A dodgy venture to separate rainwater from sewage water, into which millions of yuan had been poured, was suspended.
Its well-regulated banks had avoided dodgy subprime ventures, he insisted.
J.P. Morgan is being investigated for possibly dodgy off-balance-sheet ventures crafted for Enron, the fallen energy giant.Rumours of bank mergers are always in the air, but now they are latching quickly on to wounded targets.
When I put it to him that many saw these ventures as dodgy attempts to create magic money, he didn't argue with those descriptions.
As for undertaking a new venture in a dodgy economy, "as we've reported for the last couple of quarters, our business is very good," Ms. Gavales said.
To create this preserve, Will amasses great tracts of land whose ownership is precariously perched on dodgy deals and promissory notes, and eventually the entire venture collapses.Stuffed like a taxidermy project with lifeless details scooped from the books listed in the Author's Note (for example, "Cherokee Dance and Drama"), "Thirteen Moons" is a rather heavy volume to throw across the room.
Extrapolations from dodgy statistics to pie-in-the-sky optimism are familiar to every venture capitalist who has ever curled a lip over a business plan.
The most common incidence of scamming on Apple's latest social venture, Ping, is the offering of free iPhones from a dodgy URL.
The latest venture from Danish state broadcaster DR uses the post-crash economy to explore dodgy dealings in the green energy industry.
For me, the point of Marlowe, both Chandler's and mine, is precisely that he is not a tough guy, however much he may have to pretend to be, in order to keep his end up and head down, in the world of hoodlums, dodgy policemen and femmes fatales at the end of those mean streets that he must venture down.
