Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's a scam people would have cooperated with, but you had to work so hard to flunk out," said Kenneth M. Glazier '69, who was chair of the student-faculty advisory council. "If all you were trying to do was stay in College, there were always plenty of courses you could take to do that...
...appraisal? "Smart! Innovative! Fine performances all around! A scam...
...narrator, then, is real -- whatever that might mean in a work of fiction -- but is the other Philip Roth some sort of con man or scam artist or lunatic exploiting a reputation not his own? Or might it be the other way around? Even to frame such a question is to play and plunge helplessly into Roth's game...
Overseas job agencies deny any wrongdoing, saying they make no promises. "Roblan emphatically does not guarantee jobs," says Roblan's attorney Andrew Cove. Universal Placement Inc., one of the firms sued by Florida, says it provides an honest resume and referral service and claims that job-scam artists are hurting legitimate companies. "We all get painted with the same black brush as companies that run job scams," says Jack Thav, the company's executive vice president...
...leery of promises that he would have a job in Cancun, Mexico, in three months. When he could find no complaints on file with the Better Business Bureau, he and a friend sent a $295 joint fee. All they got for it was the runaround. "I figured it was scam, but I took a chance," says Deaver with a sigh. "The moral is, of course, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably...