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Incentives matter. And the incentives today are out of whack, it’s time to get Americans back to work. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Instead of playing whack-a-mole on Huawei one day, ZTE the next, Kasperky, TikTok — we need a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and mitigating these threats posed by these foreign technologies from these adversarial nations. – Mark Warner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The whole market is out of whack, we have to build more, not tax more. – Michael Fields	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there's always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this... Once it's out in the ether, it's impossible to take everything down. – Tim Squirrell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think [Sanders] saw and we all saw the downside of the Soviet system, yes, they may have had low-cost apartments, but things were very out of whack — there were food shortages, no political freedom. – Howard Seaver	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s kind of Whack-a-Mole, if you take one down, 15 more are going to go up. – Judy Rogg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we can’t do about that is this homeless camp ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ where you clean one up and they move across the street. That just doesn’t work. – Roger Millar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That was our mentality, to try to get inside of them, they like to pack it in, especially in the D-zone. They’re a really good defensive team, so if we’re able to get to the inside, get pucks in there and just kind of whack at him, get a few lucky bounces, it’ll be huge for this series. – Alex Tuch	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan, those variants are also present in other states. So our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out. – Andy Slavitt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan -- those variants are also present in other states, so our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out. – Andy Slavitt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we continue to play the game of whack-a-mole with Chinese apps that are perceived as a threat, I don't think that makes us anymore secure. – Samm Sacks	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These guys are whack jobs and the President ought to disavow them. – Mark Warner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Trump administration has taken almost like a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with these issues, because it seems that as soon as a Chinese company is in the news, all of a sudden that becomes the new target, it seems very unlikely that there is thinking going on about the longer term strategy, and much more likely that the focus instead is on this politically motivated attack on an application because it's a Chinese-owned app, even if there are real security questions. – Justin Sherman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was literally whack-a-mole. You would get the okay to spend cash when there was an incident. A reactive security program in that kind of environment is not what you're looking for. – Brian Flannery	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I can see how a 25-year-old or a millennial or someone who is social media savvy could log on for a bit, explore around, experience some of the glitches or just lack of built-out features... and I can see how people could just be turned off, and be like' Dude, this platform is whack,' and then they leave, it's also good for me because there's no competition. – Shay Rowbottom	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Were trying to let God take the lead on these things, were trying to decipher between opportunities is this what we need to do that will enhance our family ? And also to shine a light on the blessings that weve received because of the blessing giver. Because of the creator. Because of our Savior. Sometimes we get those things out of whack and they dont really go very well. Robertson continued :. – Missy Robertson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It doesn't work as well as I would expect, while the whack-a-mole game has gotten a little bit better, it still exists every single day. – Aaron Muderick	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think there's too much money and multiples have gotten out of whack. – Aileen Lee	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I came home from the hospital... and discovered a large chunk of curb under a whole whack of snow. – Calvin Hawley	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's a bit like a whack-a-mole. You solve one problem, another might emerge. – Applied Intuition	Found on CNN 4 years ago
New Jersey is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to' slam' and' whack' her, racism has no place in the world and I will not tolerate it, especially not in this district. When I saw Feel Better Doll in person, I cringed and was truly disheartened by the thought of a black child being beaten by another child or an adult for pure pleasure. To have a product depict or teach children that it is OK to hit another child, regardless of race, in order to feel good is sick. – New Jersey	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It just happened so quick, i wasnt sure. It didnt lay very flat for me. I was just trying to whack it and hope it went in. ... A crucial game. Theres still a long way to go, but a good win for us. – Josh Bailey	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't know him. He's a whack job. There's no question about it. I think he's doing a tremendous disservice to a wonderful wife. – George Conway	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I was walking into position and then just felt a whack around the side of the face, obviously theres rivalry and stuff in football but I dont think theres any place for that. – Jack Grealish	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

Incentives matter. And the incentives today are out of whack, it’s time to get Americans back to work.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of playing whack-a-mole on Huawei one day, ZTE the next, Kasperky, TikTok — we need a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and mitigating these threats posed by these foreign technologies from these adversarial nations.

– Mark Warner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole market is out of whack, we have to build more, not tax more.

– Michael Fields

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there's always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this... Once it's out in the ether, it's impossible to take everything down.

– Tim Squirrell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think [Sanders] saw and we all saw the downside of the Soviet system, yes, they may have had low-cost apartments, but things were very out of whack — there were food shortages, no political freedom.

– Howard Seaver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s kind of Whack-a-Mole, if you take one down, 15 more are going to go up.

– Judy Rogg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we can’t do about that is this homeless camp ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ where you clean one up and they move across the street. That just doesn’t work.

– Roger Millar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was our mentality, to try to get inside of them, they like to pack it in, especially in the D-zone. They’re a really good defensive team, so if we’re able to get to the inside, get pucks in there and just kind of whack at him, get a few lucky bounces, it’ll be huge for this series.

– Alex Tuch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan, those variants are also present in other states. So our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.

– Andy Slavitt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan -- those variants are also present in other states, so our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.

– Andy Slavitt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we continue to play the game of whack-a-mole with Chinese apps that are perceived as a threat, I don't think that makes us anymore secure.

– Samm Sacks

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These guys are whack jobs and the President ought to disavow them.

– Mark Warner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Trump administration has taken almost like a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with these issues, because it seems that as soon as a Chinese company is in the news, all of a sudden that becomes the new target, it seems very unlikely that there is thinking going on about the longer term strategy, and much more likely that the focus instead is on this politically motivated attack on an application because it's a Chinese-owned app, even if there are real security questions.

– Justin Sherman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was literally whack-a-mole. You would get the okay to spend cash when there was an incident. A reactive security program in that kind of environment is not what you're looking for.

– Brian Flannery

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can see how a 25-year-old or a millennial or someone who is social media savvy could log on for a bit, explore around, experience some of the glitches or just lack of built-out features... and I can see how people could just be turned off, and be like' Dude, this platform is whack,' and then they leave, it's also good for me because there's no competition.

– Shay Rowbottom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were trying to let God take the lead on these things, were trying to decipher between opportunities is this what we need to do that will enhance our family ? And also to shine a light on the blessings that weve received because of the blessing giver. Because of the creator. Because of our Savior. Sometimes we get those things out of whack and they dont really go very well. Robertson continued :.

– Missy Robertson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It doesn't work as well as I would expect, while the whack-a-mole game has gotten a little bit better, it still exists every single day.

– Aaron Muderick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think there's too much money and multiples have gotten out of whack.

– Aileen Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I came home from the hospital... and discovered a large chunk of curb under a whole whack of snow.

– Calvin Hawley

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a bit like a whack-a-mole. You solve one problem, another might emerge.

– Applied Intuition

Found on CNN
4 years ago

New Jersey is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to' slam' and' whack' her, racism has no place in the world and I will not tolerate it, especially not in this district. When I saw Feel Better Doll in person, I cringed and was truly disheartened by the thought of a black child being beaten by another child or an adult for pure pleasure. To have a product depict or teach children that it is OK to hit another child, regardless of race, in order to feel good is sick.

– New Jersey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It just happened so quick, i wasnt sure. It didnt lay very flat for me. I was just trying to whack it and hope it went in. ... A crucial game. Theres still a long way to go, but a good win for us.

– Josh Bailey

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don't know him. He's a whack job. There's no question about it. I think he's doing a tremendous disservice to a wonderful wife.

– George Conway

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I was walking into position and then just felt a whack around the side of the face, obviously theres rivalry and stuff in football but I dont think theres any place for that.

– Jack Grealish

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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