But all the fact checkers agreed that this is a flawed methodology, since it pulls from a tainted sample compiled unevenly by the fact checkers themselves.
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Charities in Guernsey have been given the chance to take their choice of unsold stock at the Checkers store at Admiral Park in St Peter Port.
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After sifting through his mail while eating a late lunch, Hull would sit under a shade tree on the front lawn of the Smith County Courthouse and talk with the checkers players.
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If Watergate made it axiomatic that the coverup trumps the crime, the Checkers speech can be regarded as an occasion when a style of exculpation proved more memorable than the substance of an accusation.
Though he was nowhere near the theatre, Checkers, a canine present from a supporter, stole the show.
Each story was pushed to the edge, and the fact-checkers, legions of them, were made to justify the claims or get them taken out.
But inquiring minds will want to know who is paying for the extra secret service protection, the extra wait staff , the screeners and background checkers, and motorcades of the DC and Capital police.
The way they are seeking to do this, they are so clever at this, we on the right, as conservatives we're always playing checkers and the left is always playing chess.
The company said it was partly due to the closure of some of the islands' Checkers stores.
Or they can say these Medicare cuts don't really count as cuts, as the media fact checkers are suddenly finding ways to do.
" Finally, I would like the T-shirt fact-checkers to have a go at the ubiquitous "If You Think Education Is Expensive, Try Ignorance.
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The company acquired the retail chains Smart Group Holdings, Cashbuild, Checkers and Stuttafords and in the same year, Wiese led the company to open its first retail outlet in Scotland.
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Spar, Iceland, Checkers and the Co-Op all sold the meal but it has now been removed from the stores.
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They were also held more responsible for their copy, the beginning of an economic move to lessen the reliance on fact checkers.
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Instead of firewalls and virus checkers, the company pitches a network that monitors individual data packets, shuts off rogue computers and isolates questionable users.
The glib answer that all fact checkers are equal is simply not an acceptable defense against bending the truth.
If I wore it in public today, the T-shirt fact checkers would skin me alive.
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The EIU's price checkers were collecting information in September for this week's release.
Belichick had suddenly stopped playing checkers and turned the game into a chess match, successfully pulling off the ultimate strategic sacrifice.
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There was also a widespread dependence on computer spell-checkers, particularly among the young.
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"The market has gone from a checkers game to chess, " says Ryan.
We still need people who understand the business of publishing, fact checkers who keep people honest, and editors who can make copy sing.
But spell checkers only check that the words being used are in fact correctly spelt: they do not check that they are the correct words.
The key takeaway: fact-checkers have become a kind of legitimacy patrol, deciding when statements have crossed invisible lines of unfairness, incivility, and the boundaries of conventional wisdom.
If someone is facing a chess master, change the game board to Go, or checkers.
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It would be nice if T-shirt fact checkers eventually moved on to the blatant falsehoods printed on bumper stickers.
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Most of the games at Mind Games are variations of well-known ones, say Chinese checkers with a revolving outer ring, or chess with dice that can change how the pieces move.
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The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
Mr. ADAIR: Those taglines are really the trick that campaigns are using these days to mislead the public, I think, and try to foil fact checkers.
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