Sentences with phrase «interesting shell game»

It's an interesting shell game, one that we've seen play out recently in the «teacher bailout» pushed for by President Obama; the Wall Street Journal reported that the $ 10 billion subsidy to states to keep them from laying off teachers led to at least $ 100 million in additional dues for the National Education Association.

Not exact matches

And of course, the $ 30 million dollars a year is part of a shell - game that is played so that trustees of fund organizations see perhaps a $ 5 million dollar compensation number for the manager, with other amounts categorized as «ownership interest in the firm» or «long - term compensation pool» etc., etc..

«This rating charade created a Wall Street shell game constructed by the ratings agencies for the benefit of the bond insurers,» he said, adding that bond insurers profited from unnecessary premiums and interest paid by taxpayers.....

The Switch community has proven that it doesn't mind rebuying old games, but it will be interesting to see if they will still shell out cash for a game that may be more expensive due to the peripheral.

Normally, ESP are indeed just a publishing shell but in the case of Game Arts — post Grandia — there were vested interests that did exact a form of editorial control.

Irina Dumitrașcu Măgurean's last project was another group exhibition together with Vlad Olariu and Radu Comșa: 3 shells and a square game at Camera, during the inauguration of Cluj's newest art center — The Center of Interest on the 8th of June 2017.

If the U.S. joins in, cap - and - trade could explode to a $ 3 trillion market... Yet Schapiro describes it as an «elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments, but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.»

The buck will stop with a small group of scientists, politicians and other high level interests running this shell game.

Does anyone think that any parent would want his / her child to be in the presence of a child predating priest who has quietly been moved from one parish to another (after each self - indulgent disgusting episode) like a pea in the shell game by the guardian class from on high looking out for the organization's, I mean, church's interests, if said parent knew about the transgressions?