College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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But instead of gliding to the sidelines, polishing his Harley Davidson motorcycles and waiting for the market froth to subside, Zell concocted his debt-to-the-ceilings purchase of Trib.
Fearing that Castro's hurt pride and widespread Cuban indignation over the concessions Khrushchev had made to Kennedy, might lead to a breakdown of the agreement between the superpowers, the Soviet leader concocted a plan to give Castro a consolation prize.
So Patterson and a ring of his top execs, including Watson, concocted a plan to secretly buy up second-hand cash register stores.
The Senate boss, Finance Committee Chairman Nelson Aldrich, together with President William Howard Taft concocted a compromise to stop the income tax bill that the House had passed.
When Apple fails to live up to whatever lofty expectation analysts have concocted, investors then think it is time to sell.
She has concocted the secret sauce to reach across demographics.
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Such are the questions left to the experts at Caltech, which have just concocted a new device that can focus light to a point just a few nanometers wide.
Somebody has even concocted a fake PR letter to a fake video game journalist which attempts to paint the relationship between video game critics and PR in the worst possible light.
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And in April, when reporters began questioning whether Ms. Warren concocted a Native American ancestry to advance her career (a charge that Mr. Brown led with during Thursday night's debate), she responded clumsily.
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The government also charged that Conte concocted stories that he suggested coaches use to mask the drug activity.
The president of the powerful Sony Computer Entertainment group gives thumbs down to visions of the future concocted by other Sony groups.
In places like the Great Plains, people prefer old-fashioned shots of banking fundamentals to the exotic financial cocktails concocted by the "genius" financiers on the coast.
The court heard how he concocted several other stories in a desperate bid to cover his tracks.
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And most importantly, an enclosed cockpit and in-house concocted gyroscopes will provide some safety assurance and stability to a form of transportation glorified for its uninhibited and dangerous nature.
In a statement, US attorney Paul Fishman said Auernheimer "concocted" the story that the attack was done to make the internet more secure only after he got into trouble for the 2010 hack.
The narrative, concocted by the screenwriter John Logan, is not meant to be taken literally.
Fake newspaper-style headlines with exclamation points, in the manner of a Warner Bros. gangster movie from the nineteen-thirties, suddenly appear and disappear, and some of the voices that are supposed to be those of actual newscasters were clearly concocted by the filmmaker.
That's prosaic in comparison, and the first act is not quite as nimble as it might have been (there's a necessary framing device, but also a redundant romantic interlude concocted by screenwriter David Magee for reasons that have more to do with conventional Hollywood wisdom than the demands of this particular tale).
Guilford has already concocted D-serine blocking compounds and will soon begin animal tests to see whether they live up to their promise.
Last week, Mr. Rafsanjani refused to attend a much-publicized "reconciliation event" concocted by Ali Ardeshir Larijani, the speaker of Iran's ersatz parliament.
Given the carefully concocted blandness of the ballot question, the results should come down to how well each side argues its case.
So Ticconi concocted the "private equity gift partnership program" and is marketing it to a network of alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Fortunately, researchers have concocted a cleaner and less cakey defense against Predators that's more likely to be mom approved.
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Reportedly, Physical Optics Corporation has concocted a prototype gun that utilizes the same method of viewing that a lobster does to see what's ahead in murky waters.
The Gucci story was always going to be a great subject for a juicy read, but Ms Forden has concocted something better even than gossip.
Perhaps it's better to recognize that most solutions to America's problems--now and in the future--will be concocted not in Brussels, Berlin or Paris, but at home.
The team went to some lengths to dimensionalize those portraits, creating rich and nuanced lives and backstories for the ersatz people they had concocted.
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