The masters of financial prestidigitation on the Senate and House appropriations committees raised their game to new levels in recent days, manipulating the defense and intelligence budgets to pay for wasteful weapons programs.
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Giambi is also a first-time Yankee, but he is no virgin to what so often looks like pinstriped prestidigitation that makes fallen Yankee opponents want to stick pins in their eyes.
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The trick in drafting one would be to subject the Americans to some sort of accountability without emasculating their authority _ an exercise that could require no less prestidigitation than the original prewar resolution.
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The cups and balls is the epitome of all magic tricks, because it incorporates a plethora of magical sleights integrating the gamut of sleight of hand techniques used in the art of prestidigitation.
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Through a bit of congressional prestidigitation, $ 1 million for a Vietnam veterans museum in Rep . Sidney Yates'district in Chicago was shifted from the Defense Department bill to the Interior Department measure.
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Holden displays a preternatural breadth of knowledge and skills & mdash; paleontology, archaeology, linguistics, law, technical drawing, geology, chemistry, prestidigitation, and philosophy, to name a few.
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Billed as a speech that would display Cellucci's honest, heartfelt, plain-spoken values, his speech instead seemed more a political presentation, complete with political prestidigitation, than a sincere policy prescription.
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Learn the Art of Magic ( Broderbund, 800-521-6263 or 415-382-4400; Mac and Windows CD-ROM, $ 35 street; ages 8 to 12 ) focuses more on presentation than prestidigitation.
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This weekend, however, he is still being billed as " Avner the Eccentric " at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton, Mass ., where he will perform his rare blend of prestidigitation and buffoonery.
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The latest act of prestidigitation from Don King _ has he joined O . J .'s defense team yet ? _ should not only insult us Only in Americans, but make us wonder if there are no limits for these WWF-type hypefests.
