to collude surreptitiously with competitors, artificially inflate the prices of over a hundred generic drugs, and destroy evidence of criminal conduct," they wrote.
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" Cummings said he too was "troubled by the allegations that Teva and its peers conspired to inflate the prices of lifesaving generic drugs, and that they obstructed our investigation in the process.
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"If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music," said Ek in a March blog post.
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In the footage, the two men in their early 20s laugh as they unwrap and inflate condoms, later handing them to police in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the 2011 uprising.
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But only about 3 trillion yen would come from direct spending by national and local governments, they said, with the rest comprised of loan programs and subsidies to inflate the total amount.
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But Avaaz's findings suggest Facebook's risk assessment of Spain's general election has had a pretty hefty blind spot when it comes to proactively picking up malicious attempts to inflate far-right propaganda.
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Before President Trump agreed to support a 2-year budget deal that would inflate the national debt and allow $320 billion in new spending, he monitored Fox News for signs of rebellion.
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Balloon fans may enjoy watching their partners orally inflate them, or they may want to pop the balloons in a variety of ways using other core kinks such as cigarettes or feet.
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I know beauty standards are very different here, and that open criticism is more accepted, but I miss American sales reps who inflate my ego in hope of selling me eye cream.
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The wider societal impact of algorithmic suggestions that inflate conspiracy theories and/or promote bogus, anti-factual health or scientific content have also been repeatedly raised as a concern — including on YouTube.
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In the same way a person might inflate their lifestyle to match their income, working in the backcountry teaches you that you can deflate your expectations when it comes to creature comforts.
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The Mainline currently operates under a system in which shippers nominate the barrels they want to move each month, generating criticism that some larger producers inflate their nominations to game the system.
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Prosecutors said Singer since 2011 used his Edge College & Career Network and an affiliated nonprofit to help prospective students cheat on college admission tests and bribe coaches to inflate their athletic credentials.
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Laval, Quebec-based Valeant's troubles mounted late last year when questions were raised about its drug pricing and allegations emerged that it was using distributor Philidor RX Services to inflate dermatology revenue.
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The Mainline currently operates under a system in which customers nominate the barrels they want to move each month, generating criticism that some larger shippers inflate their nominations to game the system.
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Valeant's troubles began late last year when questions were raised about its drug pricing and allegations emerged that it was using distributor Philidor RX Services to inflate revenue in its dermatology business.
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"You inflate the price of the vehicle, and a car that was maybe within reach of being affordable now may not be," said Mark Scarpelli, the group's new chairman, according to Reuters.
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In Brazil, ranked among the world's most expensive nations to do business, benefits and taxes inflate workers' salaries by 40 to 60 percent, according to Rio de Janeiro-based think tank FGV.
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Roughly a month later, astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory 250 miles (400 km) above Earth will inflate BEAM with pressurized air, increasing its volume to about the size of a small bedroom.
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Earlier in the day Tuesday, Gates testified during direct questioning from federal prosecutors that he helped Manafort inflate his income on profit and loss statements to obtain a bank loan in 2016.
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Bolten and Bertsch said that it's possible for buybacks to be abused, such as if a company bought back its own shares to artificially inflate its stock prices in the short run.
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Italy told the European Commission on Monday it would stick to its 2019 budget plans in defiance of EU fiscal rules, but promised not to further inflate its deficit in coming years.
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In November, a Business Insider investigation discovered that "pump and dump" scams — where investor groups artificially inflate cryptocurrency values by orchestrating mass purchases of coins — were "rife" on the US exchange Bittrex.
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For example, if Yui detects that the driver is tired, it will inflate the seat back to make the driver sit up straighter and pump cool air from the seat's ventilation system.
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The bolsters on the left and right side of the seat inflate when the wheel is turned to hold the driver and passenger in place around tight turns and through hard cornering.
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And like every other daily crisis political media loves to inflate to DEFCON 5, that finger is pointing responsibility for fake news at the feet of ... President-elect Trump and his team.
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Congressional Republicans took shots at CBO for its accuracy when it projected that their health-care plans would reduce coverage for millions, and that the GOP tax plan would inflate the deficit.
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The collective eventually had the idea to use video projections to inflate the illustrations and screen them on the sides of buildings and from a moving car onto the ocean and trees.
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But recent signs of stability have been achieved by the government's unleashing a torrent of state-directed credit, with some of it going to further inflate a bubble in the property market.
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I don't need to inflate my ego, balloon my bank account or grab the spotlight whenever possible, because I am happy knowing I am making a positive, lasting difference in people's lives.
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Buybacks can provide a windfall to corporate executives and other investors because they tend to inflate the price of a stock by reducing the number of shares of that stock in circulation.
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"There is no need to embark on panic-buying, the country has enough food supplies," Didiza said, adding the government would be monitoring food retailers to ensure sellers do not inflate prices.
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U is a selection of colored Baby Yoshis that perform different actions: shoot bubbles to trap and defeat enemies, light up dark areas, and inflate into balloons, carrying Mario into the sky.
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When the researchers noticed that the patients with lower blood pressures had far better outcomes, they stopped the trial early, a controversial practice that could inflate how effective their methods appeared, said Kansagara.
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Part of the problem is that if just one person in several million has an adverse reaction to a vaccine, their story will spread and inflate on social media with no wider context.
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The principal contractor, Brazilian conglomerate Andrade Gutierrez, made headlines last year when its chief officers were arrested in São Paulo as part of an alleged corruption scheme to inflate prices on major projects.
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China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement the investigation into sorghum, used in animal feed and liquor, had revealed that anti-dumping and anti-subsidies penalties would inflate living costs for Chinese consumers.
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The NSA's "technical irregularities" claim is reminiscent of the FBI's assertion in May that "programming errors" caused it to wildly inflate the number of encrypted phones it couldn't access in various criminal cases.
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Clinton said that she would work on stopping predatory pricing, noting that big companies who buy up smaller manufacturers in order to inflate prices are "outrageous," and that Shkreli's was a prime example.
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The worse outcome for workers, Rosengren and others have said, would be to let markets inflate too much, and crash again, even if that means risking a bit higher unemployment in the interim.
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Thankfully these apps didn't take control of a victim's phone or steal data, but they did run invisible ads in the background of the device, generating phony website clicks to inflate ad revenues.
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Michael Cohen told Congress in February that Trump would fraudulently inflate and deflate the value of his properties to avoid paying taxes, a claim that some of the available documents seem to support.
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Brainerd: And they do that anywhere 2115 or 210 times, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, until they inflate completely, and then they hold it and they'll just be a big, spiny ball.
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Public adulation did not inflate his sense of the poet's role: It was more important to him to be a man who wrote poems than to be the figure known as the Poet.
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Yet a concern that is often heard is that index investing helps to inflate bubbles, because index funds are forced to put more money into fashionable stocks even as they become more expensive.
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According to Abhishek Narwariya*, a Gurgaon-based coder who worked for an e-commerce app that used bot accounts to inflate certain influencers, the smarter bots are impossible to distinguish from real people.
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KELT-9b is over twice the size of Jupiter, but it's only half as dense; the extreme radiation from its host star, KELT-9, has caused its atmosphere to inflate like a balloon.
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Yet for most of that time, markets have boomed defiantly, leading hawks to warn that the central bank was letting a bubble inflate—ie, that financial conditions were too loose, the opposite worry.
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In 2015, Modi was fined 480 million rupees for exporting and importing the same diamonds through Surat's Special Economic Zone to inflate export numbers, an official with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said.
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The initiatives are seen as long-term investments to peace, but they threaten to inflate Seoul's debt load and may become a burden if inter-Korea relations hit a road-bump, experts warned.
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The CEO of a vegan food start-up that's raised more than $120 million defended his company from accusations that it was buying inventory of its vegan mayonnaise in order to inflate sales.
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She named Scott the "Ho N*gga of the Week" and accused him of bundling tour tickets with his new album to inflate his sales numbers and bump Queen down to No. 2.
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The projected extra needs would inflate China's gas demand by a quarter, according to consultancy Wood Mackenzie - some 50 billion cubic metres (bcm), more than the whole of France consumes in a year.
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Much of the data that determines ratings is self-reported by nursing homes, and reviews of this system have found numerous cases of facilities attempting to "game" the system to inflate their ratings.
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He is accused of engineering a $500 million transaction to inflate AIG's reserves, and a $200 million transaction to hide underwriting losses from the auto-warranty program by converting them into investment losses.
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" The platform's spam policy covers many different types of bad behavior, including the posting of "duplicative or substantially similar content, replies, or mentions over multiple accounts" or "[attempting] to artificially inflate account interactions.
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But in recent years major companies have questioned whether the spending is effective, as metrics provided by tech giants like Facebook proved unreliable and unscrupulous players used computerized bots to inflate viewing figures.
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If BlackBerry could just get out of its own way and present its devices without trying to inflate pedestrian features, I think the company might have a pretty good device on its hands.
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A political bot might be programmed to leave supportive comments on a politician's Facebook page, target journalists with a flood of angry tweets, or engage with a post to artificially inflate its popularity.
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This again contradicts Stone's earlier remarks on his website, when he wrote that preparing to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee is what would inflate his legal bills near the million-dollar mark.
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Its so-called "zeroing methodology" -- long a problem for the trade body -- involves cherry-picking violators and neglecting law-abiding producers in a way that lets U.S. officials artificially inflate the penalties imposed.
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Shares in Wirecard sank more than 93% in early trading on Tuesday after the newspaper published documents on the company's accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits, dealers said.7.
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Germany's Wirecard rejected allegations of impropriety on Tuesday after the Financial Times newspaper published documents on the company's accounting practices which it said appeared to indicate an effort to inflate sales and profits.
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Bankruptcy veterans said the fees reflect the realities of Chapter 11, which can inflate costs: only a handful of law firms can put scores of experienced staff on a case on short notice.
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That prompted the traffic safety agency to set new rules that reduced the force of the bags, changed how the devices were tested and required that they not inflate in low-speed crashes.
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"Comscore recognized revenue on these transactions based on the fair value of the data it delivered, which had been improperly increased in order to inflate revenue," the SEC said in a statement Tuesday.
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One of the world's largest air bag suppliers, Takata is at the centre of a massive global recall of its of air bag inflators, which can inflate violently, releasing metal shrapnel into vehicles.
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Greenberg, 91, is facing civil charges from the New York Attorney General's Office of orchestrating a $500 million transaction to inflate the insurer's reserves and a $4017203 million transaction to hide underwriting losses.
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"A decade ago, growth in the housing market was driven primarily by loose and predatory lending, speculation and over-building — forces that only served to artificially inflate and overheat the market," she said.
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At the heart of Bloomberg's findings was that Hampton Creek had executed on a campaign to buy back mass quantities of its eggless mayo product to artificially inflate demand and, potentially, dupe investors.
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Not so that he can have better numbers — something he has been clear he likes to have, even if he must inflate them himself — but because his constituents are worried and rightly so.
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Brainerd: And they do that anywhere 10 or 15 times, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, until they inflate completely, and then they hold it and they'll just be a big, spiny ball.
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Tyurin, who allegedly conducted the hacks with several others, also participated in a scheme where stocks were marketed "in a deceptive and misleading manner" in an effort to inflate the price, investigators said.
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He is calling for a boycott of the election, saying it is an undemocratic farce, and deploying supporters to collect evidence of anyone rigging the ballot to inflate turnout and support for Putin.
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The Indian edition of the International Business Times has been caught using deceptive ad practices to inflate views, marking the third time the site has been called out for this kind of activity.
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Critics of President Donald Trump's economic policy will also point to the irony of his remarks as a candidate, when he suggested the government could inflate away its debt simply by printing money.
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This is mainly due to the transfer of the department's main transportation competencies in 2017, which will inflate both operating revenue and expenditure by the same amount and, consequently, weaken the operating margin.
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But only about 3 trillion yen would come from direct spending by national and local governments, they said, with the rest comprised of loan programmes and state subsidies to inflate the total size.
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Japan's market watchdog last month slapped the firm with a record $60 million fine over the affair, which saw the company inflate profits by about $1.2 billion since the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Treasury Wine Estates was also in the red, down as much as 7.7% after Hong Kong-based GMT Research alleged that the world's largest standalone winemaker may have used acquisition accounting to inflate profits.
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Little wonder lies spread and inflate so quickly via products that are not only hyper-accelerating the rate at which information can travel but deliberately pickling people inside a stew of their own prejudices.
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The regulator accused them of rigging the Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW) - a benchmark interest rate in Australia used to price trillions of dollars of assets - to inflate profit during the period 2010-2012.
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Tiurin was also accused of trying to artificially inflate the "price of certain stocks publicly traded in the United States," and obtained "hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds" from various hacking campaigns.
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Critics of such a system say it is unfairly stacked against China, with labor costs clearly higher in the United States and U.S. producers, also facing Chinese competitors, are inclined to inflate price estimates.
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Elsewhere, and in Kenya in 2013, PVT has been very close to the final result (see chart), making it far harder for an incumbent to inflate his tally, at least by a large amount.
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Silicon Valley insiders are sceptical, saying that Mr Son is force-feeding young firms with more capital than they deserve or need and that his fund will further inflate a bubble in technology valuations.
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Hugging the sleep robot while trying to fall asleep, my hand on its "belly" so I could feel it inflate and deflate, definitely focused my attention on breathing — the robot's, if not my own.
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Bridal boutiques hide the brands on their dresses so you can't comparison shop, and inflate lead times so you're pressured to buy on the spot for fear the dress won't be ready in time.
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The box will hinge open, another radio signal will trigger the compressed CO2 cartridge, and the diamond-shaped balloon will trail out behind the satellite body and inflate to its full 100-foot length.
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Air mattress models that plug into an outlet in order to inflate (and later deflate) by themselves in minutes may be more expensive, but we think this feature is definitely worth the extra cost.
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Buybacks are a popular method to return excess cash to shareholders because the moves are considered less permanent than dividends and often inflate stock prices and earnings per share by removing shares from circulation.
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Most manufacturers recommend you give the mattress two days to fully inflate, and the room may smell a bit gassy at first, so crack a window; the smell tends to dissipate within a day.
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Milan prosecutors this week formally put under investigation five former executives and employees of BT Italy, on allegations that they ran a conspiracy to fake transactions in order to inflate BT Italy's financial performance.
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The probe was sparked after short seller Andrew Left accused Valeant in October of using a specialty pharmacy, Philidor Rx Services, to inflate revenue, people familiar with the matter told Reuters earlier this month.
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The idea behind the Nitetronic is that sensors inside the pillow detect when the user is snoring and parts of the pillow inflate to ever so gently adjust your head position to the side.
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As I listened to him struggle to inflate and deflate his lungs, I did not feel busy or stressed, but deeply connected to my patient and his need for dignity in these final hours.
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Prosecutors said Liu would then stockpile the aluminum at four southern California warehouses, and with his associates orchestrate bogus sales to companies he controlled to inflate Zhongwang's financials and make it appear more valuable.
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To inflate her resume, Chang also said she worked at a nonprofit that used drones to provide humanitarian relief, but no one in the field seems to have heard of her or her group.
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Separately, Wirecard's Chief Executive told Handelsblatt that all it's business relationships were "authentic" as the firm hired KPMG his company to address allegations in the Financial Times about attempts to inflate sales and profits.
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The details: During her line of questioning, Cohen noted Trump had directed his deputies to inflate the value of his assets for insurance purposes, and the president devalued his assets to avoid paying taxes.
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Critics of such a system say it is unfairly stacked against China, with labour costs clearly higher in the United States and U.S. producers, also facing Chinese competitors, are inclined to inflate price estimates.
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Too often, manufacturer-negotiated discounts do not make it to the seniors they are designed to help, but rather serve to inflate the bottom lines of health insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen.
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To ensure states focus on cost savings rather than cost-shifting, the federal government should close various loopholes — like provider taxes — that let states inflate their declared spending solely to enhance their federal match.
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A growing number of economists are concerned that this flood of money may inflate the value of these securities well beyond what they are worth, potentially leading to a market bubble that eventually bursts.
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These are the kinds of reforms that will truly bend the cost curve in health coverage and stop the insanity of using so many subsidies and regulations to help big insurance companies inflate prices.
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The makers of the SAT are licensing personal data about test-takers to schools for 47 cents each, and schools are using it to inflate their acceptance rates, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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How is it possible that we have a man in the White House, with a supporting cast of characters unwilling to contradict him, who would sacrifice thousands of lives just to inflate the market?
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He said that while he was helping Mr. Manafort hide income to evade taxes, and later to inflate his income to obtain bank loans, he was doing essentially the same on his own behalf.
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Restrictive zoning laws, regulations requiring minimum lot sizes, lengthy environmental review requirements and other land-use restrictions have served to artificially inflate the costs of housing for years, particularly in the nation's prospering cities.
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The lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges that some of the defendants "sanctioned aggressive revenue recognition and creative accounting policies in order to inflate the valuations of Noble's 'associate companies' and long-term commodity contracts".
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Projections from the Modern Markets Initiative, Vanguard and other groups use "rigged" data in order to inflate the tax's impact on households and further the groups' own interests, Lincoln alleged in a recent report.
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Shares in Wirecard sank more than 20% in early trading on Tuesday after the Financial Times newspaper published documents on the company's accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits, dealers said.
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The pension fund alleged that ZTO left out certain low-margin business segments from its financial statements in order to inflate overall profit margins to lure investors into its initial public offering in 2016.
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Every level of government, including the federal government, should look to understand how its laws and regulations inflate costs or contain them, and whether they are open to innovation or turn away from it.
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We talked to a grower who says some labs have offered to inflate his marijuana's THC content in order to make it more valuable — a practice he believes jeopardizes the future of the industry.
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Outside the spill zone, just 15 per cent of the animals they found had this type of problem, which could suggest they died before birth, or right after—before their lungs could properly inflate.
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Though praised for weakening the FARC and drawing record foreign investment, Uribe has also been blamed for the military&aposs killing of thousands of civilians who were falsely portrayed as rebels to inflate body counts.
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Xinhua said the Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity.
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Takata and its U.S. entity TK Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy in June after more than 100 million of its airbags were recalled because they could inflate with too much force and spray metal fragments.
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A Pennsylvania-based hospital system and its chief executive have agreed to pay $12.5 million to resolve allegations that they engaged in a scheme to artificially inflate reimbursements from federal healthcare programs for orthopedic surgeries.
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Egan in November 2016 agreed to pay more than $923,000 to resolve charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he participated in a scheme to inflate Autonomy's revenue numbers from 2009 to 2011.
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The latest report from the Medicare Board of Trustees is calling for Medicare Part premiums to inflate by 22.3 percent, increasing the Part B premium to $149 per month from $121.80 per month in 0.23.
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Prosecutors said Liu would then stockpile the aluminum at four southern California warehouses, and with his associates orchestrate bogus sales to companies he controlled to inflate China Zhongwang's financials and make it appear more valuable.
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The analysis shows that since the ACA was passed, health care executives routinely took measures to inflate stock prices — such as repurchasing shares or issuing dividends to shareholders — that led to higher take-home pay.
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Vilenkin took this notion a step further, arguing that quantum rules could also enable a minuscule bubble of space itself to burst into being from nothing, with the impetus to then inflate to astronomical scales.
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Lawmakers have suggested delaying the enforcement of the law, which is expected to inflate operators' costs, by five years to 2023, the Vedomosti business daily reported on Tuesday, citing sources and pushing telecoms stocks higher.
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Prosecutors also alleged that Tuzman, as CEO of the digital video company, helped run a scheme with a hedge fund manager from 2008 to 2011 to artificially inflate Kit Digital's share price and trading volume.
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According to the Social Security Board of Trustees, the expected COLA going forward will be no higher than 2.7 percent, while the costs associated with Medicare are expected to inflate by at least 5.35 percent.
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Every S&P 500 Index fund will buy only after the price has gone up, since investors inflate the price knowing billions of dollars of the stock must be purchased when a company is added.
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It was NASA's second attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, named for the aerospace company that created it as a precursor to potential moon and Mars habitats, and orbiting tourist hotels.
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RBA governor Philip Lowe recently reiterated that the drag on Australia's economy from mining was almost over and cutting rates further would only serve to inflate a debt-ridden bubble in the country's housing market.
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But in all these markets, as well as other sectors such as clothing, transport and child-care, regulations at the state, federal and local level often inflate living costs, to the detriment of the poor.
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There are a number of factors that go into finding the perfect air mattress: comfort, ease and time to inflate/deflate, height, firmness, air pressure and retention, manufacturing materials, and portability, to name a few.
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Authorities say nongovernmental groups inflate figures to create paranoia and tarnish the government, but even so the most recent official national murder rate - 58 per 100,000 inhabitants for 2015 - was still among the world's highest.
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But Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Naftalis said Lumiere, wanting to keep his job, was seeking to inflate the value of the bond fund's securities holdings after his positions sustained losses and investors began pulling out.
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That followed the April 2015 arrest of Richard St. Julien, a Canadian citizen who was ForceField's executive chairman, on charges he schemed to inflate the stock price of his company, once called SunSi Energies Inc.
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Valeant cut ties with Philidor Rx in October after it was revealed that the distributor had used aggressive tactics to try to increase insurer reimbursements, mostly for dermatology drugs, to help the Valeant inflate revenue.
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