Sentences with phrase «questionable practices»

Many families paid a heavy price because of questionable practices that led to last decade's housing crash.

But more than 70 percent of the scientists stated they would be less likely to engage in questionable practices now that they've become aware of the problems they cause.

Best practice: If you believe a business is engaging in ethically questionable practices, don't discuss it on social media.

Protect career counseling clients by educating them about questionable practices that are advertised under the guise of «career counseling» or «career marketing» services.

This company is known for questionable practices under the guise of assistance.

I'd rather throw money at a christian company with slightly questionable practices than buy ugly clothes for more at some other store.

Their extremely questionable practices have earned them a poor reputation at the hospital.

I meant to say «innovative and sometimes questionable practices».

Yet questionable practices continue in the debt relief industry.

Reached at his Connecticut home, O'Connor, who is using vacation time during a leave of absence, said he complained to the Inspector General about the Public Integrity Commission and looks forward to being contacted about his allegations of questionable practices by Commission Executive Director Barry Ginsberg.

There seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month * by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

«I think in Michael Grimm's case, we saw a pattern of questionable practices over a long period of time, and it played out.

This is the mindset that has delivered phony bank accounts at Wells Fargo and other highly questionable practices by the largest and riskiest financial firms.

They did a lot of questionable practices such as processed payments incorrectly, deceived private student loan borrowers about requirements to release their cosigner from the loan, illegally cheated many struggling borrowers out of their rights to lower payments which caused them to overpay for their student loans and created obstacles to repayment by providing wrong information.

Around this time, federal investigators reportedly began looking into questionable practices of how the Cuomo administration awarded third - party developer contracts, which some insiders suggest also delayed the project.)

Christian Filipina founder Peter Christopher was interviewed by the BBC's Fiona Walker to learn how he has gained its reputation for integrity in spite of questionable practices at other dating sites in the industry.

US prosecutors were dealt another blow in their efforts to tame questionable practices used by bond traders.

A similar notice was earlier sent to Cambridge Analytica over media reports about questionable practices attributed to the UK - based firm in their efforts to influence elections by harvesting data of Facebook users.

He added that it's received attention in part for who it benefited, but added: «We did not need this incident to bring to light that in a fast evolving world of technological data collection, there are already many questionable practices going on.»

Caveat emptor: For every specialist who can help you reorganize your site, there's a firm that employs questionable practices that could actually cause Google to demote you, while others perform only basic Web design services that you could probably do yourself.

A former Cantor Fitzgerald LP managing director was cleared of charges that he defrauded customers by lying about prices of mortgage - backed securities, dealing federal prosecutors another blow in their efforts to tame questionable practices used by bond traders.

Highly questionable practices go either unremarked upon or purposefully ignored by the Twitter bubble.

With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable practices around charter review.

At the same time, despite any hype that may accompany it or questionable practices on the part of sales and marketing people, technical innovators report that many barriers to entry have fallen, that software has advanced rapidly, as have database management improvements, As such, what was not possible even a few years ago now is and the pattern continues.

We don't expect the bishops to mount the barricades over every morally questionable practice of our government.

Various questionable practices of the Success Academy Charter School network, and the Charter school movement more generally, went unreported.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky chaired a key oversight committee that looked at state economic development projects and reformed questionable practices in previous administrations.

We've all heard about questionable practices carried out by large corporations, and Dow and Monsanto often make the list of classically «evil» offenders, like Enron, or Philip Morris, or Build - A-Bear Workshop.

A Science investigation has uncovered a smorgasbord of questionable practices including paying for author's slots on papers written by other scientists and buying papers from online brokers.

A custom writing service never uses amateur writers; it never allows questionable practices of just re-writing or «spinning» previously written works; and it does not tolerate poor research and writing that does not meet the highest standards.

Attention should be brought to the Justice Department to show that publishers are engaging in questionable practices involving the licensing of digital content to libraries.

Evidently anticipating Sunday's release of the Paradise Papers, the CRA promised to do more should new details of questionable practices emerge.

However, unscrupulous operations utilize questionable practices that not only skirt (and sometimes exceed) legality.

And while associations like Consumers» Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, have long spoken out against some of the industry's most questionable practices, nothing has changed much in at least ten years.

Some unscrupulous credit repair companies also implement questionable practices for their clients.

Alongside this habit of using language to mystify questionable practices sits an incarnation of political doublespeak which seeks to obscure the real nature of a thing by titling it as its complete opposite.

Tamino, in his continuing effort to bring every one of Mann's questionable practices back into the light of day, has stumbled into the treeline11.dat series, which he proclaims triumphally in his most recent post as having a hockey stick shape.

With trademark flamboyancy, Sheilas» then commit the statistically questionable practice of multiplying the results of a survey of several hundred women to the total population of licensed female drivers in Britain to conclude that:

Doing this is a big mistake and only justifies this legally questionable practice.

The SEC is conducting an investigation over certain questionable practices in the cryptocurrency industry which will likely lead to a tightening of regulations

Each of the following questionable practices may be a violation of RESPA, so RE-Insider strongly suggests avoiding all of them if you want to protect your real estate license.

Thanks to questionable practices such as paying women for their eggs, the group was able to collect more than 2000 oocytes for its research (ScienceNOW, 12 May 2006).

«I think in Michael Grimm's case we saw a pattern of questionable practices over a long period of time, and it played out,» de Blasio said at City Hall on Thursday.

New York's Gagosian Gallery and Jeff Koons were sued by a collector who accused gallery founder Larry Gagosian and the artist of scheming to exploit demand for his works and using «inappropriate and highly questionable practices» to fund extravagant lifestyles.