What kind of a flim-flam could they play if their mark always showed good judgment?
Robert Ehrlich, 50, a former commodities trader and the founder of Robert's American Gourmet, peddles edible flim-flam.
In the modern world, however, self-indulgence and feudal flim-flam corrode both the company's external image and its internal ethics.
As a long-time observer of flim-flam artists, it has always been remarkable to dissect the personality of these thieves.
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Unfortunately, shortly before it left office, the Bush Administration adopted just such an analytic flim-flam in a last, desperate bid to prevail in a four-year fight with Congress over termination of the V-22.
For Romney, who probably knows more about personal income taxes than most Americans, the concept behind his statements is not only a flim-flam, it implies that somehow half the population is not working and on the dole.
Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.
If the U.S. government permits such flim-flams as parent-to-subsidiary laterals and barter arrangements as a substitute for cash to circumvent ILSA (and, any other sanction regime), it can forget about having sanctions serve in the future as an effective policy alternative to generally ineffectual diplomatic demarches and draconian military responses.
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