Bell and his partners, along with fanciers of the underdog, would have suspected chicanery.
The further down the profit and loss statement you travel, the more room for chicanery.
Amid all this cruelty and chicanery, the author does manage to find a handful of heroes.
But it also means successfully walking that invisible line between creativity and unethical chicanery.
There has been so much fraud and chicanery that nobody is suprised when another charge(s) are leveled.
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"There is some financial chicanery going on and we want to get to the bottom of it".
In a bull market they ignore signs of chicanery because they are so caught up in the merry moneymaking themselves.
This afternoon a draft bill will be sent to Congress, calling for a referendum against corruption and political chicanery.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, called it a "non-starter" and "political chicanery" that threatened to undermine the talks.
Of course, for a failed bit of chicanery, someone want to tell me where the missing million bucks are?
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Fire the managers or bribe them into going along with the chicanery by committing to huge payouts even when they fail.
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Large share purchases by company insiders led me to believe that upper levels of management were unaware of the chicanery.
The biggest headache has been Autonomy, which HP alleges had been embroiled in financial chicanery that drove up its acquisition price.
To his dying breath, Rosenthal denied any chicanery and struggled to defend his honor and the sanctity of his immortal photograph.
Revenue growth is an important gauge of health of a company, as it clearly less manipulated by accounting chicanery than is profit.
Citizens United which opened the doors to untold chicanery and veiled campaign bribery is still on the books as well.
The process leaves room for more chicanery, including smuggling and tax evasion.
The Treasury's "debt suspension period" is an extraordinary piece of financial chicanery.
In the foul wake of Tyco, Enron and WorldCom, author Stephen Frey has crafted a deft suspense novel that turns on numbers-crunching chicanery.
For most readers, the interest will lie in the book's rich collection of 360 years' worth of characters and chicanery some familiar, some not.
In 2000, with Qwest shares crashing amid allegations of accounting chicanery, Nacchio and four other Qwest execs were indicted for fraud and insider trading.
The data-mining software is partly based on a model the SEC developed to trawl through hedge fund returns for signs of Bernard Madoff-style chicanery.
Perhaps the most compelling and revealing section of the book is the part describing O'Neill and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as outraged by corporate chicanery.
Bear in mind that the man is a trained barrister, one who will know that 'chicanery' - to you and me - means sharp practice, deception even.
In Glengarry Glen Ross (ranked seventh) and Tin Men (number nine), David Mamet and Barry Levinson, respectively, discovered drama in the desperation and chicanery of salesmen on commission.
Do all these declarations reduce chicanery in the corner office?
Mr Robinson also accused Sinn Fein of chicanery when it agreed the Welfare Reform bill at the executive and then changed position when it went to the assembly vote.
And nowhere is this chicanery more evident than in energy, the area of policy closest to the financial and personal interests of Mr Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney.
There is a lovely post-credits shot as the Mme de Merteuil figure (Valmont's opposite number in cunning and deceit) pats her stomach bearing the now visible reward for her chicanery.
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