Then Diller declared that he would launch or buy a print companion to the Beast sooner or later, a declaration that looks, in retrospect, like a deliberate bluff with an intended audience of one.
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Still, inside them the idea of self-imposed exile has risen in salience: from a bluff to a plan B.
He thinks the mayor's threat to shut up shop may be just a bluff in an attempt to wrest more money from the state, which is busy with another racing-industry crisis.
'He would have sat on these pews and listened to the lesson from Jonah, given from a lofty pulpit that, as he wrote, "was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows", ' says Dermot.
He now spends about four months a year at Palmetto Bluff, spending the balance of his time in a Connecticut townhouse.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
Falling behind forces a greater willingness to take chances, whether it's sacrificing an important piece in chess or betting big on a poker bluff.
One recent morning, he touted his environmental record on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Santa Monica, but also made sure the few dozen supporters there, knew he was the one who'd opposed Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda back when State Controller Steve Westly was helping the Governor.
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Mr Walker added the group decided to "call everyone's bluff" and call in PWC in a attempt to rekindle negotiations.
Never bluff or strong arm a landlord in a negotiation as this could backfire and create tension, or worse, leave you homeless if you are negotiating a renewal.
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Stark and majestic in steel and poured concrete, sitting on a solitary bluff overlooking the Gulf, it is not the house you'd imagine for a retired couple, but they didn't move south to wither in the sun and die.
In July I landed my Skylane on the narrow, windswept runway on a bluff outside Livingston and visited Field again.
In Wayne's case, Ms. Moore has opted for a tall, bluff fellow with a magnificent singing voice.
"We're going to continue to stand our ground, " he told a business group in a speech in Seoul Friday, saying the U.S. doesn't bluff on security matters.
Since I grew up loving college basketball, I'm here to help you understand what's going on so that you can bluff your way through a meeting with American clients or hold your own in the hotel bar, at least for a few minutes.
Sinn Fein are campaigning for a poll and the DUP have discussed, in their words, calling Sinn Fein's bluff.
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In this case, he's guided by the notion of a manic mating ritual between foolishly bluff male bugs and deceptively vulnerable female ones.
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Students said it helped in daily life, too, enabling them to read people by detecting the slight hesitation or rapid blinking that signals a bluff.
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The company has installed micro-turbines a top light poles at stores in California and Massachusetts that generate between 2 to 3 kilowatts of electricity but Red Bluff is the first facility that will boast a full-sized wind turbine like those found on wind farms that generate hundreds of megawatts of power.
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