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Fiorina was exceptional at the slight-of-hand while in Lucent Technologies ... reaffirms my perception of her.
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An independent body would be able to verify figures, and remove suggestions that slight-of-hand is at work in buoying certain heavily-backed releases.
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Neither Gitmo nor Military Tribunals are legitimate; both were recently constructed through legal slight-of-hand to evade core American legal principles.
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An independent body would be able to verify figures, and remove suggestions that slight-of-hand is at work in buoying certain heavily-backed releases.
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So that people could learn how to deceive a popular audience via lip-synching techniques and film slight-of-hand beneath the larger guise of a breezy romantic comedy?
Top 10 Classic Movies That Got it Wrong » Scene-Stealers 2009
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In response to this challenge, Congress offered yet another violation of the Establishment Clause by using sleazy slight-of-hand to circumvent the Constitution.
Jeff Schweitzer: Christian Bias and Supreme Court Extremism 2010
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The report by Lehman's court-appointed bankruptcy examiner, which runs thousands of pages, recounts efforts by the bank to use slight-of-hand accounting transactions to spiff up its financial picture and sometimes use low-quality collateral to get loans.
Repos Played a Key Role in Lehman's Demise Susanne Craig 2010
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The report by Lehman's court-appointed bankruptcy examiner, which runs thousands of pages, recounts efforts by the bank to use slight-of-hand accounting transactions to spiff up its financial picture and sometimes use low-quality collateral to get loans.
Repos Played a Key Role in Lehman's Demise Susanne Craig 2010
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It's a Fox News-aided slight-of-hand that the GOP and their news organization are hoping will spin into a win in August for their slate of candidates for federal office.
Brian Ross: This August, Will Voters Remember that the GOP Puts Politics Before Policy? 2010
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It's a Fox News-aided slight-of-hand that the GOP and their news organization are hoping will spin into a win in August for their slate of candidates for federal office.
Brian Ross: This August, Will Voters Remember that the GOP Puts Politics Before Policy? 2010
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