College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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It went public that September, with the ticker THIN, by merging with a shell company.
The critter looks like a tiny turtle, but with a shell shaped like a hockey puck.
Something held me back: Bubblegum, my first pet and a shell-carrying member of the Helicidae family.
And the Casino where they danced, on the Rio waterfront, is now a shell.
On another street the New York Hotel is now a shell, windows shattered and walls crumbling.
Their elegant design carried the weight of a shell-dome directly to the ground on stretched pendentives.
The victim told police he was driven to a Shell Gas Station on Memorial Drive in Watertown.
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This time a shell whizzed screaming over my head and burst beyond me over a hundred feet.
An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers.
Smelling a shell game--and a deeper pocket--some of the lawsuits named the successor firm as a defendant.
I've had my eye on a Shell-Gel series case from Ballistic, but I'm still in need of suggestions.
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"If you are going to develop an oilfield, you contract with a Shell or a Schlumberger, " he says.
"It was a little bit of a shell shock to see him doing that well, " Mr. Goodman says.
And as the economy changed, a lot of people wrote off Cleveland as a shell of its former self.
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Now Hadley could see that the pumpkin was only two-thirds of a shell.
Gadwood, like 1, 200 researchers, was stranded like a shell on an empty beach.
Think of it as a networked Segway from another planet with a shell.
Those fears were heightened recently by the Kulluk accident - a Shell oil rig that ran aground in Alaska.
So a deal was reached, through a shell company, for Apple to purchase that trademark for a trivial sum.
The company, after all, was a true pioneer in mobile phones, even as it has become a shell of its former self.
Thalveg, it turns out, is a shell company, sister to others with names like Orange Computer, Purple Mountain Server and Maquis Techtrix.
Proview had a product called the IPAD, Apple set up a shell company to buy the trademark from them.
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The beautiful old palace which used to house the district government is almost completely destroyed - a shell surrounded by rubble.
Warning: A shell won't protect you from liability for your own negligence--say, as the architect of a building that falls down.
They simply stop being whoever they were and become a shell that looks and, part of the time, acts like them.
That year a Shell-Texaco venture will begin producing natural gas from the 3-km-by-15-km Malampaya field 750 to 1, 150 meters below sea level.
Crumbs went public in June 2011 after a shell company bought it.
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