Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Bar Association gave their early approval to the program, they were unaware of the implications legal aid for the poor had for the American legal system. They supported a limited program whereby the impoverished would receive free counsel for individual problems such as disputes with landlords, consumer fraud cases and divorce suits...
...that Detroit is representative of the type of case that will suffer without access to the center's resources. "There will be a large number of cases in which back-up centers won't be missed," Flannery explains. "These are the run-of-the-mill cases, such as consumer fraud and welfare cases. But there are many cases that require resources in terms of personnel and time available. Many local offices are avalanched and aren't well-equipped to undertake more reform-oriented cases. These type of cases will suffer. And that's the object of the deletion by Congress...
...polished as Henning is, The Magic Show's success lies not with the star but with ourselves. In an epoch of uncertainty, people need a fraud they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean...
...together a program to provide county residents with civil as well as criminal remedies in consumer-fraud cases...
...sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend arguments for fraud and betrayal. Tiger Brown's conception of honor is simply his right to a glittering uniform...