Playing the angles, the permanent government of which Obama is the avatar more often than not, cunningly manages to bluff the politicos into folding.
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Or that Ray Muzyka, co-CEO of the BioWare multiplayer videogame company, may be hard to bluff because he won the 2006 Celebrity Poker Tournament.
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Thus, we get to watch the leader of the Western world holding a busted flush trying to bluff his way through the final round of betting.
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The leaked papal letters also show that Cardinal Bertone tried unsuccessfully to bluff the then archbishop of Milan into resigning a post that controls the city's Catholic University.
If you want to know which poker hands to bluff with, why neighbourhoods with permanent residents have more road crossings or why digital communication makes the world spikier not flatter, Mr Harford's book provides some answers.
"Vietnam has planned to bluff the international community by playing the role of victim, and it is actually trying to justify its illegal claim over the islands, " Wu Shicun, director of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, tells China Daily.
He's here to call their bluff, to tell them the truth they don't want to hear: most of their principles are bad (if well intentioned) and will ultimately lead to nobody making any money, having any ownership over the quality of their creations, or any way to support themselves on the internet -- outside of giant companies whose main source of revenue is online advertising.
Tourists are a vital part of the economy, as they come ashore to places like Bluff Cove lagoon to watch the Gentoo and King penguins, and enjoy a proper Falklands cream tea.
After Afghanistan, the Soviets modernised their nuclear arsenal and threatened to move nuclear weapons into central Europe, forcing Mr Reagan to respond to their bluff.
China, which has embarked on a major naval arms buildup in recent years, appears to believe that it can bluff and bluster its way to supremacy in the surrounding seas, but its neighbors are not standing passively by.
Individuals, companies, and governments all over the world look like they are about to call his bluff.
That meant people on benefits knew ministers were able to call their bluff.
Still, inside them the idea of self-imposed exile has risen in salience: from a bluff to a plan B.
There's only one way to find out: for Bush to call his bluff.
And many prominent Republican Congressmen are loath to call their bluff.
His successor will face the dilemma of whether to shut off the Carlsbad irrigators to make sure that enough water can flow down to the Red Bluff reservoir in Texas.
The government, perhaps unsurprisingly, failed to call their bluff.
After a few minutes on the beach, you'll be led up a bluff to see their nesting ground, where the birds often return to the same mate and same nest year after year.
An amber hunter named Sue Hendrickson, working with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that collects and prepares fossils, had wandered off to explore a bluff as her crew changed a flat tire, and came back with a handful of dinosaur.
They're telling customers the Tiger copies that shipped out early will not be supported by Apple, and that users will have to return the boxes and get new copies shipped next week though how they would differentiate "supported" from "unsupported" versions out of all that mess sounds like a bit of a bluff to us.
He thinks the mayor's threat to shut up shop may be just a bluff in an attempt to wrest more money from the state, which is busy with another racing-industry crisis.
She has been handed an opening to call the North's bluff and order the South Korean employees to come home.
Its well-paid pilots (300 of them to fly a mere ten planes) had called Mr de Irala's bluff by refusing to accept a restructuring plan.
Mr Walker added the group decided to "call everyone's bluff" and call in PWC in a attempt to rekindle negotiations.
In contrast, men tend to use threats, bluff, stake out extreme positions, and use competitive and confrontational tactics.
Perhaps this is just a bluff, to goad Mr Obama into further sanctions, or make him take the military action he plainly wants to avoid.
They win because they apply finely honed strategies and tactics, calculate and recalculate the odds, read their opponents well, avoid becoming predictable and know how and when to make a good bluff.
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This noise might be just a bluff designed to signal to Iran that it would be wise to stop enriching uranium, as the United Nations Security Council ordered it to a full two years ago.
The crisis drags on in North Korea as Kim Jong-Un continues his threatening rhetoric and the world tries to suss out whether the whole thing is bluff and bluster or a serious threat to international security.
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