Adam Silver, the commissioner of the N.B.A., has been floating trial balloons.
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He previously had floated trial balloons about a bid for the White House.
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Behind closed doors, negotiators can float trial balloons and make tacit offers — deniably.
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We're even suddenly seeing trial balloons floated for Paul Ryan as the nominee.
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We expect the White House to float a few tax policy trial balloons in August.
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"Rob Manfred, since he's taken over, has floated a lot of trial balloons," he said.
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Foreign diplomats wonder whether the paper floats trial balloons for party hardliners, or simply pursues profit.
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They are using this time to float trial balloons and tap into voter anger on both sides.
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At the bottom of the scale, remarks by unnamed state media commentators are often just trial balloons.
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Both trial balloons, which were perceived as slightly desperate, were quickly shot down, and for good reason.
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"It's going to be really tough because a lot of these trial balloons have been shot," said Becchi.
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Of course, some trial balloons floated out of the Trump administration vanish into the ether without becoming policy.
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And the best place to figure that out is probably not seeing how we react to trial balloons.
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Late-night meetings, myths of White House "shortlists" and trial balloons of potential nominees coming from who-knows-where.
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Leaks were a common occurrence as staffers hyped their own policy positions, even brazenly floating them in trial balloons.
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Trial balloons: Trump indicated that many of the names floated before he tapped Jackson would be given new consideration.
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"This is one of a lot of ideas that he's willing to float trial balloons on," Antos said of Trump.
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But just as often, the things that seem significant turn out to be red herrings or swiftly abandoned trial balloons.
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"A lot of the narratives are tested, like trial balloons, to see how it works with the base," Darcy said.
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The Trump administration for months has been floating various trial balloons aimed at propping up aging plants — and their suppliers.
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Throughout the week, Trump appeared to be sending up trial balloons on the nature of power -- sometimes flippant and sometimes sinister.
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"Early talks" do fall apart sometimes, and sometimes studios and agencies will float trial balloons to gauge reaction to use in negotiations.
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Medicare for All, for example, was not born out of a traditional marriage between think-tank white papers and political trial balloons.
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And she's leveraging that coverage to float trial balloons on various policy topics, like a Green New Deal or a progressive tax rate.
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In recent months China has sent up a series of trial balloons to see how far it can stretch the boundaries of German democracy.
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And it's the reason that Republican insiders keep floating trial balloons about a Paul Ryan white knight candidacy, which Ryan has only tentatively batted away.
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But given how quickly trial balloons were being sent from someone either in the Bills' or Watkins's camp Sunday morning—before the games even started!
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I think a lot of narratives are maybe tested on ... It's like trial balloons and it's tested to see how it works with the base.
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I recognize that these attempts are at best trial balloons, and at worst ill-advised ventures by those intoxicated at the potential size of market.
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Trump is a master of this strategy, often floating "trial balloons" of extreme policy ideas, only to walk them back and look like he's compromising.
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So there is no trustworthy voice providing public clarity — least of all poor Sean Spicer — in cases where multiple balls and trial balloons are airborne.
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Some of the proposals could serve as trial balloons to gauge or shape public sentiment, especially on such sensitive issues as marriage and gender equality.
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Over the subsequent decade, prominent Democrats and Republican allies like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner floated carbon pricing trial balloons in the US Senate.
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Now sitting at this table in the city that birthed a thousand Cold War plots and counterplots, he finds that first successful return of those many trial balloons.
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Officials still say legislation could move this year, and several trial balloons have been floated as they seek to find a bill that could pass muster in Congress.
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Several Cabinet members -- including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen -- are being targeted by whispering campaigns, leaks and speculation about their fates as trial balloons float about possible replacements.
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That latter category includes allowing unnamed government officials to use the press as a megaphone, to float politically sensitive trial balloons, or to disparage their enemies without accountability.
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The endgame Whether the positions Trump and Giuliani rolled out Monday are genuine shifts or are just trial balloons will play out over the next weeks and months.
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"We've now had two trial balloons from Fed officials saying 'We don't see any reason to lower rates in September,'" said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
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I have been floating "Bailamos" trial balloons with my friends whenever we're hanging outside and they let me control the Bluetooth, and I gotta tell you––the song kills.
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The other candidates, with the exception of some trial balloons — flat tax, earmarking reform, vocational education — from the earnest Mr. Hightower, barely even tried to galvanize voters with policy ideas.
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Let me tell you, a lot of times, it&aposs official policy coming from an administration in terms of trial balloons and the like that they are putting out to reporters.
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Yet, Tesla's particular style — which mainly involves Musk tweeting out the changes — often feels like a company floating trial balloons to see what sticks, or what its customer base will accept.
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Schumer said in a statement that Trump is "floating trial balloons" to derail the investigation and said Republicans "have an obligation" to establish that Mueller's firing would be a red line.
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In other words, a ton of effort by Yahoo bankers to gin up interest and make all the bidders insecure by sending out trial balloons that certain big players are going for it.
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Trump has used speeches and Tweets to launch trial balloons for almost two years now, and in the process has changed our expectations for what a leader of a democracy might say and do.
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"You would have thought the administration would have revised the budget in light of the overwhelming adverse reaction they encountered from previous trial balloons, instead ... they doubled down," said Bill Becker, the NACAA's executive director.
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On Wednesday evening, Senate Democrats were sending up trial balloons: What if they cut a deal with Senate Republicans in which Gorsuch gets through and they preserve their filibuster power for Donald Trump's next Supreme Court nominee?
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But the fact that these particular trial balloons popped loudly is also a good reminder not to make too much just yet of any of the changes that are under discussion, or the precise figures behind them.
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Read: Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate Accord President Trump's administration has floated a number of trial balloons that have raised fears of a trade war that would likely not do Canada's economy much good.
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"If you look through history, at this point early in an administration, in the first year of any new administration — especially when you have a change in parties at the White House — you have a lot of trial balloons floated," he said.
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"I think these states will be seen as kind of trial balloons, even though they are proposing reforms that only apply to a relatively small share of their insurance market," said Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Sources said Trump did want to see how trial balloons about Kavanaugh went down in the conservative media echo chamber, and was heartened to see key conservatives like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and writers for Breitbart rally behind him in recent days.
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The salvos against Mueller last weekend absolutely had a logic: They were shirt-tailed to the firing of the deputy F.B.I. director Andrew McCabe in the service of a corruption narrative, and they were trial balloons to see how negatively Republican leaders in Congress responded.
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We're told trial balloons were floated by at least 4 camps ... we're told everyone's so scared of the backlash the camps will never admit they've even entertained the prospect of singing at the inauguration ... they're all so worried it will negatively impact the artists' careers.
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"With U.S.-China relations moving towards divorce it is perhaps no surprise that public trial balloons are being floated by the PBOC that the magical '7' red line for USD/CNY is not so magic, and that there is little practical difference between 6.99 and 7.10 or 7.20," said Michael Every, senior strategist for Asia Pacific at Rabobank.
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The Epstein situation forced MIT Media Lab to evolve the sort of institutional culture that could keep Epstein secret — which meant, in the New Yorker piece, dismissing and ignoring the concerns of researchers who objected to the situation, keeping the scientists who objected to Epstein away when he visited, and floating trial balloons during the hiring process to screen out anyone who'd object to working with Epstein.
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This Ohio law fits neatly in a row alongside numerous blatantly unconstitutional trial balloons floated by Team Trump -- Trump's tweeted suggestion that flag-burners ought to be stripped of citizenship and put in jail; Trump's proposed Muslim ban which would contravene the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion; and of course, the very real possibility that Trump could violate the Constitution the moment he is sworn into office if he fails to divest himself of his business interests, which would violate the Emoluments Clause.
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Y.) said on Sunday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is "floating trial balloons about derailing" special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation.
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CNN (17 September 2003). In 2004, the Indian Army was spending an estimated US$2 million a month to support its personnel stationed in the region.Arun Bhattacharjee. "On Kashmir, hot air and trial balloons" .
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He is equally Russophile and apt to be critical > of British Imperial policy. He is an out and out internationalist and > champion of labour and negro rights (Florida has no poll tax) and thus a > passionate supporter of the Administration's more internationalist policies. > He is occasionally used by the President for the purpose of sending up trial > balloons in matters of foreign policy. With all these qualities, he is, in > his methods, a thoroughly opportunist politician.
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As cutbacks continued through 1988, membership dipped further and revenues sagged. By 1989, privatization and deregulation were in full swing and the government was floating trial balloons about privatization of some of its most important human services. Membership continued to decline, mainly through cuts to the government service, and AUPE faced substantial debt, reduced revenues and crippling building costs. When bargaining stalled in 1990 and government pressed ahead with its divestment of people services, social workers in Local 006 led a 22-day strike over workload and staffing.
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Jackson Pollock: An American Saga was published in 1990, winning the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The Philadelphia Inquirer called the book "Brilliant and definitive … so absorbing in its narrative drive and so exhaustively detailed that it makes everything that came before seem like trial balloons." Van Gogh: The Life, which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called "magisterial," was published in 2011 with a companion website hosting over 6,000 pages of notes. The book stirred global controversy by debunking the widely accepted theory that Van Gogh committed suicide and arguing instead that village bullies shot him.
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To offset the operational costs, proponents of the SST concept suggested the lower trip times would command higher ticket prices. This would make them attractive to a segment of the market that currently paid higher ticket prices for first class seats. In theory, the faster trip times would also allow a reduction in costs needed to fly a given number of passengers, as fewer aircraft would be needed to cover a given route. By 1960, several companies had shown models or mock- ups of SST designs, but most of these were trial balloons with no serious study behind them.
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The selection of the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate for the 1964 United States presidential election occurred at the party's national convention. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency. As the 25th Amendment had not yet been passed, there was no process for filling the office of vice president until the next post-election inauguration, and Speaker of the House John William McCormack was next-in-line for the presidency from November 1963 to January 1965. Johnson carefully considered his running mate for the 1964 election, and put up "trial balloons" in the media about possible running mates.
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