He suckered the people and he suckered the politicians until he got what he wanted, and then he went back on pretty much everything he promised.
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He suckered investors out of around $22 million, court records show.
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First, it ensures that we don't get suckered into prolonging the fight.
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President Trump's instincts are right, and he is right to feel suckered.
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All of which is to say, Americans are being played. Suckered. Hustled.
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However, we are cautious not to get suckered into the current rally.
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I can't believe I'm being suckered into going to the International Mr. Leather competition.
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After winning by warning voters they were being suckered, he's made them all suckers.
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Cities will continue to be suckered in by the false promise of the hyperloop.
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His team suggests the president was suckered into making a bad call by Mr McConnell.
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Each time, we end up amazed at how we were suckered by yet another obvious illusion.
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Narrator: And you're not the only one getting suckered into buying a marked-up giant Toblerone.
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How did women get suckered into spending literally thousands of hard-earned dollars on makeup and skincare?
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It's a satirical film about how people can get suckered into telling something less than the truth.
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And this isn't the first time news outlets have been suckered by "news" from this Twitter account.
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Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Shares Investments, thinks investors are getting suckered into buying bank stocks yet again.
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He suckered me into working for him for an entire year, always promising to raise my salary.
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"I felt sick election night, realizing I'd been suckered into a fall sense of complacency," she said.
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If they will fall for crude editing, then they have no chance to avoid being suckered by deepfakes.
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Little wonder that Fleabag, who jerks off to an Obama speech about democracy, is suckered by the priest.
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Instead, he's suckered into a conciliatory lunch, which turns out to be Bibby's room temperature doggy bag scraps.
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History repeats itself, and it's high time to make sure you're not suckered by the next bear market.
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Karla is married with one child, and said she got "suckered" into signing up with LuLaRoe in May 2016.
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He'd been suckered by the promised ease of "Drive-Thru" and ended up arriving ten minutes late for pickup.
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"I was one of many people who was suckered into that, 'at least their intentions were good,'" Speck said.
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I got suckered in after the student deal, and it used to be a huge help on my subway commute.
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I never spend this much at Starbucks, but they have a promotion going on and I totally get suckered in.
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One difference here is that it's the poor white settlers who are getting suckered out of the land they occupy.
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Those claims are ridiculous and suckered in readers desperate to have their assumptions about wrongdoing by Trump administration officials confirmed.
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What was announced was positive for European credit, however we are cautious not to get suckered into the current rally.
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In the first, Booker is suckered into a "gotcha" moment by a news anchor, but he recovers, and ends by
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The Eagles weren't busting coverages all day, but they made several mistakes and were easily suckered into the Vikings' traps.
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When going mano a mano — or tentacle to tentacle — one octopus might whip out its suckered arm to flail at another.
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This behaviour also likely assists in wearing out the octopus's reflex responses that make the suckered arms so dangerous to swallow.
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The second line is at least a little more interesting, if only because the left has somehow been suckered into it.
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People talk about how they were suckered in, why they trusted him, why he seemed like he could be a visionary.
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But when attacked by a dolphin, these suckered arms also help octopuses to defend themselves by latching onto the dolphin's smooth skin.
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Publications have been suckered into tweaking their content and their business models to try to live off the traffic Facebook sends them.
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There aren't many good ways to get suckered — but in this sleek and wide-ranging series, there aren't many bad ways, either.
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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has urged consumers not to get suckered into paying exorbitant reseller prices on eBay and Craigslist.
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Wozniak also said he was "suckered in" by Tesla's promise that it would offer a fully self-driving version of its Autopilot system.
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This ad presumes that they can think for themselves, and that they would be able to be suckered in by something this despicable.
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Here are a few albums that suckered us in with the enchanting allure of their covers, only to break our hearts upon listening.
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You can take your settlement money — as the people who signed up for the fraudulent Trump University did — but you still got suckered.
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"People talk about how they were suckered in, why they trusted [McFarland], why he seemed like he could be a visionary," Wilkinson writes.
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Each song presents supposedly ordinary people who've gotten suckered in by the imagined normative paradise American archetypes live in and then get burned.
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They may, however, be tempted by a risky proposition, so try to talk it through with them before they get sucked in or suckered.
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The reason why we were reluctant to tip Cruz as the likely winner, however, was because we were all suckered by The Donald's hype.
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Or you don't like having them in your bed because they're like diapered squids suckered onto you with their squid beaks and flailing tentacles.
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The investors "realized at that point they had been suckered," said Ms. Moore, who had invested $409,000, which she described as her life savings.
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"The stock pickers, which is about half of that crowd, kind of suckered investors into following a benchmark that makes no sense," he added.
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America must deal more bilaterally on trade and not be suckered into global agreements because we are not bargaining from strength or equal footing.
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Go ahead and sign up for your free trial, but know that doing so may get you suckered in to a lifetime of Prime addiction.
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Although I didn't part with any of my own money—and hope other writers weren't suckered—far more valuable commodities were stolen: time and effort.
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Last fall we premiered "Temple," suckered in by its piano-plinkety feel-good vibes and woo-hoos, even as James mulls over the tough stuff.
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"Rod got suckered by the president in writing the memo," said Philip B. Heymann, a former Justice Department official and one of Mr. Rosenstein's mentors.
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O'Toole isn't unsympathetic to those who voted in favor of Brexit, but makes abundantly clear that he believes they were suckered into a raw deal.
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People had a very postmodern view of her performance that if you were shocked by it, you were being suckered into being shocked by it.
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I blame Muji for selling a junky product, but I blame myself even more for being suckered by something that looks like the HomePod of humidifiers.
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A Democratic lawmaker is advising his colleagues on how to not get suckered by fake Twitter accounts, which happened to some top Democrats on Tuesday. Rep.
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Song dynasty thinkers had suckered everyone into thinking that Confucius was uptight, when in the Analects he's actually making self-deprecatory jokes and kidding his disciples.
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Promises had given way to despair, and he was humbled by the belief that he and others were suckered into giving up their only true assets.
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Players get suckered into dubious investments, are ripped off by unscrupulous advisers, give money to friends and family, or simply spend far more than they save.
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Life is a mystery but you can be assured that Sakic will get suckered by someone that had fewer than 1,63 points in their NHL playing career.
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Traders haven't been suckered by the GOP's scoring shenanigans, they know perfectly well that the bill will add over a hundred billion a year in new borrowing.
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Fodeman's mother was suckered out of $900 by a caller who said he was her handyman, and then claimed he had been arrested and needed bail money.
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After all, the buyer hasn't simply been suckered into a lame exterior appearance package, he or she has signed on the line for a serious American performance coupe.
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Hope you had a blessed Memorial Day weekend with your families," Johnson continued, joking in conclusion, "And got suckered into watching THE INCREDIBLES before bedtime for the 57th time.
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Running for office, Trump routinely cast the US as being suckered into protecting and funding the rest of the world, often to the detriment of American workers and industries.
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He got involved with TNA on the creative side and, because he has money and name recognition, got suckered into giving money to make up for TNA's budget shortfall.
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Instead, the show bubbles over with goofy in-jokes about product placement, bad money management, and the highly specific Hollywood danger of getting suckered by one's scheming influencer spouse.
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Embarrassingly, I got suckered into opening photos of this man thrice(!), as have many others, via assorted prank texts circulating and promising breaking information about the COVID-19 crisis.
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The various pills, oils (and coffees) out on the market can get expensive, and a lot of the claims out there need regular Snopes checks to protect consumers from getting suckered.
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Neither does smugness make us any less likely to be suckered, and in fact, it can make us more open to humbug, so long as we can sneer at it later.
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It's possible here that I was being suckered — being played by the game's most formidable player — but in that moment I knew how it felt to be let inside the Sandlerverse.
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But for this very reason, many are deeply skeptical of Kim's motives, with hawkish North Korea watchers believing the United States is being suckered into lifting sanctions in exchange for nothing.
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"You can think of yourself as intervening not really to stop the poster, but intervening on behalf of your friends who are seeing this and may get suckered by it," he said.
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The U.S. got suckered by a big ideas guy who played to our collective athletic vanity and desire to compete with the best, despite all available evidence that we are nowhere close.
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And a few progressives cautioned against making too much of the summit's inadequacy, arguing, in part, that it was better for Trump to get suckered and claim victory than to lash out.
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And then I found myself moderately surprised that I'd been surprised about this — somehow suckered into believing for a minute that there was a shred of merit to this dog-and-pony show.
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This might sound obvious, but you would be surprised how many people get suckered in by a flashy device, only to discover that the picture quality is grainy and the sound is tinny.
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Regardless, our summer reading lists now include books of all genres, many of them not in paperback, meaning we get suckered into buying hardcover or e-books that won't necessarily play well with sand.
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And don't be suckered in by a brand's claims that a bar contains a trendy "superfood," especially if it's unclear on the label exactly how much of a certain ingredient is in the product.
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That fact didn't count, in the end, but it is good to know that the majority of Americans were not suckered by a con man: the electorate actually opted to live in Clinton's world.
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In particular, they warn of getting suckered in by valuations in foreign markets: We believe the pullback in both tech and the overall market was healthy and served to correct some overly optimistic sentiment conditions.
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Jared, it turns out, was just one of hundreds of US military service members and veterans suckered by a massive wave of catfishing scams launched from South Carolina correctional facilities over the past few years.
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After World War IV, a scavenger (Don Johnson) wanders the wasteland with his telepathic dog (voiced by Tim McIntire), dodging androids and mutants, until he's suckered into a community built under the ruins of Topeka, Kansas.
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As opposed to encouraging a world in which everyone is suckered into reading something with a headline optimized by a social media strategist armed with nothing more than "best practices" for conning you into a click.
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"The industry is all about marketing and people are being suckered into thinking there are actual health benefits," said Josh Bloom, senior director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the American Council on Science and Health.
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Chad Perkins says he got suckered into paying for a premium service that would allow him to view others who "liked" his profile ... but instead, noticed most, if not all, accounts that liked him were inactive.
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In the first scene of the beautifully filmed drama, Star (newcomer Sasha Lane) is picking out food that she hopes is still edible from a dumpster with the two kids she's been suckered into taking care of.
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Now it looks like he won't leave the Embassy, and the outgoing administration will likely be accused of being suckered – believing an NGO – WikiLeaks – that it has only recently portrayed as a willing agent of Vladimir Putin.
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Historically, the rube in sandals with a camera around his neck was a mark, someone gullible enough to buy a watch from a thief's open trench coat or get suckered into a game of three-card monte.
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One implication of these revelations is that Trump supporters who imagine that they've found a straight-talking champion who will drain the swamp while using his business acumen to make America great again have been suckered, bigly.
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When they lost money on a bad real estate deal that a friend who turned out to be a con artist suckered them into, it triggered a federal investigation, culminating in Clinton's impeachment for completely unrelated conduct.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are stepping down as senior royals How Trump got suckered by Iran and North Korea La-Z-Boy and the American dream Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
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"The U.S. shouldn't get suckered into a race to the bottom with a bunch of no-tax, resort-lined islands to please the tax avoidance industry and their lobbyists," said Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member.
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The "Wild 'n Out" star claims in a new suit ... Archive Entertainment's Bobby Patterson suckered him into signing a contract in December 2013 with promises of record deals, movie and TV roles, and his own line of merchandise.
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"Clinton has no intention of being suckered into a political disaster by advocating a carbon tax," said Paul Bledsoe, a political consultant who worked for the Senate Finance Committee's Democrats when the House passed its tax in 1993.
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Mr. von Hoffman also wrote "Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies," (2004), and "Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky" (2010), based on his recollections of his years working as a community organizer with Mr. Alinsky.
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I got suckered into what was nothing more than another effort to divert attention from the major kerfuffle about his comments on Charlottesville, Va. All in all it was a great speech, and kudos to the writer(s).
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After its cancellation, the idea of "Twin Peaks" preyed on network executives' minds, if only to avoid being suckered in by shows that burned brightly for a short time but lacked the wherewithal to survive beyond that initial spark.
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Fire and Fury was too tough, our allies weren&apost behind us, China wouldn&apost help us, remember the meeting got suckered into North Korean Olympic propaganda and they said, Kim Jong-un&aposs sister was a better diplomat than Ivanka.
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Some people swear by it—they like to say that it's about "returning to human nature," to a time before the image of Western marriage came along and suckered us all into believing in true love and De Beers diamonds.
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Obviously, we here at MUNCHIES cared mostly about the booze, and here are some of the interesting results to better help you navigate the aisles of your convenience grocery store to avoid getting suckered into that last-minute six-pack.
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If only to appease the adults suckered into watching garishly animated early-morning television with their drooling kids, children's TV shows have always been littered with jokes and pop culture curios that fly over the heads of their target demographic.
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By the time we reached a short section of road that rises steeply—aptly named "The Struggle"—each lift of a leg was immediately suckered back down again by gravity, and my pack was starting to rub against the edges of my breasts.
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Josh Berger, a resident of Queens, NY, feels he got suckered into buying diet ice cream by Halo Top, the low-calorie pint line whose popularity has seemingly skyrocketed in recent years, when he thought he was buying the full-fat stuff.
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Great rim protectors have to learn when to go for the big play and when to settle for a well-contested shot, and one of Embiid's worst habits on defense doing too much of the former and getting suckered away from the basket.
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Cobb was recently suckered by Jeff Jetton, a restaurant owner and as Business Insider described him, an "unabashed troll," into an inappropriate email exchange when Jetton accused him of being a "monster" and "that horrid clown from the Stephen King novel" for representing the President.
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" Finally, and staying dark, you should listen to this episode of "Reveal," based on Aaron Glantz's book "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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Yo, Danielle, Patrick, and Austin, Like Patrick, I got suckered by the tribal politics of the game's present, a lot more than the threads that connected it to the past—as in, our world, or at least some 50 or so years from today.
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It does a much better job of showing how people got suckered in, whether as employees of Fyre (which was also developing a talent-booking app at the time the festival was being planned), as partners or friends of McFarland's, or as potential attendees.
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" While men may have done this out of libidinous self-interest, Hirshman implies that women were suckered into it by a pathetic sense of self-preservation — "not wanting to be cast as man-hating prudes by sexy liberal male writers and lawyers, potential mates after all.
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Kattar would follow Moicano around the cage and then Moicano would stop and start checking Kattar's hands, showing him feinted jabs and straights, and then as Moicano threw a kick from this close range you could almost see in Kattar's face the disappointment that he had been suckered once again.
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It's not hard to surmise why the trackers are so widespread—users are easily suckered into downloading apps, especially free ones, and including trackers turns every user's data into a monetizable commodity—and the ubiquity of the tracking software only underscores how widespread spying on users is in the digital era.
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Sharing each other's food, and then devouring what's left on their publicist's plate too, Sunflower Bean insist they're as intrigued and inspired by the old (Kubrick, Vonnegut, Van Gogh), as suckered in by the new (Tim & Eric, while the trashiness of TLC reality show Extreme Cheapskates is a guilty pleasure).
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They say that investing in the Garfield Arms makes the Kushners getting suckered into buying that white elephant on Fifth Avenue—the one Henry Geldzahler said looks like the box the Seagram Building came in—seem like getting in on the Amazon I.P.O. Donald Trump : Stan denies that very strongly.
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I've bought small Etsy purchases ($20 or under) that upon arrival I realized I could live without, been suckered into monthly donating to 83 candidates, bought classroom supplies or food for students before I quit teaching public school, owed an ER $3K because I wasn't low income enough for Obamacare.
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In a paper titled "Democratic Civility and the Dangers of Niceness," the political scientist Ian Ward contends that "an ethic of generalized niceness" can actually be, in many circumstances, "a means by which citizens conform to the requirements of unjust social arrangements" — we've been suckered, yet "niceness" forbids us to do anything about it.
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Being the nerd is better achieved if you are directing your time to single-mindedly learning a set of skills, rather than being suckered into grazing within walled garden content farms like Facebook where mass market entertainment, co-mingled with advertising, is the ceaselessly refreshed algorithmic dish of the day, all the better to keep a passively engaged user-base clicking.
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Schwarzman's Blackstone and its subsidiaries swept up legions of such properties at foreclosure, thereby transferring billions of dollars of residents' equity to Blackstone, as the journalist Aaron Glantz demonstrates with macroeconomic rigor and novelistic intimacy in Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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The bible spells out the allure of a false god in Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, warning them not to be suckered by the Antichrist: The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
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Conversely, the president's new-found enthusiasm for bilateral diplomacy with Kim risks the United States getting suckered into a fruitless series of negotiations (keep in mind that the peace negotiations at Panmunjon have been dragging on for 65 years!) that might result in an even "badder" deal than his predecessor signed with Iran or forcing him to storm out of the negotiations in a huff.
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Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week: "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream," by Aaron Glantz "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership," by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "Janis: Her Life and Music," by Holly George-Warren "In the Dream House: A Memoir," by Carmen Maria Machado We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Republican senators like Richard BurrRichard Mauze BurrHoekstra emerges as favorite for top intelligence post Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Trump withdraws Ratcliffe as Intelligence pick MORE, in trying to be fair, have been manipulated by selective and often false leaks and too easily suckered into clearing the way for a never-ending spiral of subpoenas and hearings.
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