Word: defraud
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...going; in 1975 the British government spent millions to buy 95% of the company's stock and rescue it from bankruptcy. Also like the American firm, British Leyland depends heavily on its export business. The Daily Mail charged that the firm has been "paying bribes and conspiring to defraud foreign governments on a massive scale in a desperate effort to win overseas orders...
Magee said his firm "offers information for everybody and anybody," and requires customers to sign a statement that they will not use the research results to defraud any college or university...
...minutes, and to the triumphant strains of Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Ewa stuffs her illegitimate child down an outhouse hole, pull a love-sick count by the nose all the way to Paris, and finally succumbs to a shifty-looking criminal who uses her charms to defraud the hapless count. "Isn't this going too far? we begin to wonder...
...year when the biggest story to hit the papers dealt with a guy who gets canned for cooking some vegetables too early, or some guy who gets to be president of a major University by holding up a can of vegetables, or when some vegetable and his wife defraud Harvard Law School, or, indeed, when a bunch of wilting females decide to revert to prehistory by forming a new finals club, you know the Revolution just isn't getting any closer. It's enough to make a vegetarian cringe. Even the Pusey Library's gone underground...Well, maybe things...
...perhaps not so usual. There's something decidedly peculiar about a comic opera in which no one's final happiness is convincing. Of the three marriages in the show, two spring from coercion, and the third--the wedding of Fairfax and Elsie--originates as a strategem to defraud an undeserving kinsman, proceeds only through bribery of the bride and, most importantly, culminates in the rejection and desolation of two abundantly worthy suitors...