The movie gets in its digs at unscrupulous investors who are willing to pay more than a million pounds for the cask.
Veronica Atkins, Dr. Atkins's widow, issued a statement yesterday expressing her horror at "unscrupulous individuals" who "continue to twist and pervert the truth".
His most recent Inspector Rebus novel, "Fleshmarket Alley," wrestled with issues of race and illegal immigration, taking an unsettling look at unscrupulous employers, government detention centers and brutal housing projects.
And new songs You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty (perhaps the plea "Show me the money" is aimed at unscrupulous financiers) and Is It In You? are as resplendent as any of their hits.
In a proposal aimed at unscrupulous debt collectors, the City Council is considering legislation that would require process servers to use global positioning systems to show that they have actually visited consumers' homes or workplaces to deliver notices of collection proceedings.
The object is to knock the ball through 5-foot-high goalposts, a height restriction aimed at "unscrupulous players such as myself," says Wozniak, who helped Ko and others devise the game's rules.
