This week Farmers Insurance inked a record-breaking naming rights deal for a nonexistent Los Angeles stadium that might be home to a nonexistent Los Angeles NFL team.
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And the British Empire is certainly either nonexistent or a shadow of itself.
And, though Berlioz's own faith was tenuous to nonexistent, a story as grand and essential as L'Enfance du Christ ("The Childhood of Christ") proved irresistible.
But the Federal Reserve's bringing inflation down to a near-nonexistent level was the equivalent of a tax cut, overwhelming the damage done by those tax increases.
Then you shoot a black paintball, which splatters against the nonexistent landscape, bringing a part of it to life.
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Yet suffering avoided counts as a good, even when the recipient is a nonexistent one.
Brogan Rafferty, 17, helped Richard Beasley lure victims with bogus ads for a nonexistent rural Ohio cattle farm.
Put volume, by comparison, is practically nonexistent, with a smattering of contracts trading at the January 2014 strike.
Mr. Kapur also repeatedly inflated his firm's assets under management in investor reports and invented a nonexistent management team, the SEC alleged in its civil-fraud suit.
In today's case, to devalue the dollar more to eradicate a nonexistent deflation would merely add gasoline to the fire, with greater unemployment and bankruptcy the result.
He saw and heard mirages: phantom ships, a nonexistent helicopter.
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, 22, later said he created the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman whom Te'o said he fell in love with despite never meeting her in person.
Companies' monthly financial reports may run fine for years, then crash in February of a leap year when software tries to compare Feb. 29, 2012, to a nonexistent Feb. 29, 2011.
Since the irs accepts only a fifth of offers, this sounds like the old "pigeon drop" scam, in which a mark is asked to post "good faith" money to share in a larger nonexistent fortune.
Meanwhile, another case against a fraudster touting nonexistent tech stock is just getting started.
Even the possibility of a big bonus comes with a price: nonexistent job security and near-constant stress.
Free lunches, beer fridges and nonexistent dress codes help put a demonstrative line between startup culture and that of big companies.
Included on the punch list for such a host would be low or nonexistent taxes, easy access to licenses and other official paperwork, and regulators who aren't inclined to ask a lot of questions.
Serving a wildly divergent audience spanning 16 countries and a consumer market aged from 19 to 65, the company realized several years ago that while they were the experts in delivery, their product perception was low, service was low and, since they delivered the pizza to your door, a retail experience was nonexistent.
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The policy ends a century of near-nonexistent IRS regulation of the tax preparation industry.
As women, whether entrepreneurs, corporettes, or community leaders, we often expect our fellow sisters to do a task for some unclear or nonexistent future benefit.
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Even if the debt crisis manages to avoid the worst-case scenario of a Greek default and subsequent collapses of other sovereigns and financial institutions, the Euro zone is staring down a lengthy period of minimal or nonexistent growth for several of its members and that could challenge the earnings potential for some American companies.
Japan is about to plunge into a recession after eight years of almost nonexistent growth.
Secretary Tim Geithner's performance Tuesday was a disaster, and his plan was nonexistent.
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Europe is teetering on the edge of a serious financial meltdown, and football is nonexistent in the United States compared to the fanaticism it inspires in, say, England.
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So the flexibility usually enjoyed by a sovereign country to run budget deficits in a recession to counterbalance the business cycle is virtually nonexistent.
In what is a logical--if desperate--gambit for easy profit, Wainwright is launching a national licensing and merchandising campaign built on the nonexistent shoulders of the mascot.
Ryan Schinman, founder and chief executive of Platinum Rye Entertainment, the world's largest broker of celebrity talent, models, recording artists, sports figures and other celebrities for ad campaigns and p.r. events, says the stigma that once kept Hollywood's A-list from promoting goods is all but nonexistent today.
It also goes a long way toward explaining why newspaper paywalls, almost nonexistent two years ago, now affect one-third of readers.
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