The bank levy, in particular, will drive banking activity overseas, and banks will avoid most risk adjustments through accounting sleights-of-hand.

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Now as usual, Krugman is getting killed for his sleights and malapropisms.

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But this seemingly mechanical exercise of comparing prices and calculating margins is rife with subjective interference and methodological sleights of hand.

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When the parties to a workplace dispute reveal their interests which are generally their motivations, apparent sleights and jarring miscommunications, reveal the source of the problem and its relatively easy cure.

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Indur Goklany, a policy analyst in the Department of Interior, has documented similar sleights of hand when it comes to predictions of food and water shortages due to global warming.

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