Word: bilked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read the liberal policy analysts, it quickly becomes clear that getting young and healthy people to pay more in premiums than they will spend on medical expenses is the point of forcing them to buy insurance. Which is it? In aggregate, are we trying to rescue the uninsured or bilk them? Is reform something we are doing for them or to them? (See 10 players in health care reform...
...Year is 1932, and Diego, 17, a Mexican orphan, has been adopted by a gang of Coney Island, N.Y., con artists. He has been rechristened Ondoo by his mentors and trained to incant Hindu mumbo jumbo during the séances they stage to bilk millionaires on Long Island's Gold Coast. But their scams turn sour when a young girl goes missing, leaving a trail that leads to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the dark chapter of its history that today's gene scientists don't like to talk about. Ford, who teaches literature at a New Jersey community college...
...last count—have been denied advance press screenings. This can only mean one thing: studios are ashamed of the rubbish they’re foisting off as entertainment. Just not ashamed enough to stop filming. It’s likely that the studios hope to bilk a few extra dollars from unsuspecting moviegoers by evading the press; by the time critics are able to turn their acid pens on Hollywood’s latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win…maybe. Savvy cineastes...
...Harvard smells like money, and with $25 billion in the bank, the University can’t help but agree. Still, it’s not just the size of the endowment that matters—it’s what the Harvard diploma can help us kids bilk from outside donors. Grant opportunities are now centrally listed at www.funding.fas.harvard.edu, so go forth and get to lootin?...
...spree of high-profile fraud prosecutions. Spitzer's experts contacted the FBI, and after Minkow agreed to wear a wire and record phone conversations with the purported scam artists as they solicited new money, the agency verified that the suspects were using an offshore shell company to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by pledging annual profits of more than 38% and an eight-year rate of return in excess of 1,000%. TIME has confirmed that the FBI is likely to move in on the fraudsters soon...