Word: flimflamming
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...much as 50% of income from wages and 70% of earnings on interest and dividends, deaden incentives to work, save, invest and take risks. The result: instead of using their savings for productive investments, too many people seek tax shelters and pour their money into "gold, baubles, flimflam films and real estate." High taxes are responsible for the U.S.'s While poor preparing the productivity growth because Administration's so economic policy much money has gone into unnecessary investments...
Where do lawyers get off sneering at the competence of laymen? Lawyers' competence is too often reserved for wheeling, dealing and flimflam rather than law and justice. People should not be merely fair game for the legal profession to prey...
...Soviets evidently tried to flimflam the pole vault as well, though to little avail. According to Western vaulters, Soviet judges improperly raised their flags to help countrymen gauge the wind. Adriaan Paulen, president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) detected some hanky-panky in this one, not by the officials but by a Soviet vaulter, who was evicted for giving hand signals to a teammate. Groused Swedish Vaulter Miro Zalar, 23: "Everybody knows they are cheating...
...headed by a Pakistani. The first Saudi to hold the post, Qoreishi is a graduate of U.S.C., but he had no previous banking experience. Western diplomats who deal with them say the Saudis fear that if they go into long-term investments they will be conned by fast-talking flimflam artists. Richard Erb, an economist who once watched Saudi policy for the U.S. Treasury, adds that the Saudis will not buy gold because they are afraid of being seen as "dumb Arabs" who do not know what else to do with then" wealth...
...others, especially young couples who can't buy a place of their own, cannot do that." That kind of pitch, partly true and partly flimflam, has made Jarvis a national folk hero to millions of beleaguered taxpayers...