Something funny was going on with the books, suggesting that revenues and profits had been inflated.
During a credit expansion asset values become inflated, and credit-fueled spending tends to drive up corporate profitability.
They inflated at home for political purposes, but tried to keep their currencies pegged to the dollar.
The inflated valuations generated larger fees for Lauer and his associates at Lancer, the government alleged.
The underlying problems of inflated wholesale prices and shortages of supply also remain unsolved.
Eventually, rates heated up enough to pop a bubble that, in hindsight, looks ridiculously inflated.
Unfortunately, the sign-on deals were based on a 12-month snapshot of those inflated numbers.
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The rights were later resold to related companies at inflated prices and the difference was pocketed.
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We have the EPA to thank for farmers' jeopardized livelihoods, lost jobs and inflated produce prices.
It encourages agencies to pad their activity, and to bill inflated costs to the clients.
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And the IRS is loudly threatening to attack inflated charitable deductions for clunker cars.
Anish Kapoor has created an inflated biomorphic piece now sitting in the Grand Palais in Paris.
And since all the insurers pay these commissions, all quotes are inflated to some degree.
She figured out later that the broker had inflated her income on the application.
But during the fall of 2008, the complaint alleges, Citi artificially inflated the Libor rates.
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Again however, Street expectations (and we believe supplier expectations) were based on the inflated numbers.
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Nor were sales buoyed by inflated fleet sales as was the case in January.
In other words, VCs may ultimately wind-up holding a large number of companies at inflated valuations.
The drivers, Hassan, Rafik, all those who handled money, lavishly inflated the bills that they submitted.
It's almost a given that battery life claims from manufacturers tend to be inflated.
One truckload is equivalent to 40 truckloads of the already inflated bubbles of yore.
The Twins figure is inflated because they moved into a new ballpark last season.
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The result of those battles was an inflated view of the nature of the vote.
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Energy traders do the same thing with unleaded futures based on inflated expectations of summer driving.
After some embarrassing revelations about inflated profits and self-dealing, Martin was pushed out in October.
Chinese graduates often have an inflated view of their own worth, complain some foreign managers.
Were we going to pay an over-inflated price for a lesser product than Andy Carroll?
They paid, for the most part, with the funny money of their own inflated stock.
On the other hand: we all pick up the inflated tab through higher insurance premiums.
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The fish was 27 inches long and an impossible 27 inches around, like an over-inflated football.
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