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  • n  a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

  • So last year, while George was on location with the film in Colorado, the studio recruited a professional cardsharp from Las Vegas to teach him how to cut the deck, and some .
  • At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's .
  • When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is.
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  • A Misguided Attack on Evidence-Based Investing
    A recent MarketWatch article by Brett Arends caught my attention. The premise of the article was that a balanced portfolio consisting of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds was the equivalent of handing "your grandmother's retirement savings over to a cardsharp in the hope that he might gamble with them on a riverboat casino." Pretty scary stuff.
    June 20, 2013 - U.S.News & World Report LP via Yahoo! News

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