This racket is so lucrative that there is a market for pretending to be a journalist just to bring in payoff money, a premise the writer Yan Geling played on in her novel, The Banquet Bug.
But the worst part was how Zynga set up the game so it took up to a year just to finish a campaign.
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To invite someone, a person just has to send a URL to a session and people can just click the link to join.
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The thing not to do is to start a company just to start a company.
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Have you ever pretended to like a client just to make a sale?
"We've had times where all the batters are on the bases so you have to advance a runner just to get a batter up, " said Mr. Humphreys.
Many startups have to maintain a focused product just to convince a new audience to try something foreign.
Instead of having to fill in a form just to see a superior, staff can now e-mail the company president directly with a query or a problem.
And I also want to take a moment just to note the passing of William Friday, a man whose visionary leadership of this university system was an inspiration to all of us who believe that education is the key to a brighter future. (Applause.) Chancellor Friday was a courageous reformer who transformed North Carolina's public universities into a model for our country.
In Brazil "it's common for someone to start talking to you in the elevator or in a restaurant just to start a conversation, " says Alexandre Hohagen, vice president of Facebook's Latin America division.
In Darfur, women must walk up to seven hours, three to five times a week, just to find a single tree with usable firewood to fuel their fires.
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Who would be so sick as to make up a person just to have them die to intentionally hurt and most publicly embarrass this model of a student-athlete?
As a former academic myself, I am tempted to buy a few shares just to keep a close eye on the stock.
Palin a first-term governor of a state with more reindeer than people, will have to put on a few pounds just to be a lightweight.
When researchers in Germany did the math, they found that the average worker would need their income to go up by a third just to offset the happiness cost of tacking on a 20-minute commute.
For years, ambiguous dashboard lights have clued motorists in on internal issues, but driving to a body shop just to borrow a data port reader is so last decade.
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For example, 46 percent have liked a brand that they have no intention of buying from, and of those, 52 percent liked a brand just to get a free item.
Another thing that undermines electoral fairness is not even illegal: the press sometimes demands a fee just to give a party news coverage (and will happily issue a receipt, if desired).
Shepherd says they quickly had to hire a staffer just to handle ballooning customer support.
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You might discover someone who ignites your imagination and leads to creating a position just to get this star on board.
Now that investors can get advice and market information from many sources other than full-service brokers, they are less willing to pay a premium just to trade.
So indeed, in order to be able to get out of the loan they're in right now, they're going to have to pay a penalty just to be able to get out of the loan and go into something that could very be more affordable.
The nihilist antics of early Dada were to him and others a just response to pointless slaughter.
Without defending the suffering endured by 19th century U.S. immigrants, the simple truth is that the conditions they survived spoke to very ambitious people willing to go through a lot just to make it here.
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Windows 8 was a turn off for traditional PC users because of its radical redesign of the user interface which required consumers to learn quite a bit just to be able to perform their routine tasks.
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It was a relief just to leave the madness behind and drive across the moors four mornings a week to the center, several miles away.
The goal is to strongarm Chevron into a settlement just to make the whole mess go away.
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We're supposed to be gaining 100, 000 to 150, 000 a month just to keep the unemployment rate level.
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First, pipelines would have to be expanded by a third just to move an additional 10tcf of gas to power plants.
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