The minigames in Mario Party 4 are short, unrelated events with a specified objective that the players must attempt to meet to earn coins as a reward.

* September 5 – A bomb exploded in the wine bar / delicatessen on Number 96, in an attempt to shake up the cast and earn back lost viewers

Because of this the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal.

Peter commits himself to spending the summer with Houghton in an attempt to earn the $ 45, 000 necessary to rebuild his house.

* 20-point special: A correct attempt at a 20-point special will earn 20 points.

The team had fallen into debt after team executive Chuck Sullivan funded the Jackson Victory Tour, in an attempt earn more profit for the team.

Solutions to the Paradox attempt to derive solutions that are more in line with solutions from the Cournot model of competition, where two firms in a market earn positive profits that lie somewhere between the perfectly competitive and monopoly levels.

Peter LaFleur ( Vaughn ), the owner of the smaller gym, has defaulted on his mortgage and enters a dodgeball tournament in an attempt to earn the money necessary to prevent his gym from being purchased by Globo-Gym.

However, after a series of bad investments he was left in a dire financial situation, and he began to siphon money out of his clients ' accounts in an attempt to earn lost money back.

In many cases they will attempt to come up with something interesting to further qualify the field, for example a slower class being allowed to earn a spot in the final 16, but in every case the idea is to find a full class of at least 16 cars in which each car is running within a tenth to 2 tenths of a second of each other.

Neale joined Dundee on trial on Monday 23 June and travelled to Malta with the Dundee squad in an attempt to earn a deal at Dens Park.

In December he joined Wrexham on trial in an attempt to earn a professional contract with the North Wales club.

* A beauty contest game called Miss Bimbo is an online game in which players attempt to use virtual characters to win contest, earn IQ points and impress virtual boys, through makeovers, clothing, exercise and the purchase of operations such as facelifts and breast implants.

In 1910 Dingler's first attempt to earn a Habilitation failed.

However, he was unsuccessful in his attempt to earn a contract at Swansea, and subsequently requested a trial at League Two side Stevenage in August 2010.

") Suttree attempts to help Harrogate once he is released from the work camp, but this task proves to be in vain as Harrogate sets off on a series of misadventures, including using poisoned meat and a slingshot to kill bats (" flitter-mice " as Harrogate calls them ) to earn a bounty on them, and using dynamite to attempt to tunnel underneath the city.

The project was entitled Firewind, and was used as a showcase for Gus ' guitar skills in an attempt to earn a professional recording deal.

When the band reformed in 2006, she refused to join, calling the reunion an attempt to " earn cash to pay for geriatry ".

The story is about a hapless fishtank cleaner who goes into business as a male prostitute in an attempt to earn enough money to repair damage he caused while house-sitting.

The title refers both to the album's all-black cover design and to Prince's attempt to earn back his credibility among the black pop audience.

The Dragoons ' Major, Colonel, and Duke attempt to earn their partners ' love through an effort to convert to the principles of aestheticism (" It's clear that mediaeval art ").

The end result of economic determinism in this view is both economism ( a narrow focus on how people earn their livelihood ) and economic reductionism ( the attempt to reduce a complex social reality to one factor economic such that this one factor causes all other aspects of society ).

This attempt was fast enough to bump Roger Yasukawa and put Lazier 32nd on the grid and earn them a $ 50, 000 bonus for being the last driver to make a successful qualifying attempt.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Feral pigs, foxes, cats and rabbits are also imported animals that degrade the environment, so time and money is spent eradicating them in an attempt to help protect fragile rangelands.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

He returned again to Britain, in what later biographer Philip Heselton speculated might have been an unsuccessful attempt to ask his father for money.

Instead, the Reichsgut was increasingly pawned to local dukes, sometimes to raise money for the Empire, but more frequently to reward faithful duty or as an attempt to establish control over the dukes.

Having a family to support motivated Schliemann to attempt to make more money.

In an attempt to prevent dirty money from entering the US financial system in the first place, the United States Congress passed a series of laws, starting in 1970, collectively known as the Bank Secrecy Act.

In Full Employment and Free Trade ( 1948 ) Polanyi analyses the way in which money circulates around an economy, and in a monetarist analysis that according to Paul Craig Roberts was thirty years ahead of its time, he argues that a free market economy should not be left to be wholly self-adjusting, a central bank should attempt to moderate economic booms / busts via a strict / loose monetary policy.

This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that he may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than he would by betting straightforwardly.

There is little risk that the village committee will attempt to impose a bad contract on the farmers, since this would reduce the amount of money the village committee receives.

He was mentioned in the story " A Christmas for Shacktown " ( 1952 ) by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

The report of the committee also found that the KCIA planned to grant money to American universities in order to attempt to influence them for political purposes.

However, the first American attempt at world's fair in 1876 in Philadelphia, though hugely successful in attendance, lost money.

Examples include the blank map, the Bellman's contradictory navigational orders, the Baker's name-loss and failure to settle on one replacement-name, his failing to mention his luggage, his attempt to communicate in the wrong languages, the Banker's absurd offer to protect the Beaver from being butchered by insuring it against fire and hail, the Butcher's self-nullifying arithmetical manipulations, the Court officers ' unwillingness to fulfil their lawful obligations, the Banker's ridiculous attempt to bribe a predatory beast with money, and his subsequent aphasia.

They will extract money from the victims when they attempt to reserve their accommodations in a non-existent hotel.

For instance, some measures count only goods and services that are exchanged for money, excluding bartered goods, while other measures may attempt to include bartered goods by imputing monetary values to them.

Raeder was keenly aware that the Army was the senior service and that many in Germany took the view that because the great High Seas Fleet that Tirpitz had built had done almost nothing in World War I that it would be a waste of money and time to attempt to rebuilt Tirpitz's fleet.

Ian Johnson disputes the theory that Li made any serious money from Falun Gong, and noted that during the period of Falun Gong's greatest book sales in China, Li Hongzhi did not receive royalties because all publications were bootleg ( the texts having been banned by the authorities in 1996 in an attempt to curb the practice's growth ).

The original act was sponsored by Hoover in an attempt to stop the downward spiral of crop prices by seeking to buy, sell and store agricultural surpluses or by generously lending money to farm organizations.

The bookmaker does not generally attempt to make money from the bets themselves, but rather by acting as a market maker and profiting from the event regardless of the outcome.

The Pirates do not plunder their targets due to limitations in the game ; the player, however, is allowed to board ships, and may from there steal money, cargo, fuel, or ammunition, or attempt to capture the ship for use as their own or as an escort.

The fake demonstration was created in an attempt by the company to raise money to finish their product, but they could not.

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).

This was in part an attempt by Van Vliet to become a more appealing commercial proposition as the band had made virtually no money during the previous two years — at the time of recording, the band members were subsisting on welfare food handouts and remittances from their parents.