The phrase
"shady business" refers to activities or dealings that are dishonest, unethical, or possibly illegal. It suggests that something is suspicious or not trustworthy.
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While in town, they learn
of shady business considering their late mother's ranch, as well as the murder of their father a few years prior.
The goal is to protect consumers
from shady business people, no different than consumer protection in any other industry.
While encryption is vital to preserving privacy, there are people who will exploit tough - to - crack communications to
conduct shady business.
We are always at risk and we are without adequate protection from often
very shady business operators and a system suffering from a lack of oversight, poor regulations and no enforcement.
Dating online used to be considered a risky and
shady business where people lied about their age and were embarrassed to own up to it.
When presenting the report Garret Tankosic - Kelly, Principal of SEE Change Net, stated, «We are concerned that environmental and social concerns are being discounted and deadlines postponed because of
shady business dealings amongst high level decision makers in the power sector.»
Now, to be sure $ 223 million is considerable but it is important to note that just about every case they cite involves an individual engaged
in shady business practices — fiddling with the books, filing fallacious enrollment documents, etc..
They stood by this “ business practice, ” which I view as wholly unethical, and deem them as an untrustworthy dealership
with shady business practices.
These types of companies have been in the news
for shady business practices like illegal repossession and bating customers into loans with extremely high interest rates.
While Rockefeller is accused of using
shady business tactics to wipe competitors off the map, over his lifetime he donated $ 500 million to philanthropic causes (which he was inspired to do by Carnegie).
Computer chipmaker Qualcomm, best known for their Snapdragon processors used in Android phones and now some laptops, is on the EU's naughty list for reportedly paying Apple to exclusively use their chips in iPhones and other devices, along with some
other shady business practices.
Facebook will pay for a forensic audit of Cambridge Analytica's systems over alleged misuse of social networking data, amid a new report that claims executives at the data company
used shady business practices.
On Yelp's efforts to combat fake reviews:
Certainly shady businesses or «reputation management» firms do sometimes try to buy reviews.
The advantage of this hybrid - model over traditional exchanges, Byrne says, is lower cost, transparency from a distributed ledger, and
less shady business.
Some of the Christian heroes appear more heroic than Christian: Oskar Schindler was a German Catholic businessman of «
somewhat shady business dealings» whose Cracow factory became an asylum for Jews.
,» and the story in the newspaper speculated that Stark had several enemies as a result of his
allegedly shady business dealings and record as a landlord.
Although women will welcome this as a shield against obscene calls, so will
shady businesses which do not want to answer calls from customers or creditors with legitimate complaints or queries.
It might have received a lot of bashing from the media because of Square Enix's
shady business antics, but that doesn't change the fact that Tomb Raider provides a tight gameplay experience with unmatched immersion.
Yesterday we discussed The Wall Street Journal's intriguing stories on Pang, who has been accused of
several shady business dealings, including setting up a Ponzi scheme.
The enormous fees being asked for by insurance companies and CMCs drew more and
more shadier businesses into the industry.
Since first launching in September last year, The Cryptos has poked fun at Bitcoin's slow and pricey transaction fees, Ethereum's numerous hard forks, Ripple's sudden price increase and subsquent drop, as well as BitConnect «s
shady business model.
Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies»,
shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.
There's another brush with a defiantly decadent neighbor (impishly amoral Christoph Waltz)
with shady business dealings, and Ngoc Lan (Hong Chau in a star - making performance), a tough, no - nonsense Vietnamese refugee who was downsized as a punishment for protesting in her native land, and whose escape to America, which cost her part of her leg, didn't dull her aggressive personality or sense of justice.
They carried placards with various inscriptions including, «We have lost confidence in Jide Awe,» «Jide Awe
in shady business with Fayose,» «No to consensus candidate,» «Jide Awe and his gang masterminded primary disruption,» «Treacherous aspirants, leave our party for us,» and «Primary must be decided, allow delegates to decide.»
In 2000, Mr. Greenberg admitted in an arbitration proceeding that he had phoned someone who did a lot of business with a colleague and told him, inaccurately, that the colleague was known
for shady business practices, according to a record of the proceeding.
EA is one of the worst publishers around and they have always done
shady business tactics / treated customers like shit.
They may also freeze or close your account if you deal with selling stuff on the darknet, gambling, adult services and
other shady business.
Netherland is best when it introduces its kaleidoscopic and near - infinite cast of background characters — the colorful denizens of the Chelsea Hotel, the international team of cricketers on Staten Island, the marginal figures with whom Chuck socializes and
does shady business.
Bobby (Willem Dafoe), the hotel manager, looks out for the guests, trying to help out when Halley, who is struggling to make money, gets
into shady business.
Fortunately for Beall, his roles as both the originator of the list and his work as a librarian mean he knows the power of excellent documentation and record preservation, and he counters that he has saved evidence
of shady business practices on every publisher he's ever included on his comprehensive list.
Making matters worse, his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was forced to resign in shame after it was revealed he had
shady business dealings with Russia and Ukraine.
Even worse:
Some shady businesses that identify themselves as factors are really just loan sharks fully prepared to threaten or coerce clients who owe them money.
As the year progressed, CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amid an investor revolt, many of Uber's other top executives resigned or were forced out,
shady business practices were revealed, and more than 20 employees were fired as a result of an investigation into bad behavior in the workplace that includes sexual harassment.
As Nassim Taleb argues in The Black Swan, banks have a tendency of losing as much money as they make in the long run due to
shady business practices and high - risk ventures.
Well after
some shady business deals and busted games that stock is basically bankrupt and I lost a ton of money which I'm still trying to recover from.
The anonymous nature of transactions in the cryptocurrency world as well as the lack of regulation by government agencies opens up the cryptocurrency market for abuse by criminals involved in illicit money flows and
shady businesses.
The Bills players view it as
shady business.
Oligarchs typically do not attain their position without
some shady business going on, but whether that constitutes a crime is debatable.
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