Most times, the fakers seem to stick with items that are relatively easy to replicate, making everyone's lives a good bit easier when it comes to choosing between the authentic and the knockoff, but JaiQi Toys has upped the copycat ante a bit with its full-fledged lineup of Wowwee rips.
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One of its founders who chipped in an undisclosed amount in 1998 saw his ante jump a hundredfold, says Tom J.
In the short term, though, Mr Sanader will have to resolve the problem of Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Anil upped the ante, opening a fresh round of firing this week, alleging that his older sibling was being unfairly favored by India's petroleum ministry, headed by petroleum minister Murli Deora.
When a live auction featuring a signed guitar wasn't generating enough interest, Springsteen took the microphone and upped the ante, throwing in a free guitar lesson with himself as the teacher, a ride in the side car of his Harley, eight tickets to the E Street concert of their choice, a backstage tour and lasagna made by his 87-year-old mother, Adele.
That establishes six films in the Batman series, and leads into a third trilogy to up the ante and complete the creation of a fully realized Batman world with most of the main elements from the comics in place.
Margins are collateral that traders put up to hold a futures position, and they have to either ante up more or exit a position when they get margin calls as a market moves against them.
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The New York lounge operates five days a week year-round, but Smith upped the ante last year by hosting a huge club room at the Gansevoort Park Avenue South Hotel for the duration of fashion week.
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Eleven years ago, the last prime minister of unified Yugoslavia, Ante Markovic, launched a last-ditch plan for economic stabilisation.
The lounge operates five days a week year-round, but Smith upped the ante for fashion week in hosting a huge club room throughout the weekend at the Gansevoort Park Avenue South Hotel-and has no qualms about saying he thinks the models have been forgotten between the chaos of corporate sponsors, VIP passes and predatory agents.
Among revivals of musicals, "Pippin" is the strongest contender, with 10 nominations, including one for its director, Diane Paulus. (Only five musical revivals were eligible for the award, and four of them earned nominations.) A highly inventive revival that upped the ante by adding all manner of circus acts, including a grandmother hoisted aloft, Ms. Paulus will give "Matilda" director Matthew Warchus tough competition.
As a result, taxpayers were forced to ante up more money to make sure government employees would enjoy a financially secure retirement while at the same time, private sector employers closed their defined benefit plans to avoid funding them.
The last time we mentioned Toshiba's M400, it was rocking a lowly Core Solo processor and a 1, 024 x 768 resolution LCD, but now Toshiba is upping the ante on the convertible by tossing in a Core 2 Duo chip along with HSDPA technology.
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Energy Transfer is thus raising the ante in what has become a bidding war for Southern Union.
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By the standards of professional sports, poker is distinctly a penny-ante game.
The borders should not be changed by force and the status quo ante should be restored as a pre-condition for a subsequent demarcation and delineation of the border.
And he said that he thinks that in some cases, when companies see that a competitor is paying a particular doctor a great deal, they may feel a need to ante up too.
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And Marzouki's attorney, Tony Buzbee, upped the ante on Friday by releasing a series of text messages he said were between his client and Williams that indicate how despondent the player was over their breakup in November.
Hearing Microsoft's name and "in-car stereo" in the same sentence should elicit any forms of surprise, as we've long since known that Redmond was looking to up the ante of automotive entertainment in a bevy of Ford vehicles later this year.
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Cipriani's conversion levelled it at 13-13 and Munster endured a torrid 10 minutes as Wasps upped the ante, but Sackey was unable to ground the ball after taking a quick tap penalty.
My idea for our first prank was "ante-temporal search, " a breakthrough development that anticipated user requests.
The ex ante imbalance tends to be only a modest fraction of total market turnover.
As an entrepreneur, start looking for ways to up your own ante and terrify yourself (just a little).
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Or will they merely serve as the candidates' opening ante in what looks to become a bidding war?
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Nevertheless, upping the ante with respect to accountability is a must.
In addition, some are exiting due to margin calls in which they otherwise would have to ante up more money to retain a leveraged futures position.
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Ford upped the ante by including luxury features in a pickup truck and slapping on the Lincoln badge and aesthetic to create the Blackwood and the Mark LT, neither of which survived for long.
Cojuangco initially put up a poison pill making it expensive for anyone to attempt a takeover, but according to one source, Jimenez convinced Pangilinan to up the ante for PLDT and persuaded Cojuangco that he was getting a good price for the family's shares.
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