Leggings, dietary supplements, and essential oils are just some of the multilevel marketing products you can buy through distributors of multilevel marketing companies.
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This strategy is called multilevel marketing — though Stidham says he prefers "multilevel management" — and it's also used by companies like Mary Kay, Beachbody, and The Pampered Chef.
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The vulturine guineafowl, in other words, have a multilevel society.
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That business model is known as multilevel marketing, or MLM.
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In impersonal, multilevel social buildings, the close-knit community was gone.
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There aren't any deep multilevel menus, and it's essentially replicating keyboard shortcuts.
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Multilevel marketing companies recruit people to sell their products, usually on commission.
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It was a clever fusion of multilevel marketing and social media manipulation.
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Sniffing herbs is often associated with new-age pseudoscience and multilevel marketing schemes.
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Scientists discovered that vulturine guineafowl live in multilevel societies reminiscent of our own.
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She recently had a hip operation, and moved slowly through her multilevel house.
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They warned Richard that most multilevel-marketing outfits were nearly indestructible, like cockroaches.
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Her husband Dick DeVos is the heir to the Amway multilevel marketing company.
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M. The newest multilevel project by Vogue offers up an eclectic look into womanhood.
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The state of Washington alleges that the multilevel marketer is an illegal pyramid scheme.
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It has taken up residence in the multilevel premises that housed Union Square Cafe.
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The founder of LuLaRoe, an embattled multilevel marketing company, was outlining a sales pitch.
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The multilevel space is divided into a collection of areas for dining and drinking.
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"In a legitimate multilevel marketing company, they're going to have financial statements," he said.
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This is a far cry from the success stories promoted by most multilevel marketing companies.
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Despite this multilevel success, or perhaps because of it, Byrne remains resolutely curious and deferential.
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This library would fit right in, with its intricate spiral staircase and multilevel cherry bookshelves.
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Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur or be part of a digital multilevel marketing scheme.
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Since then, a comprehensive, multilevel campaign against drunk driving has cut that number in half.
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INDOORS: The multilevel house was built in 1958 and renovated over the past 10 years.
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He was there to introduce them to a multilevel-marketing outfit that sold Cutco knives.
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Multilevel marketing companies work by not only selling a product, but by recruiting new sellers.
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Imagine the locks like escalators in a mall, moving passing boats across a multilevel concourse.
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The extent of the contrivance will set off multilevel credulity alarms in viewers paying close attention.
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Some kinds of baboons live in groups within groups, a structure that's called a multilevel society.
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Its structure, like that of many multilevel-marketing firms, was complex to the point of opacity.
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Our model is based on a frequently used survey technique called multilevel regression and post-stratification.
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The performance was a vehement, multilevel blast against "modern day slavery" that's bound for extensive Internet exegesis.
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More established salespeople earn a commission from the sales made by their recruits, hence the "multilevel" dimension.
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It was spring 2014, and the most closely followed multilevel marketing company on Earth was under siege.
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"Allumette" is a bittersweet wordless story about a young girl in a multilevel city in the clouds.
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Mavely also said it was improving on the multilevel-marketing-company model, which has come under scrutiny.
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Taylor found that over 99% of participants lost money in each of the multilevel marketing companies analyzed.
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"Having a multilevel structure may, in and of itself, not require having a large brain," he said.
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Instead, they have been left with something that many feel more closely resembles a multilevel parking garage.
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Herbalife has defended its model, saying it is similar to multilevel marketing companies like Avon or Amway.
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But the commission dropped the charge and declared the company's business strategy a legal multilevel marketing approach.
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Outdoor space: The 0.45-acre property includes a multilevel bluestone patio beyond the conservatory and screened porch.
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The couple wound up investing in a multilevel marketing program that wound up being a pyramid scheme.
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Elsewhere, children can climb onto a model of a multilevel dhou, a boat used to transport goods.
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At worst, its association with the term "multilevel marketing" has become synonymous with pyramid schemes, fair or not.
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Unlike many businesses that require buy-in from a centralized entity, KonMari is not a multilevel marketing company.
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Multilevel societies also let animals adjust their group sizes based on whatever challenges they're facing, Dr. Swedell says.
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The reporter Mina Kimes deftly unpacks this company's methods — ever hear of a multilevel marketing model, like Herbalife?
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We should engage in multilingual, multilevel community health education efforts that target all communities and backgrounds in America.
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When will we come to realize We're all stoned or pacified While the boogeymen organize Their multilevel schemes?
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Multilevel marketing was officially denounced as an "economic cult," and in 1998 the government banned all direct selling.
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It's a spacious, multilevel restaurant in the genre's requisite wood paneling, though here it's enlivened by metal accents.
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Another choice is the multilevel Roof bar atop the Hotel Casa Romana, for its take on a Negroni.
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In addition to the financial settlement, the Texas-based company will be banned from the multilevel marketing business.
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Their main complaint was that Rodan + Fields engages in the "predatory" business practices of a multilevel marketing structure.
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That is why I have always had multilevel identity — not a fully Italian one, not fully Polish either.
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Norwegian Joy will also have hovercraft bumper cars, a multilevel green park and a luxury duty-free shopping area.
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Meanwhile, at Soho Zebrano, a multilevel bar with a dance floor, a Brexit "zombie nightmare" was just getting going.
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Stidham is the founder of LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketing company best known for its cheerily patterned "buttery soft" leggings.
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The "multilevel regression" and "post-stratification" model accurately predicted the 2017 hung parliament, so it will be closely watched.
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Mr. Oepriarto persuaded her to join Amway and introduced her to another multilevel marketing scheme involving Chinese herbal supplements.
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The giants of multilevel marketing have come under a dual assault, from regulators here and in the United States.
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However, they then want you to build your team, lead an office, all the normal multilevel-marketing song and dance.
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Correction: A previous version of this piece attributed a 2017 report on multilevel marketing companies to the Federal Trade Commission.
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The board will vote on the purchase of 113 multilevel passenger vehicles, including passenger amenities and parts, for $3.813 million.
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"This is a multilevel audience play," said Laura Ingraham, the conservative talk show host, who has relished Mr. Trump's rise.
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"It looks like they have demonstrated a multilevel society, which is really interesting in these small-brained birds," she said.
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More to do nearby: 1015 Folsom, a sprawling, multilevel, multifaceted club, plays mainstream dance music and hip-hop till 3.
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Skovron is an expert in a modeling technique designed to estimate district-level opinion called multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP).
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Jewels, dinosaurs, and "work-love-song-art-play-law-beauty" are noted, but so are slavery, starvation, and multilevel marketing.
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In "The Dream," the former "This American Life" producer Jane Marie dives into America's love affair with multilevel marketing schemes.
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Here are some red flags to watch out for if you're approached about getting involved in a multilevel marketing program.
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New university buildings have glass walls and multilevel open spaces for group discussions — with screened-off areas for private conversations.
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The display is more like a tower than an ancient pyramid, resembling a multilevel carousel tiered like a wedding cake.
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At one multilevel marketing company, "92 percent of the 130,000 consultants make $500 a year on average," according to Flexjobs.
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The current system arguably exists for a good reason: Baseball needs a multilevel developmental system more than other major league sports.
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Multilevel marketing always operates on the exploitation of the world's only truly renewable resource: the hopes and aspirations of everyday people.
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But the most surprising name on the list is Michelle Van Etten, who sells products through the multilevel marketing company Youngevity.
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When they are not needed, an army of self-driving cars can drive themselves to multilevel garages or off-city parking.
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I have to walk down a long, winding hallway before I find myself at the multilevel bridge, where the commander waits.
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Some side hustles are nothing more than pyramid schemes disguised as multilevel marketing programs that can lead to major financial losses.
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Inside the multifaceted, multilevel art space that is Red Bull Studios New York, there a deconstructed spaceship occupies the main gallery.
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Researchers have found evidence for multilevel societies in some other large-brained mammals, such as monkeys, elephants, giraffes and sperm whales.
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The guest cottage is on the other end of a multilevel pine deck, with a swimming pool connecting the two structures.
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Some multilevel marketing programs — where participants earn commissions for their sales and the sales of those in their "downline" — are legitimate.
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OUTDOOR SPACE The 20366-acre lot includes a multilevel deck at the back of the house, with openings to accommodate trees.
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Meanwhile, in June 2013, Dianne filed an LLC for her own multilevel marketing business called Honey and Lace, now called Piphany.
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This ambitious multilevel Midtown Manhattan branch of the Beijing roast-duck chain has closed after a little less than two years.
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In the meantime, this show at the multilevel Brooklyn event space Elsewhere is a good choice for anyone seeking wintry thrills.
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Nxivm operated like a multilevel marketing scheme, pushing members to take classes that cost as much as $5,000, according to court records.
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If you look at it from the right angle, this type of blogging begins to resemble a cousin of multilevel marketing (MLM).
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Multilevel marketing typically involves a pyramidlike structure wherein very successful salespeople recruit other salespeople, who in turn are encouraged to recruit others.
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Perhaps we would have seen more adventurous uses of infrastructure and unused space, from multilevel roadways to more buildings on landfill. —S.
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About an hour later, state troopers located the truck and tried to question Ortiz, who ran to a multilevel hotel parking garage.
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" He said the volume of the contract is 999 multilevel cars, but he said the "agency has not awarded the contract yet.
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Aprazível This multilevel indoor-outdoor restaurant in the hills overlooking the harbor provides an opportunity to explore the arty Santa Teresa neighborhood.
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A large multilevel patio occupies most of the yard, with spaces for lounging, dining and grilling around a pool and hot tub.
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Poland rejects a "multilevel" or "two-speed" Europe, with an inner core of eurozone states and an outer ring of lesser members.
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Why have a log flume with one big drop when you could build it on multilevel terrain and have three giant splashes?
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In the multilevel set we see circus posters plastered to the walls of the boys' bedroom and shelves crammed with toy soldiers.
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She was invited to join a direct sales company, sometimes called multilevel marketing, pyramid selling, a home-based business or network marketing.
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At Hotel Makaabá, an open, concrete grid rises above a multilevel, sun-warmed pool meant to mimic the lagoon and its cenotes.
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It's been around since 2002, but enjoyed a moment in 2015, and it continues to advertise to vulnerable populations through multilevel marketing.
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According to the Direct Selling Association, the multilevel marketing (MLM) industry's lobbying arm, one in six American households is involved in the industry.
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I had a real bad taste in my mouth about multilevel marketing in general, and I had kind of sworn it off forever.
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She works as an editor at Christianity Today magazine, where she wrote a cover story on the relationship between evangelicalism and multilevel marketing.
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Many nurses have recently turned to multilevel marketing as a way to supplement their incomes or as a path out of the field.
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Utah has more multilevel-marketing companies per capita than any other state; direct sales are Utah's second-biggest source of revenue, after tourism.
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Tucker relocated sneakers from three storage facilities across the country to prepare for the completion of his multilevel "sneaker only loft" in Houston.
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Norwegian Cruise Lines announced its newest ship, Norwegian Joy, will have a multilevel racetrack onboard — the first racetrack at sea, according to the company.
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By then, I'd become accustomed to these kinds of parties, where friends who work for multilevel marketing companies try to sell me their wares.
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Multilevel marketing (MLM), this model of friends selling to friends on behalf of a company, hadn't just taken over my networks; it was everywhere.
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Mixing straightforward observation, in-the-moment interviews, and self-reflexive depictions of fantasy play, the film constructs a multilevel metaphor for the American dream.
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Independent estimates suggest that as much as 99 percent of multilevel marketing participants lose money due to unsold stock, participation fees, and other costs.
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In some cases, robocalls proliferate through programs that resemble multilevel marketing schemes, where business founders push robocall packages on "members" to spur quick growth.
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In recent years, a number of multilevel-marketing companies that target millennials have cropped up, selling everything from leggings (LuLaRoe) to jewelry (Stella & Dot).
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There are fancy aquatic complexes with multilevel hot tubs and awesomely dangerous water slides of the sort that litigious American culture would never allow.
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The 12 who twirl through these nearly 450 minutes gave it their all, reciting reams of text while cavorting around the intricate, multilevel set.
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And based on the research, nearly everyone who opts to join a multilevel marketing company in these uncertain times will never see a profit.
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OUTDOOR SPACE The 0.33-acre property includes a multilevel stone terrace built into the side of the hill with an arbor at the top.
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How to avoid a scheme Some pyramid schemes masquerade as legal multilevel marketing companies, which also rely on continued recruitment with often minimal returns.
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Known as an MRP poll - an acronym for its Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification model - it predicted 93% of results in individual constituencies correctly.
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In 2015, the apparel chain H&M moved across the street, to 2943 Broadway, from its 59,500-square-foot multilevel home at 1328 Broadway.
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Much of Douglas County's landscape is dominated by multilevel suburban homes, packed shopping centers, and broad avenues lined with impeccably manicured grass and trees.
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She's the daughter-in-law of one of the co-founders of Amway, the multilevel marketing behemoth, with a family fortune estimated at $5 billion.
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Typical measures of affluence don't seem to apply: Sprawling, multilevel homes surrounded by fleets of gleaming trucks sit next to dilapidated trailers and auto junkyards.
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WASHINGTON — Jane Doe, a hospice worker from California, was still undecided midway through an investor recruitment meeting in 20183 for a multilevel marketing company, ACN.
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When he saw the Broadway production of "August: Osage County" in 2008, Mr. Ruddy imagined what skilled improvisers could do on its elaborate, multilevel set.
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The Pip-Boy requires awkward trackpad swipes for tiny multilevel menus, while games like Star Trek: Bridge Crew prove you can make complicated interfaces fun.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this multilevel portrait of family as civil conflict, and the able cast is led by a luminous Charlayne Woodard (2:15).
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this multilevel portrait of family as civil conflict, and the able cast is led by a luminous Charlayne Woodard (227:2866).
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this multilevel portrait of family as civil conflict, and the able cast is led by a luminous Charlayne Woodard (13:15).
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this multilevel portrait of family as civil conflict, and the able cast is led by a luminous Charlayne Woodard (22:200).
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Multilevel marketers have networks of independent salespeople who in addition to selling products try to recruit additional salespeople in order to boost their own revenue.
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Whether naked and low-key strikes your fancy, or you're all about those multilevel, gold-flake iterations, you're going to want to see these goodies.
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"Herbalife is going to have to go from a D to a B-plus," Kevin Thompson, an attorney who works with multilevel-marketing companies, said.
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These multilevel, choose-your-own-adventure bars, built on the idea of Nashville, are boxing out the places that composed that idea in the first place.
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In the world of imperfect state-level polling, forecasters can turn to an academic statistical technique to sidestep this problem, called multilevel regression with post-stratification.
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If this sounds like a pyramid scheme, that's because it sometimes is, and the line between legal multilevel marketing and fraudulent pyramid schemes is fine indeed.
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"They need to have support at all levels of society, including multilevel support for policies and practices to protect, promote and support this basic human right."
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Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is such a confusing, multilevel maze of corridors lined with pizza parlors and coffee shops that even veteran commuters occasionally get lost.
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Brookfield also installed high-end shops, but the mall's anchor tenant, a multilevel Saks Fifth Avenue department store, closed this winter after less than two years.
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When a bizarre tragedy topples Krystal's already economically fragile life, she decides to harness the power of the multilevel marketing movement to her own advantage, finally.
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Mr. DeVos's father founded Amway, a multilevel marketing firm that specializes in selling health and beauty aids and had over $9 billion in sales in 2015.
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The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has a multilevel accreditation system for those who want to shrink China, though some set up illegally, too.
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For many years, the authorities even banned multilevel marketing tactics, likening companies such as Amway and Avon to "secret societies," before lifting the prohibition in 2006.
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For his efforts to establish the 28-acre, multilevel Riverbank State Park in Upper Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, it was renamed for him in 513.
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Prior to joining Congress, Chaffetz did public relations for Nu Skin Enterprises, a multilevel marketing company that makes and sells personal care products and dietary supplements.
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Now, Amway and other companies that use sales representatives to recruit others below them — in what's called multilevel marketing — face public skepticism, and in some cases investigations.
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Stewart and Khayat say Burst is not a multilevel marketing company, that they borrowed things they liked from direct selling companies and implemented some of those tactics.
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Farther southeast is the Nest, a dimly lighted multilevel haunt where the cast of David Lynch's dark film, "Blue Velvet," might feel at home playing Ping-Pong.
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The current quagmire includes: The Middle East has become a multilevel chessboard on which few policymakers can make the right move or even understand the interlinked developments.
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Rihanna's "Anti," which did have hit singles (including "Work") to drive sales, turned out to be a brittle, even confrontational album about compulsive lust and multilevel betrayal.
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LuLaRoe, the controversial multilevel marketing company that has faced a barrage of lawsuits over the past few years, is laying off all 167 employees at its California warehouse.
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In 2009, months ahead of licensing his name to a multilevel marketing business, the quasi-legal cousin of the pyramid scheme, called Trump Network, he bought up TrumpNetworkFraud.
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What they describe is a multilevel secret service under the overall command of the Islamic State's most senior Syrian operative, spokesman and propaganda chief, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
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Multilevel-marketing companies such as Herbalife—and Amway, Mary Kay, and Nu Skin—peddle their products to the public through networks of salespeople rather than through retail venders.
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Yup. Getting friends to buy product for her "multilevel marketing business," while covering the cost of the product herself so that she could look like a hotshot recruiter?
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I reached Fragonard's multilevel ocher building — a parfait of shop, museum and working perfumery — and stood outside to catch my breath after the circuitous trek from the church.
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In a typical multilevel marketing company, members have to keep buying the product to stay in the system, meaning those who earned $0 may have also lost money.
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It was part of the custom-built, multilevel stage for a new multimillion-dollar "kung fu musical" called "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise," which begins previews on June 210.
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This was my first time getting a sales pitch for a multilevel marketing company, but it wasn't the first time I had heard about this kind of recruitment tactic.
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His third public venture came in 2012, as chairman of LTS Nutraceuticals, a multilevel-marketing vitamin company that operated in a similar vein as companies like Amway and Herbalife.
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The multilevel center will use virtual reality, interactive screens, films, performances, conferences and a library, with the purpose of educating people about the wines, vineyards and terroir of Burgundy.
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"I've always been in some form of business," he said, dating back to experience in retail sector and in multilevel marketing programs as early as the age of 16.
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Although Bjarne Melgaard's The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, a multilevel solo exhibition at Red Bull Arts New York, opens today, the Norwegian artist has had an already eventful week.
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He peddled Trump University, a real estate sales seminar, and a multilevel vitamin marketing business called Trump Network as ways for average people to make money during difficult times.
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"Where we want to be with this is what Mary Kay has done, multilevel marketing companies," Mr. Hanover said, referring to the cosmetics distributor and its independent sales force.
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The 210,21990-square-foot space at the edge of Chinatown that once housed First National City Bank of New York is getting a new tenant: a multilevel food complex.
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Shares of Herbalife, USANA Health Sciences and Nu Skin Enterprises took a hit Monday on a report that China may be cracking down on so-called multilevel marketing companies.
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For the better part of the last few years, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has been embroiled in a war of words and money with Herbalife, a multilevel marketing company.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A portion of a multilevel luxury shopping center in Mexico City collapsed on Thursday, sending debris flying and kicking up clouds of gray dust, television images showed.
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JEMA RESTAURANT Joy Mangano, the home-shopping entrepreneur portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the film "Joy," is now a restaurateur, opening this multilevel restaurant with four dining and bar areas.
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The Trump defendants had similar arrangements with two other companies — the vitamin promotion multilevel company Trump Network, and The Trump Institute, which conducted real-estate training seminars, the suit says.
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The multilevel roof terrace, which can be lighted at night with flaming torches, includes an outdoor kitchen, a firepit, a bar, a jetted tub, a dragon fountain and a greenhouse.
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A nutritional supplement multilevel marketing company has been operating as an illegal pyramid scheme and will be forced to pay a $150 million settlement, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
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On top of the sales territories he managed for a global chemical company, he worked a side-gig coaching job at a multilevel marketing company for hours into the night.
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It is now, by far, the largest of the multilevel marketing companies here, with 22016 million distributors, more than all the others combined, according to the Ministry of Commerce's records.
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Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is well-known for his outspoken investments in companies like Valeant and Mondelez, as well his very public and controversial bet against multilevel nutrition company Herbalife.
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The most recent FTC action drilled down into organizations that tried to push fake products or multilevel marketing schemes, and those that sold real products but marketed them in illegal ways.
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It would go on to become one of the biggest battles Wall Street had ever seen — a fight to the finish with the multilevel marketing company Herbalife caught in the middle.
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Unlike traditional museums, which organize collections in separate rooms according to subject and century, the Quai Branly took an informal approach, with a multilevel open plan that crossed eras and oceans.
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Looking back further, a 2006 California Uniform Commercial Code — or UCC — record lists Deanne S. Brady of Chino, California, as a debtor to Utah-based skincare multilevel marketer Nu Skin Enterprises.
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While her husband, Mark, serves at the CEO, Stidham is by far the most recognizable figure associated with the controversial leggings multilevel marketing company, thanks to her frequent social-media output.
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The Byrne score, taped, is as wonderful as the choreography: Its overlapping dance rhythms and occasional use of celestial high notes are part of the same multilevel view of human potential.
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For more than a decade, scenes like this represented a financial salvation for Amway and other companies that use sales representatives to recruit others below them in what's called multilevel marketing.
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Electrical and mechanical light and sound installations span all four floors of The Hollows, a multilevel gallery housed in a brownstone in Williamsburg, for the five-night opening reception of Electrique.
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Tenants in the building, where studios start at $220,260 a month and one-bedrooms at $22,2000, will mingle with the general public, who also have access to these multilevel common areas.
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Netflix had a few slots on the sanctioned calendar but elected to rent out a 24,000-square-foot multilevel space in Beverly Hills to stage competing events, cheekily calling them FYSee.
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Workers are frustrated, the letter added, because it is difficult for two crew members to reach every car when they are assigned to multilevel trains that have eight to 2000 cars.
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Her husband, Dick DeVos, comes from an even wealthier family — his father was a founder of Amway, the multilevel marketing company — and he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Michigan in 2006.
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There's a spiraling expressway that looks like a Hot Wheels racetrack and a multilevel park not unlike something Bjarke Ingels would design, taking the seeker's challenge to a whole new level.
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Avon is a multilevel marketing company, or MLM, that relies on sellers to recruit other sellers, who then earn a variable cut of their recruits' sales, in addition to their own profits.
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Trump, after all, may have trouble distancing himself from DeVos's legacy: He announced his reelection bid at Orlando's Amway Center, named for the multilevel marketing company that has so enriched her family.
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The order for up to 999 multilevel passenger cars, including options, would be one of the largest contracts in years if most of the options are exercised, one of the sources said.
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The original Librairie des Puf occupied a far larger, multilevel space in the corner of Place de la Sorbonne, and had packed window displays and a bustling intellectual crowd from nearby universities.
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Multilevel-marketing companies are structured in such a way that a large base of distributors generally spend more than they make, while a small number on top reap most of the benefits.
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At the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, in a 16th-century palazzo, the garden's multilevel copper basin of concrete and mosaic with labyrinths of alabaster and Istrian stone feels both stark and strangely ancient.
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It all takes place in roughly one and a half seconds, and the camera stays on Reeves just long enough to catch the move and then follow him through the multilevel facility.
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CNBC has found dozens of examples where sellers for multilevel marketing, or MLM, companies, such as doTerra and Young Living, claim on Facebook that their products can prevent consumers from getting coronavirus.
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He wanted to be an academic, but for a child who felt out of control, control of others may have been appealing, and he became interested in the science behind multilevel marketing.
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Off the Menu TETSU Masayoshi Takayama, known to sushi aficionados simply as Masa, is finally opening his multilevel home-cooking restaurant devoted to the comfort food he says he likes to eat.
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Her husband's father, Richard Sr., co-founder of the multilevel marketing company Amway, was an active member of the Christian Reformed Church that preached a mix of social conservatism and self-reliance.
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Whoever downloads an app on their phone, signs a hiring contract, or invests in a multilevel marketing company backed by a wealthy television personality is presented with terms the company came up with.
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To kick things off, next month the company plans to open a new multilevel flagship-style store in Beijing, which will be its largest store globally besides the so-called Starbucks Reserve Roasteries.
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Beautycounter, a multilevel marketing beauty company that has banned 1,100 ingredients in its products and has been a visible and vocal voice in the clean beauty movement, has also supported the bill publicly.
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Some people are in them to reach 10,000 followers, but I'm not doing that — if I wanted to build a lot of followers, I could join a "loop," which is like multilevel marketing.
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YouGov's recent success was based on rolling questionnaires administered daily to 7,000 people from a 50,000-strong online panel, with the results combined using advanced number-crunching known as "multilevel regression and post-stratification".
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The multilevel pavilion will house an additional 9,840 square feet of gallery space, a prominent "stair tower," new space for the institution's library, and a sculpture garden and roof deck on its third floor.
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You'll find a lovely version of the English classic at the Imperial, an alluring new multilevel restaurant from Bill Thomas, co-owner of the nearby Jack Rose Dining Saloon, and executive chef Russell Jones.
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Over the past year or so, a bunch of bloggers and Instagrammers, no matter what they write about, keep trying to sell their followers makeup and skincare through a multilevel marketing company called Beautycounter.
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On last night's Last Week Tonight, Oliver explained that companies like Herbalife Nutrition and Mary Kay work on a multilevel marketing basis – which means their business model is basically a barely-legal pyramid scheme.
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But it is hard to know if all these success stories are true given the incentive to recruit and the data that shows how hard it is to make money in multilevel marketing companies.
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If those last names sound familiar, it's because they are also the founders of Rodan + Fields, the popular (and sometimes infamous) billion-dollar multilevel marketing beauty brand likely lurking all over your Facebook feed.
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"There are cases in which young Koreans including students are jumping in to make quick money and virtual currencies are used in illegal activities like drug dealing or multilevel marketing for frauds," he said.
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I am certain that I will be able to contribute a great deal to your organization, especially by optimizing your relationships with the media, employing the multilevel skills I have developed over the years.
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"Kenny Troutt has always run his WinStar Farm as a business," he said of the owner of WinStar who made his fortune from a long-distance phone company that used a multilevel marketing approach.
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A winding dirt road (requiring a four-wheel drive during the rainy season) leads to the multilevel, 9,100-square-foot home, which was built in 2010 and offers panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.
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Many women get their start with multilevel marketing companies, especially for skincare and makeup, that offer flexible, at-home work, but often little by means of profit, especially when the potential market lacks disposable income.
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The BYP100 recently released its Agenda to Build Black Futures, a multilevel project addressing issues of economic justice and racial equality in a campaign for structural change to improve the lives of every black American.
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While Miss Fresh goes after consumers in China's megacities, the new project lures small-town consumers with a multilevel revenue-sharing scheme: Users get cash rewards when they get other people to use the app.
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It's not Los Espookys' only jab at the state of the world today — you'll also see cracks about clueless American ambassadors and predatory multilevel marketing schemes — but the series isn't overtly political or overly dramatic.
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The beauty brand Anastasia Beverly Hills says it will "not be continuing" to collaborate with multilevel marketing company Rodan + Fields after a ton of fans slammed ABH for partnering with a company they called predatory.
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Fulton Center, a multilevel hub in Lower Manhattan that ties together more than a half-dozen subway lines, was redesigned in 2700 as a $295 billion transit and retail complex lit by a domed skylight.
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Note also the more recent connection between Republican politics and "multilevel marketing" operations like Amway (Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is the wife of Amway's former president and the daughter-in-law of its co-founder); and how easily some of these marketing schemes shade into the promotion of dubious miracle cures (Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, with "glyconutrients"; Mike Huckabee shilling for a "solution kit" to "reverse" diabetes; Trump himself taking on a short-lived nutritional-supplements multilevel marketing scheme in 2009).
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"Any solutions to health disparities are going to really require addressing it from a multilevel point of view," says Stinson, noting this is a shift in the way these problems have been tackled in the past.
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Making moneyAccording to data from the Direct Sellers Association, multilevel marketing companies brought in an estimated $34.9 billion in revenue in the US in 2017, thanks to the more than 18 million people selling their products.
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JING FONG In about two months, this giant multilevel dim sum palace on Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, which accommodates more than 299 people, will open an Upper West Side branch in the former Planet Sushi space.
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In an email to Dr. Simpkins last year, Dr. Breckenridge sent him a study on the Mediterranean Diet and suggested that they use a multilevel marketing company to help them sell a product of their own.
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She opened the 35-room, multilevel property in October 2015, providing a tasteful and contemporary place to sleep in an otherwise Old World city with ancient pagodas and colorful lanterns floating in the Thu Bon River.
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While there have been countless polls in the run-up to the election, YouGov's "Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification model" is seen as the most meaningful, offering a prediction of seats, rather than just vote share.
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Webb County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Federico Garza believes Ortiz did try to commit suicide by cop when he was eventually found hiding in the back of a pickup truck inside the multilevel parking lot of a hotel.
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The polling organisation said the model, developed by its data science team and London School of Economics Professor Ben Lauderdale, employed a technique called multilevel regression and post-stratification analysis to estimate the result in individual constituencies.
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As one finalist candidate revealed in an excellent exposé series on the company titled "All Dressed Up for Mars and Nowhere to Go," Mars One's financial reality looked like a multilevel marketing scheme — not a scientific expedition.
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Isenberg sees similar approaches in the Embarcadero Center (a multilevel commercial complex, monolithic at first but customized through collaboration with its tenants) and the Crown Zellerbach Building (the city's first International Style tower, with a garden below).
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"There have been multilevel efforts by the government and government institutions to restrict and repress the opposition party, civil society and the media," said Naly Pilorge, deputy director of advocacy at Licadho, a Cambodian human rights group.
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We took a turn into the multilevel Pei Ho street market, a sobering, indoor scene of fresh produce, live chickens, quivering pig carcasses, slithering eels in Styrofoam crates and nearly anything else you could think to eat.
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Its custody solution will include vaulted "cold storage," which involves taking the cryptocurrency offline, and multilevel physical and cyber controls, among other security protocols that have been created leveraging Fidelity's security principles from other parts of the business.
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Using a method called "multilevel regression and post-stratification", the relationships between demography and vote choices can be used to project state-level election results—and to estimate what might have happened in the past under different rules.
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Probes by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office failed to find sufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing within Herbalife, a multilevel marketing company that focuses on nutritional supplements, sources told the newspaper, which first reported it late Friday.
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Rudolph's Bond Centre in Hong Kong, now known as the Lippo Centre, makes use of prefab glass panels rather than concrete expanses, but its multilevel lobby breaks the towers' mass into human-scale zones for meeting and mingling.
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The two of us were standing in a multilevel 48,000-square-foot building off the Saw Mill River Parkway on the outskirts of the village of Bedford Hills, the Westchester suburb where Mr. Lauren owns a substantial estate.
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In her covert attempt to tear down a multilevel marketing scheme from the inside, Krystal Scruggs (Kirsten Dunst) has been swallowed up in Founders American Merchandise (otherwise known as FAM), the same organization that left her nearly destitute.
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But by the time Willis, a 22018-year-old mother of two from Kenosha, Wisconsin, finally quit the multilevel marketing company, or MLM, in 22019, she said she had around $50,000 in credit card debt from her business.
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For his next year's class he carried over the previous year's project, and this time had the students calculate what kind of structure a multilevel urban farm would need and how many people you could feed that way.
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Because this requires the animals to keep track of individuals in both their own and other groups, the assumption has long been that multilevel societies should only exist in species with the intelligence to cope with this complexity.
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The Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles is a multilevel marvel, a mashup of resort and shopping mall aesthetics that combines a massive AMC movie theater, an Italian marketplace called Eataly, and dozens of high-end retail stores.
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But her modernist approach this time includes a faceless, multilevel set, drained of color but containing a water cooler next to which sits the Porter (an ever-deadpan Michael Hodgson), who now and then pushes a carpet sweeper around.
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The set (by Brian Prather) subtly suggests as much with its multilevel framework of unfinished plywood and pale lengths of suspended cloth, lit (by Jamie Roderick) with washes of color that make the stage into a dreamscape for transformation.
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Mr. Biden has also benefited from the fact that Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to be looking for a leader with solid political experience, according to a multilevel analysis of voter preferences published this month by Monmouth.
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By using a statistical technique called multilevel regression and post stratification, which is used to estimate public opinion on the state level, the analysis found that majorities across the country support allowing transgender people to serve in the military.
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Neora, formerly called Nerium, sells "anti-aging" face creams and supplements through multilevel marketing, similar to Mary Kay or Amway, in which people sell products to their friends and family members and can earn money for recruiting new vendors.
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Her father-in-law, Richard DeVos Sr., the co-founder of Amway, a company built on "multilevel marketing" or what critics call pyramid selling, has been funding groups and causes on the economic and religious right since the 1970s.
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"Super Nintendo World will be comprised of expansive and multilevel environments filled with unprecedented, state-of-the-art rides, interactive areas, shops and restaurants, all featuring Nintendo's most popular characters and games," Universal Studios Japan, said in a press release.
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They even come with foam ear tips that can block out up to 37 decibels of outside noise, making them great for coffee shop workers who want to tune out the multilevel marketing pitch going on at the table next door.
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Multilevel marketing is the sales technique used by companies like Herbalife or Amway, in which the company itself sells large quantities of a good to independent marketers to sell in turn to others, either for further resale or for consumption.
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Until this week, I'd never thought about how many twisting flights of stairs you climb in Fallout 4, nor how disorienting that might feel in VR. One of the game's earliest pitched battles takes place on a giant, multilevel catwalk.
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The plot was simple: Cobra, the ruthless terrorist organization headed by a multilevel marketer named Cobra Commander, is in dire financial straits following a G.I. Joe raid on the secret vault that hid Cobra's well-capitalized assets: artwork and stolen gold.
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ET. TSA spokeswoman Jenny Burke identified the man as an off-duty TSA officer, and said he fell from one of the multilevel hotel's balconies, which overlooks an area where people line up for one of the airport's security checkpoints.
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The FTC suggests asking these basic questions before forking over a dime to a multilevel marketing program: If you think you are the victim of a pyramid scheme, Dorris says your first step should be reporting it to law enforcement.
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The network has received financial support from the Charles Koch Foundation, the Charles Koch Institute, and the DeVos family, whose fortune came from the Amway multilevel marketing company and whose most prominent member is US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
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It integrated lighting, vibrant colors, acoustical fabrics, chairs molded like tulip petals, sofas and desks with chrome legs, collegially oval meeting tables, and futuristic multilevel interiors, more architectural than decorative, with open-riser staircases that seemed to float in the air.
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The university, Schneiderman has charged, was a "bait and switch," a classic multilevel marketing scheme: People are told that the real benefits they want are only available if they keep paying, essentially urging them to throw good money after bad.
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"The multilevel security approach used at O'Hare and Midway Airports has proven effective in stopping and preventing crime while creating a structure that allows for all our law enforcement officials to collaborate easily and effectively," department spokesman Owen Kilmer said in a statement.
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More than 18 million Americans are now involved in some kind of direct sales or multilevel marketing scheme, shelling out hundreds of dollars on vitamins or juicers or leggings, then frantically attempting to recoup the money by flogging them to friends and neighbors.
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The state accommodates the needs of all those practical little towns with a multilevel delegate selection process: a thousand-plus precincts hold caucuses to furnish delegates to 99 county conventions, and on up the chain, to the district, state and national conventions.
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"Our first MRP model projection for the 2019 election suggests that this time round the Conservatives are set for a majority," said Anthony Wells, director of political and social research at YouGov, referring to its Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification (MRP) model.
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An affidavit prepared by an FBI agent that was filed in support of the arrest warrant said Nxivm (pronounced NEX-ium) was based in upstate New York and operated like a multilevel marketing scheme, pushing members to take classes that cost as much as $5,000.
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"We will move forward with the reform of stock and bond markets and increase the level of rule of law in their development, promote the sound development of the multilevel capital market, and ensure that the proportion of direct financing is increased," Li said.
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The three companies named were ACN Opportunity, a multilevel marketing company that provides telecommunications; The Trump Network, which sold an array of diet supplements and multivitamins; and The Trump Institute, a live-seminar program that purported to sell Trump's "secrets to success," according the lawsuit.
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The Public has announced a partnership with the Donmar Warehouse, a highly regarded nonprofit in London, and is talking about what Mr. Eustis calls a possible "multilevel collaboration" with the National Theater in London, which is a pioneer in presenting stage productions on cinema screens.
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Selling fraudulent securities to your friends has to be rare, but something a little like this is pretty common in this country: You get involved in a pyramid marketing scheme (the outfit prefers the term "multilevel" marketing), and you sell all your friends sales kits.
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Dunst plays Krystal Stubbs, a lower-middle-class wife and mother who learns, after an unlikely tragedy, that she's in a substantial amount of debt to FAM, a multilevel marketing organization that amounts to the very real company Amway with the serial numbers filed off.
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"I think most of the more established, sophisticated multilevel marketing companies are not going to be putting out claims on their websites that their products have any sort of benefit for coronavirus — I think they know that would be crossing a line," she said.
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His Conservative Party could win 22017 seats out of 28, up from 317 in the 2017 general election and the best result for the party since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 victory, according to the YouGov model, called Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification - or 'MRP' for short.
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The Federal Trade Commission, which regulates multilevel marketing programs, offers three telltale signs of an illegal pyramid scheme: While there are many legitimate ways to make a living while working from your home, that is also a common sales pitch for illegal pyramid schemes.
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Nintendo shared some concept art alongside this announcement of its first target opening date, and the layout looks pretty ambitious, including a few large castle structures and a multilevel, platform-style building that features a lot of familiar terrain for fans of the Mario series of games.
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Trump honed his pitch during his own career in multilevel marketing, as a promoter of the short-lived Trump Network, which peddled "cutting-edge health and wellness formulas," in Trump's words, and as a spokesman for the telecom outfit ACN, which has settled state fraud charges.
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Coogee Pavilion, located right on the beach a few miles outside the center of town, is a multilevel, family-friendly destination with a good seafood and pizza selection, a spacious rooftop bar, and entertaining novelty games appropriate for all ages (giant magnetic wall-mounted Scrabble, anyone?).
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There is still some drama left in the theatrical, multilevel dining room; the parachute chandeliers that show off how far away the ceilings are; and the plants from the garden that press their leaves up against the back door as if they wanted to come inside.
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" About a month after the battle, Icahn revealed in a filing a huge stake in Herbalife, effectively taking the other side of the short, which Ackman defended for months, saying the stock would go to zero and accusing the multilevel marketing company of being a "pyramid scheme.
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Showtime's trenchant dark comedy "On Becoming a God in Central Florida," set in the early 1990s, charts the exploits of Kirsten Dunst's character as she desperately attempts to prevent her life from being swallowed whole after she's caught in the web of a multilevel-marketing scheme.
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Except for a larger selection of seafood platters and a fried chicken that's served daily instead of weekly, the 300-seat version of the Ribbon in Times Square, in the multilevel sprawl that once housed Guy Fieri's restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, has virtually the same menu.
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It's unsurprising that she doesn't want to forgive the student loan debts of those defrauded by for-profit colleges considering that she got her net worth of more than $1 billion from her husband's company, the multilevel marketing giant Amway, which is often described as a cult.
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INGRAHAM: This is what Karl Rove, I think with your experience in the Bush administration, they&aposre playing, I hate the multilevel chess reference, but he does have other concerns other than just what&aposs happening in the Mueller investigation, what the New York Times is going to publish.
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She's Krystal Stubbs, a young mother working a minimum wage job in a dingy water park near Orlando, surrounded by the hucksters and victims of the local cultlike multilevel marketing (MLM) pyramid scheme, FAM (which stands for Founders American Merchandising and is a parody of the real-life company Amway).
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Served in conical tumblers, rife with cinnamon and cardamom, the tea felt like a hug for the insides and restored us to the degree that we were able to make a decision about bridesmaids outfits, which my sister-in-law gamely modeled at the multilevel Indian clothing superstore Pratap Sons.
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If he wins a seat, he hopes to convince the other directors, including Kenneth Chenault, the chief executive of American Express, and Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, that the company should be organized from its current multilevel "matrix" structure to three clear global business units to improve accountability.
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However, according to Robert FitzPatrick, president of Pyramid Scheme Alert, who has consulted on The Dream podcast and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's episode on multilevel marketing, using the novel coronavirus as a recruitment strategy wouldn't be the first time MLMs have seized upon a crisis or trend to recruit new members.
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Carmen Quagliata, the executive chef since 2007, has a penchant for elevated comfort food that befits the restaurant's polished good vibes, and his cooking gets a grand showcase in the new multilevel space, spiffed up with dramatically lit booths, cozy nooks, and a gorgeous, towering front bar in the model of Gramercy Tavern.
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LuLaRoe, the multilevel marketing company known for its colorful patterned leggings, is apparently in dire financial straits: According to a new lawsuit, it's drowning in debt and its founders are using a network of shell properties to shield assets — including millions of dollars' worth of cars, properties, and private planes — from its creditors.
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There were dungeons aplenty — deep, multilevel labyrinths outfitted with false doors and booby traps and elaborate menageries of monsters: ghouls, gorgons, hydras, mummies, minotaurs, basilisks, gnomes, orcs, chimeras, hobgoblins, centaurs (which could "attack twice, once as a man and once as a medium horse") and griffons ("the most prized of steeds ... fond of horse flesh above all other foods").
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Customers lined up on Queen Street West by the dozens on a freezing opening day, and the store—a multilevel space with sleek black and gold branding—remains bustling now, according to former employees; one former worker said a manager told him the place raked in more than $100,000 on the final weekend of last year's Caribana festival.
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The proposed building will require billions of dollars to build and includes an expensive and energy-efficient facade rarely seen in the United States, a public concourse, plush tenant amenities — a lap pool, yoga room and multilevel running track — and the city's tallest observatory, where visitors would be able to dive down a transparent, 60-foot corkscrew slide.
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The multilevel layout and the CAC's odd, Escheresque floor plan lend themselves to an interpretation of the exhibition as a walk through Ethridge's psyche: the wide-open ground floor is dominated by more polished works, glossy and accessible; the upper floors feature sculptural elements interspersed with domestic imagery, as the architecture fragments into a sequence of intimate, telescoping galleries.
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More formally, one tool to enforce this was redlining, the "systematic multisector, multilevel-of-government exclusion of African Americans, not just from the ability to buy a home but the crucial ability to accumulate wealth," said Jason Purnell, a professor of public health at Washington University in St. Louis and the director of For the Sake of All, a health equity research initiative.
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The next afternoon, Philippe Guelton, CEO of SheKnows Media, presented a video about the "great value" of Herbalife, the multilevel marketing company that just reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission wherein the firm was told to "pay $200 million back to people who were taken in by what the FTC alleges were misleading moneymaking claims," and which had sponsored the BlogHer lunch.
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COSTS $11,287 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Weichert, Realtors ____ 220 Black Rock Turnpike, Redding 2799 WEEKS on the market $2000,22 list price 25% BELOW list price SIZE 643 bedrooms, 264½ baths DETAILS A 213-year-old house with a living room and dining room with back-to-back fireplaces, a master suite with a vaulted ceiling, a multilevel deck and a heated two-story barn.
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Tasked across three and a half hours with playing rulers and lovers, not to mention showing outsize emotions — from rabid lust to poleaxing grief — the pair career from the intimate to the epic and back, helped by a multilevel set from Hildegard Bechtler: One minute, we're in an Egypt resembling an elaborate boudoir, the next we're plunged into battle as a submarine belonging to the Roman warrior Pompey spirals into view.
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COSTS $9,468 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices River Towns Real Estate ____ 101 Highland Avenue, Patchogue 12 WEEKS on the market $289,999 list price LESS THAN 13% above list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS A 57-year-old, vinyl-sided, single-story house with a combined living and dining room, an eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, a multilevel deck and a front porch.
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On the Market This week's properties include a six-bedroom in Port Washington, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Franklin, N.J. 24 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties: In Port Washington, N.Y., a six-bedroom, three-full-and-two-half-bath, 4,500-square-foot multilevel house, with rosewood and maple floors, a master bedroom with an expansive en suite bath, a balcony and a wraparound deck.
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The botched project was another in a line of art restoration projects gone bad, such as the 2012 defacing of a century-old "Ecce Homo" fresco of Jesus with a crown of thorns that was altered beyond recognition in Spain, leaving the statue with a half-beard and, some say, a monkeylike appearance; and the 2016 restoration of a landmark Spanish castle that made it more closely resemble a multilevel parking garage.
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Even though very few state polls have been conducted on views of the A.H.C.A., we are able to estimate views on the bill in each state using a statistical method called M.R.P. (multilevel regression and poststratification) and eight national polls that the Kaiser Family Foundation, YouGov and Public Policy Polling shared with us on people's views on the A.H.C.A. While no polling system is infallible, our M.R.P. model combines respondents' demographic characteristics, their state and their views of the A.H.C.A. to estimate the probability that a voter of a certain age, race and gender, and in a state with certain characteristics, would support the proposal.
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