College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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Smelling a shell game--and a deeper pocket--some of the lawsuits named the successor firm as a defendant.
And, Steve, that massive Ponzi scheme that you and Jim were just talking about, sometimes people call this robbing Peter to pay Paul, or a shell game, pyramid schemes, or close relatives.
What seems like a linguistic shell game is really an exercise in empathy.
Once the Soviet banks have obtained western deposits, a complicated shell game begins.
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Hargreaves Lansdown's Hunter said the company's earnings were better than expected, but highlighted that Shell is playing a "long game" by investing heavily in infrastructure to increase earnings over time.
The early adopters of a new game technology are usually core gamers, who are willing to shell out the big bucks for the latest and greatest system.
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Between a convoluted plot, boring missions, and unfulfilled promises, the first game played like an empty shell of what the audience was hoping for.
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Wasps looked shell-shocked and things went from bad to worse when scrum-half Joe Simpson, who had a lively game, dropped a try-scoring pass from David Lemi five metres from the line.
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