In the banking industry, bank managers rarely miss the opportunity to set-up fly-by-night schemes.
FORBES: China's Tainted Capitalism is Catching up with Apple Computer
Others are clueless and besieged by new-media providers--some legitimate, some fly-by-night--clamoring for their attention.
Land-grabbers who rented government plots illegally to fly-by-night shops, taking money that belonged to the city. (Mr Hamidi would burst into such places with shovel in hand, pushing people aside, shouting at them to clear their rubbish away.) And, over all these, the swaggering local powerbrokers who demanded their share of the opium trade, the military contracts and the building projects, like boys fighting for candy at a wedding.
Europeans often need to be persuaded that a youthful U.S. corporation is not a fly-by-night company.
But counterfeit operations are often small fly-by-night firms that operate out of shacks.
If you have a complaint against somebody who seems to be in a fly-by-night operation, you look at it differently.
While some reverse mortgages are legit, some fly-by-night operators fleece unsuspecting homeowners.
One initial worry was that fly-by-night fund managers might jeopardise workers' savings.
Infomercial marketers want to rid themselves of their image as fly-by-night.
He says many fly-by-night companies and some big ones are out of business, and he says the terms were ridiculous, and that's why you have so many defaults.
The link to the financial crisis recently emphasized by President Obama is that these mortgages would not have been made if regulators had been watching those fly-by-night mortgage brokers.
Even some of Mr Ozawa's supporters concede that Mr Kan is marginally more likely to win, because he enjoys more popular support and the nation is sick of a succession of fly-by-night leaders.
"You can't have a fly-by-night organization run out of a kitchen, " says Kevin Wilson, who served as Icann's chief financial officer from 2007 to 2011 and is now co-founder of a South Pasadena, Calif.
While the U.S. has had its own winemaking scandals (usually around the honesty of zinfandel blends), the country is more often the object of scammers, usually fly-by-night European exporters selling "rare" wines at low prices.
While the U.S. has basically scrapped its space mission, slashing the budget of NASA and now too close to a fiscal cliff to invest in fly-by-night government funded manned space operations, China is on the move.
FORBES: China's Space Age Grows Up As U.S. Space Race Winds Down
That whole fly-by-night lending boom, slicing and dicing mortgage bonds, derivatives and CDOs, and all the other shadiness of the 2000s mortgage market was a Wall Street creation, and that is what drove all those risky mortgages.
Much has been written about the advanced energy-saving installations carried out by experts, and how small, shabby offices more suggestive of shady detective agencies or fly-by-night financial operators were replaced by "prebuilt" high-tech interiors to attract prime corporate tenants.
WSJ: The Empire State Building's Luster Returns | By Ada Louise Huxtable
Mr. Madoff's investors will in retrospect kick themselves for not asking more questions, especially about the remarkable consistency of his returns over the years, his apparently fly-by-night auditing shop, and his small trading book despite having so much money under management.
But Munira Ezzeldine, the author of "Before the Wedding: 150 Questions for Muslims to Ask Before Getting Married, " says that many of these are "fly-by-night Shahaadas, " professions of faith that are not sincere and are simply made to please the families or religious authorities.
WSJ: Naomi Schaefer Riley: Defining the 'All-American Muslim'
Further, when you remove the obligation that an insurance company be licensed in the state where they are selling, what you get are fly-by-night operations that sell very cheap policies that end up having very little in the way of benefits included in the policy.
FORBES: The Republican Alternative To Obamacare Is - More Obamacare?
The show used the shabbiest possible effects, plus a fly-by-night attitude toward narrative logic, although its low budget was as much a feature as a bug: it made something out of nothing, much the way Abed and Troy constructed their Dreamatorium engine out of cardboard tubes and a funnel.
The aircraft had the bat-wing insignia of her son's unit, the "Vampires" -- so-called because they usually fly at night.
Nick Green hit a game-winning sacrifice fly and Miami rallied for two runs in the 15th inning Monday night to beat the Mets 4-3, handing New York its fifth consecutive loss.
He used to want to fly out of self-awareness, day and night, a body in raw motion.
Air ambulances serving Sussex, Kent and Surrey are to fly at night from early next year, creating a 24-hour service.
BBC: Air ambulances to fly at night in Sussex, Kent and Surrey
The second half did not provide the same thrills, but fly-half Sweeney did add his second try to cap a fine night.
But two muffed fly balls by Wilson in center field--this was long before night World Series games, meaning that late-afternoon sun could be a big factor--contributed to a furious A's rally that didn't let up until 10 runs had crossed the plate.
The new game will integrate advanced AI developed for the Fight Night boxing franchise, which will have NBA players reacting to the monster dunks and alley oops on-the-fly.
FORBES: Potential NBA Lockout Won't Impact New Basketball Video Games
应用推荐