You start thinking about how much money you used to make as a crook.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may not be a crook, but she is a fraud.
Al Gore says any scientist who disagrees with him on global warming is a kook, or a crook.
If the police kill a crook, she flies to the scene of the shoot-out to pose over the bleeding corpse.
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In other words, Enron went bankrupt because Mr Fastow was a crook, not because it was a house of cards.
Another idea: set up fraud alerts at the major credit reporting agencies, which can prevent a crook from creating any accounts in your name.
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Identity theft means that a crook obtains new bank accounts, credit cards, mobile phones, car leases, even apartment rentals in your name and without your knowledge.
Imagine taking a call you thought was from the police, your credit card company or bank when actually it's a crook trying to get information out of you.
Instead, I saw a thief and a crook, an ordinary fool who got caught and was now in prison trying to retain whatever dignity and connection he could find.
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And though there is no suspicion that Mr Zedillo is a crook as some of his predecessors were, his reforms have not gone to the heart of the system.
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But behind any good idea, there is a crook looking to make money, and that's exactly what has spurred smartphone scammers to spread a new Android fake anti-virus program.
"Traditionally they've hired mostly lawyers who have no experience in trading or anything that would help them even discover that (Bernie) Madoff was a crook, " says Margaret Starner, Raymond James senior vice president.
But now, in the later innings of his life, he must rise to an unseemly challenge: to salvage his reputation and his fortune, Wilpon must prove that he was a dupe rather than a crook.
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Mr Seddon told the court he was the first out of the vehicle and used a crook lock to smash open a window before helping to free his father and nephew before firefighters arrived and rescued his mother.
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Mileagegate seems to have the potential to become a significant crook in the road for these brands.
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"Tonight I was nervous, because I was feeling a bit crook, " he said.
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Guidelines aside, this is a bad time to be a corporate crook.
Oddly for a self-confessed crook, Mr Raju invested in training.
Panesar had former Northants player Carl Greenidge caught at mid-wicket by Sales, Vikram Banerjee dismissed by a brilliant diving catch by Steven Crook at slip, and Ben Edmondson caught behind after a wild swipe.
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That day I walked away from the waiting women, into the trees and towards the water: the same river that further on curled around the houses, so the village lay within its embrace like a woman in the crook of her lover's arm.
Author Miles Harvey's story focuses on one Gilbert Bland, a Vietnam veteran and petty crook turned Florida strip-mall antiques dealer.
Western Kentucky started whittling into the lead in the closing minutes, and a 3-pointer by Crook made it 59-55 with 25.4 seconds left on the clock.
The Abrahams believe it was the same crook who had come a few weeks earlier, just before Thanksgiving, and cleaned out the shelves on the opposite side of the store.
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