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The New York Times says his defection to the West in 1990 helped topple Albania's Communist regime.
However, both are just certain regions within a larger universe of 24 possibilities in which various other types of symmetric games will be encountered [ 4 ] . These other undefined regions all represent different potential games so the whole is best described as a market, since different individuals meeting each other have different payoff matrices - or values - for tradable commodities (obtained from cooperation or defection) [ 17 28 ] . Prices change according to the relative value to the "buyer" and "investor" and, since these vary, the interactions between members of any one population can move dynamically around the phase space, sometimes in and out of special areas such as those defined as the Prisoner's Dilemma.
He's turning 50 and just returned to the former Soviet Union for the first time since his 1974 defection.
The terrific Times biz-section story on the ad industry's all-too-sudden, profit-motivated defection to the anti-smoking camp quotes an advertising executive named Alex Bogusky.
As often happens in campaigns, Brown suffered an embarrassing defection last month, when writer Walter Kirn quit and told the press he had been saddled with "celebrity profile assignments."