Currently, leads are not penalized for inflating the prospects of a project or for producing a low-quality due diligence report.
The scientists exercised care not to inflate the results or prospects of the search for life beyond Earth.
The suit contends, among other things, that the company misrepresented the health of the operations and future prospects to inflate the price of the stock.
The alternative view is that the stockmarket bubble also created an economic bubble as the surge in share prices and inflated expectations about future prospects encouraged economic excess in the shape of over-investment, over-borrowing and a collapse in savings.
What could be more shameful, for a serious writer, than to admit that the sails of his or her inspiration can only be inflated by the prospect of success in the annual spin of a roulette wheel described (by the croupiers) as "most important literary award in the English-speaking world".
But researcher Ashkan Soltani, writing in the Wall Street Journal, argued that inflating the numbers in this way raises the prospect of "like fraud".
Driscoll expects the new items, along with inflating retail prices, to benefit the company's long-term prospects.
The firms inflated stock prices by promoting securities to unsuspecting investors, usually by misrepresenting a company's prospects.
A former head of the commodities trading desk at the banking unit of Citigroup pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to inflate trading profit by as much as $20 million to improve his job performance and bonus prospects, prosecutors said.
The companies variously claim to have huge car inventories, hot mining prospects, technological breakthroughs, medical miracles, valuable real estate and other exciting assets, which often are inflated in value or nonexistent.
The trick was to inflate a common, everyday condition to the level of pathology, which, if not attended to, could blight one's prospects for personal happiness and success.
