We need only watch an artist warble painfully through the dreaded SNL "live" music segment (can we ever forget poor Ashlee Simpson?), listen to the pre-enhanced recordings of many an artist, or make note that auto-tune is rigged even for live performances, to realize just how much smoke, mirrors and machinery go into creating the music that sells and the stars that succeed.
(9) Enter teacher evaluations based on student performance on these rigged tests, and you begin to understand what standardized testing is really about -- providing the "legal" basis for evaluating teachers as the first stage in firing them.
Her performances are cleverly rigged to satisfy the punters.
After a quick chat with friends, Jorgensen gets his 29er, a high-performance 14.4-foot skiff, rigged and clear Mylar sails up, double checks the rigging — it's good.
There is no perfect system, but a rigged primary system that favors swing state performance will make more sense to voters -- and it will actually work better for political parties -- than the current rigged system.
By contrast, liberal scholars, such as Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner and Steven Sestanovich, tie Russia's expansionism to domestic origins: trying to distract Russians from their dissatisfaction with rigged elections, corruption and, more recently, declining economic performance.
When it gets dark, the float stops and turns into a gas-lit stage rigged with pyrotechnics and seating for live musical performances.
From the very start, Trump has claimed that his lagging poll performance had more to do with a rigged system than, you know, his actually losing.
In the performance, once the group began to play, a rigged projection mapping system produced holographic light presented in a variety of geometric forms, synchronized alongside electronic glitch and sub-bass. .
In 2007, Mr. Buffett showed a video of himself winning a rigged one-on-one game against LeBron James, while last year, he showed a taped performance by the cast of NBC's "The Office".
