| 1. | Clearly, the stakes in this confidence game can be extremely high.
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| 2. | Confidence games, after all, are seductions that operate on promises of delayed gratification.
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| 3. | This is a bipartisan confidence game that these states perpetrate every four years.
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| 4. | A kid wants to learn the confidence game from a veteran con man.
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| 5. | He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or a confidence game.
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| 6. | "Enron's political involvement was a cover for their confidence game,"
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| 7. | A David Mamet film about an elaborate confidence game.
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| 8. | The film centers on an elaborate confidence game.
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| 9. | In fact, the older I get, the more everything in the world looks like a confidence game.
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| 10. | Leave it to David Mamet to make a game of it _ a confidence game, that is.
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