Richard Curtis of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who has studied the retail market for drugs there, has found that customers in the smart areas of midtown and lower Manhattan tend not to travel to the shadier areas of Harlem or Washington Heights to buy drugs, even though they would save money if they did.Recruiting employees appears to be easy.
The shadier outfits use a complicated system of sub-contracting to avoid paying insurance fees.
Likewise, most countries have parties that represent the interests of big business and if not, they often suffer from a much shadier kind of influence-peddling.
The agreement with Switzerland would close this channel, another reason why Social Democrats dislike it.Critics of the agreement also claim that much of the dodgy money in Switzerland is already leaving for shadier trusts in other tax havens such as Singapore thus undermining the agreement before it even becomes law.
Until recently, the profits of the drugs business were restricted to a shadier class of entrepreneur.
Otherwise, he risks being reduced to relying on some of his own party's shadier governors to marshal their local congressmen and even that might not be enough to approve reforms.
His ideological stance has earned him an unusual kind of respect among some citizens of the country he gave up, as well as the nickname "The People's Rooney" (in reference to the star England footballer, Wayne Rooney).But while this nascent hero with 63 goals in 160 appearances for his club is winning admiration for his exploits, Chongryon itself has a shadier history.
The police have launched a new investigation into a bottled-water business they are now running out of the old brewery, involving another fast-growing, but even shadier, area of Canada's economy the exploitation of temporary foreign workers.Among the staff at the factory, police found 11 Filipinos, lured to Canada with the promise of jobs paying up to C$23 an hour.
After all, if they can't be sure of trusty old Shell, how can they believe smaller, perhaps shadier, operators?The most ironic suggestion now making the rounds is that the world's biggest oil companies should permit independent verification of reserves by outside consultants.
The temptation which all claim to be resisting is to relax their rules and pitch loans to those at the shadier end of the credit spectrum.
The ground surface and the vegetation on southern slopes are quickly warmed, paradoxically creating a more stressful environment for plants than exists on the shadier, cooler northern slopes.
