But others argue that much of the investment banks' reported profit is not real.
The appropriate metaphor for spectrum in the 21st century is the ocean, not real estate.
We kind of keep expecting Becky to come around the corner and say it's not real.
We know the athletes are not real warriors, of course, but clothing sends powerful messages.
Does that mean doing e-mail on a tablet is suddenly not real work?
So the long-term impact of sequestration is not real cuts but lower spending growth.
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Too many of their analysts are not real researchers or academics, but former journalists.
"The people in this programme are not real Taliban, " scoffed Afghans I had met in Kabul.
So the opportunity to actually get this passed right now is not real high.
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But just because the medicine is not real does not mean it doesn't work.
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On the other hand, following your child in this way is not real engagement, it's pseudo involvement.
If you have the pretense of reform but not real reform, that's not going to be effective.
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How vague and lacking in evidence does a phenomenon have to be before we accept that it is not real?
And, there is no way the contamination and its detrimental impact upon the people there is not real.
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It's hard to believe the figures are not real people and, according to Disney officials, that's the goal.
Yes, it was security theater and not real security, but it made many of us feel safer.
And they're not real big on this idea of an escalation or a surge, whatever you call it.
Just because we can't see a side effect doesn't mean it's not real.
Well, maybe not real economic value for you or me, but obviously very real economic value for Mr. Summers.
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One critic I recently read argued that it is not real barbecue if they serve it on actual plates.
If ritual affects the way we use recreational drugs, why not real medicines?
One final note about nuclear power: Most of the problems with nuclear power are perceptional, not real at all.
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And I do believe that Beck has hurt people by convincing them to believe in things that are not real.
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The problem is that it's not real, says Joanna Lipari, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
And, of course, we have a ready-made rationalization for this barbarism as well: Kids, we say, know that it's not real.
But there is a minority view, that they are not real fractures at all but merely indicate anomalies in bone growth.
They were not real U.N. observers, however, but demonstrators who were mocking the tiny six-man U.N. mission in the country so far.
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Let the moral relativists rant: I say that the gains one makes through lying are not real gains, and must be nullified.
It is about easy chairs and television, not real change, It is about listening to slogans and jingles instead of the issues.
One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.
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