What makes the results particularly surprising is that some accused Bristol of stacking the deck against Lipitor when it designed the study.

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Instead, they take calculated risks, stacking the deck in their favor.

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Skyrimwould probably win hands down stacking the deck like that.

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Rather, the auction mechanism described in the discussion draft is a way of pretending to take the unlicensed option seriously while stacking the deck against spectrum actually going to unlicensed uses.

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Yet Martel tries to have it both ways, attempting to construct a rich reality by accretion of ordinary and realistic detail, while stacking the narrative deck so rigorously that the characters evaporate into symbols almost upon their appearance.

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