But Judge Jackson held that Microsoft was simply using this innovation argument--a "technological artifice"--in order to extend the Windows monopoly into an Internet browser monopoly.

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Then, investors became concerned that some of Elan's seemingly magical growth was partly the result of accounting artifice--a contention first reported by Forbes (see " Elan's Spin").

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However, unbeknown to Plaintiff, what Spartz would later present as a joint venture agreement turned out to be nothing more than an artifice of self-dealing.

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No artifice, no flash, no -- well, frankly, no star power to speak of.

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Arbus started out in fashion photography in partnership with her husband, Allan Arbus, but by the mid-1950s she had rejected its artifice.

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Each tent is 1, 000 square-feet and inside, all is refined artifice.

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As a first step in making our 400 fortunes less absurd-looking, let's resort to the artifice of a ratio scale.

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Though the images are often generic, the lead actors, whose tough-minded theatricality is second nature, convey the fear and the heartbreak behind the glossy artifice.

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