Sentences with phrase «dubious practices at»

As attorney general from 1999 to 2006, he earned the moniker the «Sheriff of Wall Street» for going after dubious practices at mortgage lenders and big banks.

«a repudiation of the way [Gov. Cuomo's] prized upstate economic development programs were managed» — have sparked calls not just to scrap the dubious practice at the heart of the scandal (channeling hundreds of millions of public dollars through «private,» state - created nonprofits) but also to rein in or rethink New York's aggressive business subsidization practices.

Not exact matches

I was taking aim at them as a company, engaged in what I feel are dubious marketing practices, not their customers.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

At the high - school level, recent years have seen the spread of a dubious practice known as «credit recovery,» whereby young people who fail to complete required courses may retrieve the missing credits by taking online courses and kindred options that may or may not be equivalent in rigor and content to the ordinary courses that they finessed or flunked.

I'm very dubious about the value of this as a business practice or a negotiating tool, but that at least has context.

Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction.

A few eyebrows were raised at the dubious practice of using a press release to announce scientific findings.

Despite your three years of expensive legal education, in other words, you are basically a complete novice at everything to do with starting a practice, and a dubious value proposition.

Try also to avoid the common badges of lawyer greed like dubious billing practices - the kind of stuff that can get your firm a real bad name if it leaks to the press, as per David Giacalone at f / k / a.