Word: scammed
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...Priscilla Parker (Kevin ; Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who are lured away from their narrow suburban patterns of getting and spending, both financial and sexual. The seducer is their next-door neighbor, Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey), abetted by his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). First Eddy masterminds an insurance scam to help the Parkers out of credit-card debt. Next he encourages a spot of highly improbable wife swapping. Can violent crimes -- and false accusations leveled at poor, increasingly bedeviled Richard -- be far behind...
...they denied the 17-year-old her crown and named the runner-up, pert and clean-cut Elizabeth Weld, as winner. Last week Eau Claire District superintendent Lee Hansen exposed a plot by principal Charles Zielin and three assistant principals to burn the original ballots and cover up their scam. Hansen announced disciplinary actions against the four administrators and a teacher who came forward. "In trying to protect the traditional image of Memorial High School," said Hansen, "these individuals trampled over . . . the democratic process...
...salesmen have to believe that listening implies complicity -- that the moment a mark is seated across the living room, or has just picked up a phone, he has declared himself a co-conspirator in the scam. Ace huckster Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) knows this better than anyone else. Lately, Ricky has been the "closer," the high man on the company's totem pole. And Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon) is the Loman. Vending his unplowed dreams, Shelley woos like a Don Juan of property values. But when the courtship is over or aborted, he looks old, depleted, desperate. He sweats...
Sometimes a scam becomes too successful for its own good. So it was in the case of about 100 people -- including 82 pharmacists and a doctor -- arrested last week in 50 cities. Two of the conspirators had complained, in a phone call that was wiretapped, that they were running out of places to stash all the illicit cash they were taking in. With such evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices...
...Harvard extensive monies for services which are not being rendered. But in a more human sense, I am a student at a University which I trust to spend my tuition money to best educate me. If there were unlimited resources, I would not begrudge grad students the chance to scam Harvard for free food and housing. But that scam comes at a sacrifice--a sacrifice borne by undergraduates...