Word: scam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nowhere has such a morally destructive scam by self-interested scientists been permitted," Thomas says. "$7.35 billion is being spent on AIDS research and education based on the HIV hypothesis. These dollars should not be taken from the taxpayers...
...Social Security is a pyramid scam. If anyone other than the Federal Government were running it, it would be called illegal...
...turns out, Closing Time (Simon & Schuster; 464 pages; $24) will disappoint both camps. It is neither a triumphant replay nor a crass commercial scam but rather an alternately appealing and annoying bag of mostly old tricks...
...little about. Scandal struck soon after the deal was completed when former Kidder merger whiz Martin Siegel pleaded guilty to illegal stock trading and tax evasion in a case that broke open Wall Street's most notorious insider- trading ring. This year Kidder has witnessed not only another huge scam but a swift run-up in interest rates that has battered the firm's portfolio of mortgage-backed securities; the drubbing could mean more than $500 million in losses for the ailing brokerage house, according to an outside estimate...
...direct marketer Benjamin D. Suarez $64 in court costs -- and to notify Suarez at least 48 hours before Meeks pens any stories about the businessman. Suarez had launched the lawsuit on March 22 after Meeks wrote in his Internet newsletter, Cyberwire Dispatch, that a Suarez-run promotion was a scam...