" - Jenna, 236 "At work: white elephant Squatty Potty.
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" — Carlos H Gil, 66, Briarwood, N.Y. "White elephant bones.
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A white elephant gift here, a Cyber Monday splurge there.
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Ready to kill it at your White Elephant gift exchange?
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Nearly every city that's hosted an olympiad lives with a white elephant.
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Too much investment has gone into white-elephant projects and ghost cities.
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"This is a white elephant," said Lettunich, pointing to the entry facility.
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It's $19.99, so it probably clocks right into your White Elephant budget.
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According to the rapper, though, he purchased it as a white elephant gift.
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And if you do them wrong, they can be a big white elephant.
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The perfect white elephant gift is one part zany and one part practical.
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Chances are that white-elephant buildings, eggs and long-life milk will not feature.
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"It's a white elephant, a big one," he said in Portuguese through an interpreter.
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And the Elvis one, we do a white elephant gift exchange around the holidays.
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Because if the living room doesn't become a battleground, it's not really white elephant.
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The event, Harris says, typically ends with a lavish round of White Elephant gifting.
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You could even absolutely dominate this year's office white elephant gift exchange if you choose.
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Whether it's for a hostess gift or white elephant swap, it's important to be prepared.
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Well, trust us, it is, especially in the context of a white elephant gift swap.
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" Homophobia, Balcomb added, "is the white elephant in the room that doesn't get talked about.
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It makes me wonder if our so-called Dubai isn't a big (corruption-tainted) white elephant.
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Searching for a great holiday gift that won't end up in next year's white elephant game?
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We're talking about the wacky white elephant gift exchanges that seem to spring up in December.
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"It's definitely the white elephant in the room that I'm there with people doing marijuana," she says.
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To manage the risk of white-elephant projects, private-sector partners should be involved from the start.
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White Elephant merges a lot of burlesque: boys, girls, those who have no time for either distinction.
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When the Great Recession hit, the building became a white elephant, its debt threatening the family fortune.
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It even has sections for geeky gifts, white elephant exchanges, gifts under $20, unique gifts and stocking stuffers.
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The other owners apparently refused, putting Ms. Blamey in charge of the hulking white elephant from the '80s.
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Even if the Russians can build this nuclear white elephant, it's not clear what it's supposed to do.
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The classic stoner tabletop game Zonk is a good gift to bring to the company white elephant exchange.
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KELLY EVANS: Draymond, what about people say you guys are going to have a white elephant stadium there.
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Among them: finding buyers for "white elephant" assets acquired during the boom years, and fixing the company's reputation.
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The seawall, conceived in the early 2525s to reclaim land for agriculture, is the country's most famous white elephant.
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Suddenly, automobiles were all the rage, while the subway that ran underneath them was increasingly becoming Cincinnati's white elephant.
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Host cities have been left with white elephant stadiums, billions in bills and fewer economic benefits than they expected.
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Each hotel is different: The White Elephant overlooks the harbor; White Elephant Village offers free bicycle rentals and has a pool; the Cottages sits alongside the marina; the Jared Coffin House is in the heart of town, near boutiques and restaurants; and guests at the Wauwinet have access to two private beaches.
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For Dr Mahathir's government, the link is a white elephant: the east coast is much less populated than the west.
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The park is relatively free of the disused, white-elephant structures that have embarrassed cities such as Athens and Beijing.
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It is easy to dismiss the endeavour as a white elephant erected by Turkey's sultan-like president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Instead we'll just end up with more highways in North Dakota or more white elephant projects that deliver little value.
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The other Olympics legacy rail project, the light rail (or VLT) in downtown Rio, is not a total white elephant.
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Bloom says that on her team, they have a giant game of White Elephant for those who want to participate.
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The "unlocked" box, if it ever arrives, will wind up an expensive white elephant, sitting unused in your living room.
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But the payoff is major: Think of the satisfaction you'll feel when your white-elephant present has everyone fighting over it.
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Nothing tears families apart like an intense game of White Elephant, but this family takes things to another level of competition.
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Dam opponents say the company's track record gels with postwar Lebanon's notorious record for state corruption and white elephant infrastructure projects.
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Below are some highlights that will add a new dimension to your bookcase or pleasantly surprise at a White Elephant exchange.
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The Christmas Shop is the brand's one-stop shop for all things holiday, from Christmas tree decorations to White Elephant gifts.
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It's no good maintaining poorly designed roads and white elephant projects like unused convention centers and only rarely used football stadiums.
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In contrast to the very traditional meal, the family focuses on wild and wacky White Elephant gifts for exchange between members.
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But if you really want to keep going with gifts, make the switch to a Secret Santa or a White Elephant party.
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In many parts of China, politicised infrastructure spending has led to a number of white-elephant projects, but not in the PRD.
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Maybe you're part of a fun/dreadful white elephant gift exchange at work, or perhaps you're (totally reasonably) gifting on a budget.
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Those in the know might be forgiven for wondering if the new control tower is less a beacon than a white elephant.
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Lagarde said governments in the region might be tempted to favor white elephant projects instead of investment in people and productive potential.
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Some celebrate via white elephant parties, family gatherings, or just because so many things were on sale on Amazon so why not?
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Some Kazakhs say the Oskemen facility could become a white elephant, as the Kazakh government must pay for its maintenance and security.
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"There are too many examples in Africa of using "white elephant" markets to move people away from economically viable places," she says.
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Near the register, you'll find tons of small, affordable gifts, whether you're looking for a goofy white-elephant present or stocking stuffers.
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I don't know about you, but my extended family's white elephant gift exchange always culminates in a petty fight over certain presents.
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Call it a stocking stuffer or a white elephant gift — whatever it is, they're going to crack up when they open it!
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In the statement, KFC also suggested this as the perfect gift for office Secret Santa or White Elephant gift exchanges with friends.
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But if it persists with quixotic social engineering, investors will start with the $2 trillion valuation and apply a white elephant discount.
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Very likely yes, which makes these packs a solid gift option for White Elephant gift swaps, office Secret Santas and 10-year-olds.
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Figuring out whether the LOP-G is a white elephant or not would be part of bringing that point of view to bear.
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He planned six so-called economic cities, one of which, the King Abdullah Economic City, is little more than an expensive white elephant.
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Ruzhou is home to a number of white-elephant projects, including a stadium and sports complex turned e-commerce center, now largely unused.
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"The old Longchamp looked empty most of the year because it was a white elephant conceived to welcome over 60,000 people," Delloye said.
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My extended family does a white elephant gift exchange every year and it can get pretty raunchy, so this is a perfect gift.
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From snarky socks to punny mugs, we've rounded up hilarious presents that are sure to be a hit at any white elephant party.
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Now, it would get pretty confusing if you did this for all your friends (without going the Secret Santa or White Elephant route).
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My next show in the city is the 'White Elephant Burlesque Presents Star Wars' at Rockbar NYC at 8:00 PM on May 4.
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The goal should not be to fund large numbers of one-off "white elephant" projects, but to create strong, vital, economically self-sustaining infrastructure.
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" Wuttke warned the project could be remembered as a "huge white elephant that left an enormous amount of wasted resources strewn along its path.
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The hapless Kuznetsov "is largely a white elephant with no real mission," in the words of Michael Kofman, an expert on Russia's armed forces.
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Unlike almost every other gifting occasion, White Elephant, Yankee Swap, and/or Nasty Christmas exchanges reward originality, humor, and risk-taking above all else.
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Leading their procession was a life-size likeness of Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, sitting on a model of a white elephant.
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"If [we] only built projects that could cover their costs with user charges, we would have far fewer white elephant projects," says Harvard's Glaeser.
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Millennium Falcon Ice Molds If you're playing White Elephant with a bunch of Star Wars fanatics, these ice molds will surely start a brawl.
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Still, you might say, the Olympic Stadium was built by London for the games, and so West Ham saved us from a white elephant situation.
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Until recently the new film was best known as a languishing white elephant once destined to star Beyoncé under the guidance of Clint Eastwood. Imagine!
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Ten years later, with NASA once again headed back to the moon, the space agency is stuck with a white elephant of a big rocket.
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Workplaces and families everywhere are starting to plan their annual holiday parties which inevitably means a White Elephant gift exchange is in your near future.
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Analysts say the commission's report would provide her the political cover to kill an unpopular white elephant that she inherited from Myanmar's former military government.
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"The White Elephant," the capacious first story in Amy Parker's engaging linked collection, "Beasts and Children," tracks the disintegration of 10-year-old Cissy Bowman's family.
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However, critics argue the project is structured to benefit China more than anyone else, and risks burdening developing countries with debt and expensive white elephant projects.
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They have devised an ingenious and so so pure remedy to this very common white elephant problem, and it took the internet by storm on Christmas.
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The sprawling terminal may have become a bit of a white elephant with the falloff in passenger traffic, but not so the airport as a whole.
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A hotel's general manager can make your stay at a property that much better, said Bettina Landt, general manager of The White Elephant in Nantucket, Mass.
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Gift exchanges and white elephant parties at work regularly impose limits on how much you're allowed to spend per person, such as $5, $10 or $20.
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So you're getting dressed for a holiday party and have failed to find something in your apartment to throw in for the White Elephant gift exchange.
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While it's not always easy to get out of family gatherings and the office white-elephant happy hour, there is one corner you can cut: gift-wrapping.
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Auspicious signs had preceded his arrival, in the spring of 1950: a white elephant had padded out from the jungle and hailstones had fallen on the capital.
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A non-toxic, water-based paint mixed with powder was used to create the appearance of a white elephant without harming the animals, the Kraal center said.
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Santa's flask is available on Amazon for $19.99 which is perfect because it would keep you just under budget for most secret Santa and white elephant gifts.
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Trader Joe's is also selling a second chocolatey present this holiday season, and this one could easily be treated as a hostess gift or white elephant contribution.
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It's one of those truths that have been the big white elephant in the room that we just now decided to see, because it's in Hollywood now.
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But before the new towers arrived — and before, more recently, Rio's white-elephant Olympic stadiums and Mexico City's big-money museums — they were already cities of dreams.
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Critics see it as a white elephant, that will struggle to become viable and be unlikely to draw the 40,000 or so vehicles a day as forecast.
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African governments would do better to ease up on both the white-elephant projects and punitive import taxes if they want to help their citizens to drive.
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When it comes to gift-swapping games like White Elephant, Yankee Swap, or Nasty Christmas, the master gifters must first forget everything they know about holiday gifting.
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"In reality, it's a white elephant," Galdino Diego Perez, the legal representative for Papantla's municipal government, said of the enormous white and gray complex outside of town.
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Critics see it as a white elephant that will struggle to become viable and be unlikely to draw the 40,000 or so vehicles a day as forecast.
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If you can still bear to look at wrinkly old Yoda, we have found the perfect gift to help you win your next White Elephant gift exchange.
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What was once considered a "white elephant" of Mideast international development is now offering a road map to a safer existence for Palestinians and Israelis a like.
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No elephants participated in the official coronation ceremonies, although the king to be presented with a white elephant, a gift that is considered especially auspicious, some time later.
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White elephant projects built by local governments proliferated across China after the central government pumped trillions of yuan into the economy during the 13-2009 global financial crisis.
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A lot of it has to do with unconscious bias and being the white elephant, or the only girl in a group of classmates who are all male.
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Since the point of White Elephant is to get rid of your junk acquired over the last year, gifts tend to be pretty impractical, and competition can get dicey.
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Yet this $1.2bn white elephant is one of the proudest achievements of Nawaz Sharif, who was prime minister when it opened in 463 and is once again running Pakistan.
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Whether that's for friends, family, co-workers, pets, they, them, him, her, secret Santa, or white elephant, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out what to get people.
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Thanabadee said he was overcome with joy to present the new king with the first white elephant of his reign, especially in the auspicious light of the coronation events.
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All things must pass, and though a team in Oakland calls itself the A's and wears white elephant patches on its uniforms, Connie Mack's team is very much dead.
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"If you don't have need for the power, it becomes a sort of stranded asset or a white elephant, and that's the major concern for the future," Eliesen said.
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Some have religious art inscribed with Tibetan script, for example, while others have white-elephant and reclining-Buddha statues, which are typically associated with Southeast Asian forms of Buddhism.
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For now, we will have to wait to discover if the new deal is really a Christmas gift, or if it is simply a nicely wrapped white elephant present.
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With endless Prime products spanning from Fire tablets to skin-care kits, it's easy to get overwhelmed when shopping for your partner's mom or the office White Elephant swap.
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Purchase one of these sequin pillows as a gag gift for a white elephant party, a present for anyone on your list with a sense of humor, or for yourself.
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According to ancient Brahman texts, a white elephant has seven auspicious characteristics: white eyes, a white soft palate, white toenails, white hair, white skin, white tail hair, and white genitals.
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" Twenty-one inflatable works, among them a 10-foot-tall White Elephant and a 103-foot-long Pontiac Trans Am replica of the 1977 car in "Smokey and the Bandit.
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The spacious terminal built for when the Tennessee city was a bustling air travel hub has become a half-deserted white elephant that the airport is spending millions to shrink.
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And if you're looking for a splurge, or happy to be part of a really high-rolling white elephant gift exchange, you might want to nab these before they sell out.
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Adopt a Letter; prices vary *Shipping fees vary by distance Instead of your co-workers' White Elephant exchange this year, team up together to make someone else's holiday wish come true.
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STORRS "Blow Up: Contemporary Inflatable Art," 21 inflatable works, including a 10-foot white elephant and a 43-foot replica of the 1977 "Smokey and the Bandit" Trans Am. Through July 31.
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STORRS "Blow Up: Contemporary Inflatable Art," 21 inflatable works, including a 10-foot white elephant and a 17-foot replica of the 1977 "Smokey and the Bandit" Trans Am. Through July 31.
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While Beijing may acquire control of certain projects in return for forgiving debts, any strategic wins could be outweighed by a host of white elephant investments that offer little benefit to China.
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We've all been there: you unexpectedly grab a good gift at your family or office Christmas party during the white elephant exchange, only to have it snatched away by someone wholly unworthy.
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The new Wheeler Building was an instant white elephant ridiculed as "Wheeler's Folly" for its size and the perceived foolishness of believing the retail corridor would ever move so far up Fulton.
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We have a fun time eating a mix of Nepali and American food and also do a Yankee Swap/White Elephant, play pin the nose on the reindeer, Bingo, and some card games.
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Nantucket boasts some 900 visitor beds, ranging from $175 per night for a single (sans bath) at the Periwinkle to $650 or more for a double at the ultra-luxurious White Elephant hotel.
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The Frick's white elephant once had paint on its surface but was never fired; it was likely made as a spare in case of breakage during firing, or perhaps as a second dispenser.
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But what is a white elephant to the administration is a source of 1,700 construction jobs to state officials and members of the South Carolina congressional delegation, who have vowed to stop the move.
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So an elected leader gets all the flak from those who oppose this white elephant/blot on the landscape but none of the praise for the reduced traffic jams or cheaper power that ensue.
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Even so, the white elephant rubric is particularly useful around awards time, when everything seems overinflated from digital grizzly bears to critical rhetoric and the roar of the Oscar Industrial Complex in full swing.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Oil exporters have not fully recovered from the dramatic oil price shock of 2014, the head of the IMF said on Saturday, and she cautioned against spending money on "white elephant projects".
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There is no set date yet for when Ekachai will undergo an official ceremony to become a royal white elephant of King Rama X, which will see him granted a royal name and title.
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Here's Everything You Need to Know in One Minute "For the holiday party I'm hosting with EBTH, we're doing a White Elephant gift exchange of unique items I've been curating and coveting," he says.
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With oil prices low, some consider the refinery a white elephant and doubt that China will actually pay for a project inked by an over-eager company and a government on the way out.
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In a Twitter post, Caroline Lucas, a lawmaker and co-leader of the Green Party, described the decision as "stunningly short sighted," adding: "We need clean, renewable energy not an outdated, overpriced white elephant."
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Secret Santa is a fun holiday tradition, but too often you end up with cheap gifts that end up going to a White Elephant party or collecting dust in the back of your closet.
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Delays and spiraling costs had set off a fierce discussion about whether the proposed railroad, called High Speed 2, was a vital investment in Britain's creaking transport infrastructure or a financially ruinous white elephant.
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I get six bottles of wine at various price points for people in my office, and R. gets a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black for his work White Elephant (it's alcohol-themed this year).
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"In the event UAVs turn out not to be as successful as expected, it can be easily ignored, and the seal is not burdened with a white elephant sitting front and center on the deck."
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Packaged in a giftable bow, this cheery knit throw with playful tassels ($37.03, normally $52.91) is the perfect for a white elephant gift exchange or adding a sprinkle of holiday spirit to your cozy den.
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Whether you need a gift for the office white elephant exchange, a present for "quirky" Uncle Bobby, or you simply enjoy trimming your tree with fun ornaments, Amazon has the ornaments you've been searching for. ProsCons
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Whether you need a gift for friends, family, co-workers, pets, they, them, him, her, secret Santa, white elephant, or just something to inspire your own unique gift idea, here are some of our top picks.
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I do like and love some of the movies we've been discussing, even if I don't see enough messiness, wildness and risk and do see far too much self-importance, all terminal signs of white-elephant auteurism.
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Because there are too many times or scenarios I've seen in the past when I was selling solar systems instead of selling energy where it was not properly maintained and became a white elephant on the roof.
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From buying that emergency snack at the airport when your flight is delayed forever to holiday get-togethers to that obligatory White Elephant gift you have to bring to your office party, the expenses will add up.
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They are regarded as a symbol of kingship and treated as deities, mainly due to the mythical white elephant Airavata, or Erawan as Thais call him, who is the vehicle of Indra, king of the Hindu gods.
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AidData said that should the economic benefits of China's foreign aid "vanish or diminish" in the coming years, it could help explain why critics have claimed the country has a track record for funding "white elephant" projects.
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The Holiday Spirits Calendar, available at Amazon, $34.99Perfect for your home, your friend's home, or your next White Elephant gift exchange, this DIY advent calendar is sized for 12 days of mini bottles of the (holiday) spirits.
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"We have to ensure we don't end up with a white elephant at the end of the day," said Marc Eliesen, a former BC Hydro chief executive, who has called for an independent review of the project.
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Massive price tags like the $202024 billion spent by Russia on the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and images of decaying white elephant venues from Rio 2016 have left cities and governments questioning the value of hosting an Olympics.
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Whether it's for your mom, dad, sister, brother, partner, friend, colleague, they, them, him, her, cat, dog, secret Santa, or for a White Elephant party, it can often be tricky to select the perfect present for your recipient.
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Myanmar army commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was granted the Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant at a ceremony in Bangkok, according to the general's official website.
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From the $7 Mairico kitchen shears to a $25 PDP Faceoff Nintendo Switch controller, we've got 10 great gift ideas whether you need something for a friend, loved one, co-worker, or secret Santa or white elephant recipient.
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"If you go back to the depths of the recession in Phoenix, Westgate was one of the poster children for big failed white elephant real estate developments," Los Angeles-based David Sotolov, head of West Coast originations at iStar, told Reuters.
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Originally meant for the use of Indonesia's president, the AW101 helicopter looked set to become a white elephant when Joko Widodo in 2015 rejected the $55-million purchase in favor of continuing to use an older helicopter, media have said.
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Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook, available on Amazon, $11.99Useful, funny, unexpected, and — dare we say it — provocative ... this spoof cookbook is one of the best conversation starters and White Elephant gifts under $15 you're likely to find.
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Simply stop by your local CVS and you can grab a $9 metallic polish (or two) for your next DIY mani-pedi, plus an extra-special, gold star-printed bottle for the White Elephant swap you inevitably forget to shop for.
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Since this book is an ideal gift to give this season (really, what Secret Santa or White Elephant game wouldn't benefit from one of these floating around?), we asked the guys to share their tips and tricks to the perfect holiday season.
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Since last year, the 33-year-old male elephant has been treated with reverence as a deity after being identified as the first auspicious white elephant to be discovered under the reign of King Rama X, as the monarch is also known.
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While White Elephant (also known as Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, depending on what you prefer to call it) sounds fun in theory, the stress of finding a truly good gift that's also in the designated price range can also be slightly stressful.
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While the initiative might mean some long-term growth in neglected regions, economists are also concerned about a new buildup of the kind of risky debt that Beijing has been struggling to resolve, and result in more white elephant projects across the country.
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The top 5 best gifts for White Elephant:A Tile Mate with Replaceable BatteryA Custom Prayer CandleBooze & Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music and Mixed DrinksBeer and Food Pairing Guide TowelThe Exploding Kittens Card GameCheck out all 55 gifts for White Elephant below:
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RIYADH (Reuters) - The plan to build a financial district from scratch was viewed by Saudi Arabia's neighbors as among the glossiest excesses of the kingdom's oil boom profligacy: a white elephant in the making, unlikely to attract tenants and possibly never even to be completed.
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The biggest concern with a plan like this, Glaeser told me last fall, is that in the past, a lot of federal spending on infrastructure has been wasted on unnecessary new roads (or white elephant transit projects) rather than upgrading aging but valuable infrastructure.
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Grab the $12 cutesy mascara ornament to stash away for one of the 15 white elephant parties you'll be invited to in the next three months and the sparkly eyeshadow palette you know you'll use well before Halloween — or just shop it all, ahead.
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With that said, however, there does seem something curious about giving up the job the people of one's state elected one to do, particularly when the benefits of a presidential appointment might be — at best, a change of pace — and at worst, a white elephant.
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So whether you need a gift for a co-worker, family member, good friend, or a secret Santa / white elephant party of strangers, we've got a variety of great gift ideas for any budget from a $7 CB2 mug to the $399 Sonos Move.
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The one thing more certain at the Academy Awards than a best actor win for Leonardo DiCaprio was that the broadcast would need to address the white elephant in the room: For the second year in a row, no acting nomination went to a minority performer.
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Compare Boston's T to, say, Taipei, or San Francisco's mishmash of messed-up systems — Muni, where I have waited 45 minutes for a T-Third; CalTrain, which only runs every 90 minutes on weekends; BART, which squandered millions on its useless white-elephant Millbrae station — to Shenzhen.
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Because you know you'll need a little something for your best friend, your sister, and a couple white elephant swaps — and don't want to concede to the easy gift card — we rounded up the best picks from Ulta's Holiday Gift Guide, broken down by price point.
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The south London venue which was saved from ignominy after being saddled with white elephant status and virtually abandoned following its stint in the limelight as the 'Millennium Dome' - center of the capital's celebrations to welcome in the new century - has been privately owned by AEG since 2007.
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In Silicon Valley's Unchecked Arrogance, Ross Baird (Executive Director of Village Capital) and Lenny Mendonca (Director Emeritus at McKinsey) boldly ask an important question that's becoming a white elephant in the Silicon Valley pitch room: How can we enable great people, regardless of zip code, to solve messy societal problems?
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Whether you're shopping for someone who's impossible to buy gifts for, want to stand out at your office White Elephant exchange, or are bored of the old ornaments you have and want to spruce up your tree (pun absolutely intended), it's a great time to pick up some memorable pieces.
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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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Some critics, however, see the bridge as a white elephant that is part of a multi-pronged push by China to exert greater control over Hong Kong, which returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 amid promises to preserve the city's high degree of autonomy and individual freedoms denied in mainland China.
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Gift giving starts with a generous thought — a little something for the friend who graciously volunteered to host this year's White Elephant swap, or a housewarming-holiday gift for your long-distance college friend — but it can quickly spiral into a huge headache when you realize you have no idea what to get.
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The Olympics can produce so-called white elephant stadiums, "where there's absolutely no other use that's of the scale of the Olympics, so you can't really call that sustainable," said Jennifer Minner, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at Cornell who studies the sustainability of international expos and other large events.
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Some critics, however, see the bridge as a white elephant that is part of a multi-pronged push by China to exert greater control over Hong Kong, which returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 amid promises to preserve the city's high degree of autonomy and individual freedoms denied in mainland China.
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We've gone ahead and found some of the coolest affordable White Elephant presents—from portable phone chargers to soothing hand cream to a make your own hot sauce kit—that will be loved by whoever chooses them and also at the top of the list for other players to steal before the game ends.
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Renato Cosentino, a researcher at the Regional and Urban Planning Institute at the Federal University of Rio, who studies the Olympic Park region, said the park "was born as a white elephant," because it was built in a far-flung wealthy suburb that is home to only about 363 percent of Rio's 6.3 million residents.
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Northern Italy was chosen Monday as the site of the 2026 Winter Olympics, with hosting to be shared by Milan, the economic and fashion capital, and the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo as the International Olympic Committee desperately tries to curb waning interest, spiraling costs and white-elephant competition venues associated with the Games.
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That winter, following a protracted but half-hearted battle to keep Philadelphia, then the nation's fourth largest city, a two-team town, the Connie Mack family sold out to real estate dealer and Yankees thrall Arnold Johnson, and the club moved to Kansas City, abandoning over 50 years of tradition, countless white elephant jokes, and a venerable ballpark.
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In a performance world that is often challenging for genderqueer performers, who struggle with being misidentified or discriminated against, Switch n' Play (who stage shows at the Branded Saloon) and their contemporaries are pioneering a new frontier with shows like Homo Erectus at the Stonewall Inn, HyperGender Burlesque at WOW Cafe Theater, and White Elephant Burlesque at RockBar NYC.
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The rare decision to name the hosts of separate Games simultaneously — established with a unanimous vote of I.O.C. members on Tuesday — is an effort by the organization to counter diminished interest shown by democratic nations in hosting the Olympics amid exorbitant costs, white-elephant stadiums, widespread corruption, rampant doping and limited appeal to the youth audience.
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This is a time of year that demands a lot out of a person, including (but not limited to) mandatory (read: awkward) white elephant exchanges at the office, family members that are impossible to shop for (here's 100 gift ideas if you need 'em, btw), and home decor overhauls no matter how small your living situation might be.
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Sure, it may be the time of year to give our beloved cocktail attire a moment in the limelight, but for every swanky fete there are just as many get-togethers with much more loosely-defined dress codes — we're talking white elephant parties, potlucks, and any other last-minute soirées that are presumably casual, but will be an hours-long photo opportunity regardless.
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But early fears that the city might be creating a cultural white elephant were largely allayed in 2014, when the Shed named its first artistic director and chief executive: Alex Poots, who had founded the Manchester International Festival and, as the artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory, had unexpectedly made the Upper East Side a destination for must-see, cutting-edge art.
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By 2013, the plant was finally 95 percent complete, but due to Israeli government policy to not increase electricity sales to Gaza, as long as rockets were being launched from there, NGEST was not operational and came to represent a 'white elephant' of development to the international donor community and the reason why no large projects should be advanced in Gaza.
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Davenport tells Axios that the super-grid would also create some value around ultra-expensive, often white-elephant power projects that China built in places that can't necessarily afford them: As with Belt and Road there is no talk of U.S. participation in these projects: Quite apart from Beijing's own wishes, the U.S., not prepared to cede geopolitical ground, has held itself aloof and has been often openly hostile to Belt and Road.
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DE - ON 23 OCTOBER WHITE ELEPHANT, PUBLISHED OFFER DOCUMENT FOR VOLUNTARY PUBLIC TAKEOVER OFFER TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF CO * 06-Nov-2017 03:13:38 PM - EXCEET-VOLUNTARY OFFER TO CO FOR ACQUISITION OF ALL CLASS A BEARER SHARES, EACH SHARE REPRESENTING NOTIONAL INTEREST IN SHARE CAPITAL OF EUR 0.015 * 06-Nov-2017 03:12:36 PM - EXCEET GROUP-RECOMMENDS THAT SHAREHOLDERS REJECT TAKEOVER OFFER, AS IT DOES NOT REGARD CONSIDERATION OFFERED TO BE REASONABLE FROM FINANCIAL STANDPOINT * 06-Nov-2017 03:13:22 PM - EXCEET-BIDDER MADE OFFER TO ALL EXCEET SHAREHOLDER TO ACQUIRE CLASS A BEARER SHARES IN EXCEET GROUP HELD BY THEM AT CONSIDERATION OF EUR 2.91 PER SHARE Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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" Here is a list of what each animal represents: * The white elephant: former Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osatanakorn, who led the rescue operation * The wild boars: the boys and their coach * The seals: the Thai Navy SEALs * The frogs: the world-class divers involved in the mission * The white horse: all of the heroes who have been involved in the mission * The lion: rescuers from England * The kangaroo: rescuers from Australia * The moose: rescuers from Sweden * The dog: the K9 unit * The brown elephant: rescuers from Laos * The tiger: rescuers from China * The dragon: the water-pumping and drilling teams * The crane: rescuers from Japan * The swallows: climbers from Libong, Thailand * The Iron Man: Elon Musk * The eagle: rescuers from the US * The birds: reporters * The single crow: bad comments and obstacles "Very cute picture.
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