If they were, they would have stockpiled all the available aces, offered them contracts twice what anyone else offered, immediately hiked ticket prices and found a cute celebrity girlfriend for one of its reputationally challenged players.
"When the House of Representatives voted on the Ryan budget, all but four Republicans voted in favor of immediately hiking seniors' medical expenses.
One in five landlords, sentient hellbeasts sent from the gods to wear mum jeans and punish us for our crimes on earth by taking three to six months to replace a defective boiler and then immediately hiking the rent up afterwards, are apparently too embarrassed to admit they are landlords to other, non-lizard persons.
John Kaehny of Transportation Alternatives, a watchdog group, said, "The universal consensus among people who follow this is that there will be a fare hike immediately after the gubernatorial election".
Dr Alice Williamson, a postdoctoral teaching fellow with the university's school of chemistry, said she could not stop dwelling on the story of Shkreli, who acquired Daraprim last year through his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, and almost immediately and exorbitantly hiked the price.
This will mean the "holiday" will be over, and everyone will get hit with a small tax hike beginning immediately.
They hope to see the income tax hike repealed immediately though, at the same time, some state political insiders suspect the temporary increase may become permanent, as the Illinois Statehouse News reported.
Every time I walk through my yard or take a hike I immediately check my skin and Lola's fur and skin for ticks (and I often find a couple on both of us!).
As we ascended, we were almost immediately passed by a hiking club — 15 lithe men and women in the black hiking pants favored there, made from panels of high-tech-looking fabric.
Hong Kong's top central banker, who was obliged to immediately match the Fed's hike under the Chinese-run city's peg to the US dollar, said he expected only a modest outflow of capital as a result of the Fed's move.
