In this current economic environment, governments seek a condition of perpetual inflation in order to maintain the illusion of prosperity in the developed world.
Younger gamers are familiar with this illusion in Blizzard Entertainment games such as Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo.
Mr. Steinmeyer used similar technology to create an illusion in which Frank Sinatra appeared at a 2003 concert.
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These have been specifically created for the Concept GLA: their tread pattern continues the lines of the spokes in an optical illusion that makes the wheel spokes appear longer.
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The day's lecturer, Matt Marcy, a former student who now performs on cruise ships, dissected a crowd-pleasing illusion in which audience members secretly choose a crayon color, a number and a country.
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Understated inflation used in estimating inflation-adjusted growth has created the illusion of recovery in reported GDP.
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The illusion that creators are wholly original in their creations is just that, an illusion.
In pursuance of the illusion that money can remove hard budget constraints, we moved from order to disorder.
When the dollar is weak, capital chases the inefficient illusion reflected in assets of the earth over true growth.
We in the U.S. are living in a world of illusion, where the cost of continuing with our lifestyles is escalating rapidly.
Of course, this illusion flies in the face of common sense, to say nothing of the constitutional duty to provide for the common defense.
Why are we, who are uniquely privileged to have inherited the legacy of individual freedom, so eager to trade it away in search of the illusion of security?
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But while social mobility has diminished in the new Labour years we have a plausible alternative - we have the illusion of social mobility in the celebrity culture.
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Kaminsky's revelation meant that the trust users place in their browsers was an illusion.
The irony is that this too is an illusion, one in which we believe that by deconstructing artifice we are somehow enriched.
Then you will see your sagging gut or the pimples on your face and, in an instant, the illusion explodes and you stop playing.
Since founding Grand Illusion Decorative Painting in 1988, Mr. Finkelstein has been collaborating with designers, responding to trends and creating new concepts by drawing on his deep knowledge of classicism.
Also, if we are looking out at Anor Londo, then I think that points to a definite prequel since the sunlight over Anor Londo in Dark Souls is an illusion.
At the October meeting, Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto noted that she was hearing worrisome talk that builders were going to significant lengths in order to maintain the illusion of a still-robust market for homes.
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Nolan created a world in which other superheroes do not exist, where the illusion of realism is important and keeps things grounded in ways that do not involve aliens and magic.
Falling prices in this one component creates the illusion of falling or lower prices everywhere.
Louboutin took a few laps through the area every day, in the hope of creating an illusion of activity.
But a new bipartisan bill gaining traction in Congress may forever end the illusion that digital commerce represents a zero-tax environment.
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For instance, a small part of the fall in manufacturing jobs is a statistical illusion caused by manufacturers contracting out services.
Learn to work around sleeveless dresses: Your tailor can easily attach an illusion silk chiffon sleeve in a matching shade (the fabric might have to be special-ordered).
An ardent young heiress named Sophie (Lisa Henni) tells him approvingly, almost worshipfully, that when he looks he truly sees, yet Sophie can't see that the man she's falling in love with is an optical illusion, a pair of eyes reporting to a brain that's unconnected to a heart.
Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union -- only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.
Dr Ehrsson believes that the invention of this illusion is an important step in understanding consciousness.
The illusion of stability was shattered in April last year when Nissan Mutual Life Insurance Co. suddenly collapsed.
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