Why give a pass to taxpayers who go through some ritual involving a make-believe "exchange"?
"Just like War of the Worlds, Gil's stories are scary but they are make-believe, " she said.
But as soon as you think about it, such a claim to idealism is make-believe.
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"The issues facing our country are too serious for political game-playing or make-believe economics, " he said.
But is planting virtual tomatoes and plugging make-believe mobsters enough to base a billion-dollar company on?
In a city known for creating the make-believe, finding something real is priceless.
Lacking the make-believe royalty of Hollywood, the Nobel Foundation has to make do with the real thing.
Most readers are players of fantasy sports, make-believe leagues based on real-life performances.
When you first encounter it, there is a whiff of sci-fi make-believe about this tearing down of ancient language barriers.
Reding, while also working on other make-believe sporting heroes, spent time working on Belgium's favorite young adventurer Tintin during the 1950s.
London's Natural History Museum is a place of wonderment and beauty... unless you're an eight-year-old who can't differentiate between reality and make-believe.
Mr. NASCIMENTO: (Singing) Love will always win when you give it make-believe.
Instead it has been wasting its time in a world of make-believe.
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At one point, Hanks said, make-believe collided with one woman's fairy tale.
Although the most recent data have yet to be published, they're expected to reveal that the vast majority of remembered "facts" are now make-believe.
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It was all quite pretentious, in a make-believe sort of way.
These men need heroes to imitate whom they can relate to in everyday life, not just make-believe superheroes who catch their imagination for an hour or two.
Your income tax expense under GAAP is a make-believe computation.
The parties at war: the make-believe nations of Star and Uran in Karubeki Sekai ("The World That Is Coming"), a futuristic epic by the late Japanese cartoonist Tezuka Osamu.
With make-believe Anglo names such as Wilton and Tarts, the counterfeit Brits were sold by the thousands, and examples can be found today in the formidable British Museum collection.
In a form of make-believe known in professional wrestling as "kayfabe", RJ Brewer is said to be from Phoenix, Arizona, arguably the political centre of the US anti-illegal immigration movement.
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In our world of make-believe, lets pretend a company is going to start a fund that you, as an investor can buy like a stock, to track the price of water over time.
And this stuff is not make-believe any more.
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Instead, Chrysler frittered away its resources on make-believe.
Engravings and inlays of silver and gold depict hunting and court scenes, animals real and make-believe, enthroned kings and courtiers and, unusually, the name of the basin's maker, "master Muhammad ibn al-Zayn may he be forgiven, " appears six times.
So an ID thief in possession of a valid name and Social Security number can create phony W-2s and apply for a refund of make-believe withholding, or for a refundable credit, such as the earned income tax credit, worth thousands of dollars.
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In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.
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Customers didn't know about Victoria, but for years, boardroom fantasizing about her kept executives focused. (The myth was that she was 36, married to a lawyer and lived in London.) Lingerie and clothing in the catalog were items that executives imagined she'd wear sipping make-believe martinis in her imaginary home.
Customers didn't know about Victoria, but for years, boardroom fantasizing about her kept executives focused. (According to the myth, she was 36, married to a lawyer and lived in London.) Lingerie and clothing in the catalog were items executives imagined that she would wear while sipping make-believe martinis at her imaginary homes.
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