According to him, the upper classes think of slum residents as lazy, criminal elements out to swindle the resources of the city.
And the beauty about writing about the music business is that everybody is prepared to believe that there is a great rock'n'roll swindle out there.
Thanks to the Bernie Madoff swindle, investors want to see sturdier back-offices staffed by compliance types.
While he has been in office, growth and job creation have been better in Texas than in most other states (see chart).In this section The war on terror, part two Tea time in Texas The waning of Waxman No degree required The $272 billion swindle The 140,000-code question History and Harleys ReprintsYet this record was not flinty enough to ward off a primary challenge.
It believes the latest bail-out is a swindle on European taxpayers.
Foreign films have also done well in America this year, with the holidays bringing limited release alternatives such as Carlos Saura's "Tango", Claude Chabrol's comedy thriller, "Rien Ne Va Plus" (released in America as "The Swindle"), and the Berlin Film Festival favourite, "Central Station" from Brazil.Last year's "Scream 2" phenomenon upped the number of horror and science fiction flicks.
The term refers to scams in which the perpetrator uses personal contacts to swindle a specific group, such as a church congregation, a rotary club, a professional circle or an ethnic community.
No one was ever convicted for the largest stock swindle in Canadian history, though Bre-X's vice-president, John Felderhof, has been charged with insider trading.
"The things he was able to do in carrying out his swindle would never again be possible, and in that sense he may also be said to have been the last of a free-wheeling breed".
Many "English-medium" schools, offering to bridge the social divide between the anglophone elite and the "masses", are a swindle.
The duration, extent and purpose of the huge swindle at Parmalat remain to be determined.It is possible, however, to draw some tentative lessons from the affair.
