| 单词 | fly-by-night |
| 例句 | And, God knows, Will had plenty of experience with fly-by-night ideas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Those jars were something you might expect to find in the basement of a fly-by-night medical school, not a house full of children. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She is also intent on marrying dreary Lord Fawn or, maybe, as the mood suits her, the fly-by-night Lord George de Bruce Carruthers or Frank Greystock, who is engaged to Lucy. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z For a long time, tactical urbanism was associated with guerrilla gardeners and fly-by-night pop-up parks, whereas large-scale “city planning” was seen as the job of bureaucrats with blueprints. Stop thinking big 2012-06-16T16:00:00Z The fly-by-night nature of the publishers and appallingly low pay didn’t exactly fill Mizuki’s coffers. Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As the popularity burgeoned, more Chinese factories and fly-by-night entrepreneurs joined. Celebrities on Scooters (Catch Them if You Can) 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Spam dispatched by fly-by-night ministries even offers to pray for us. Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z An argument ensues when Libby accuses Robert of dismissing her as a “silly, fly-by-night do-gooder.” 'Masters of Sex' recap: Bill's demons arise during TV shoot 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z It is not exactly a fly-by-night operation, but the margins are tight. Winston Churchill Goes Digital 2010-07-28T22:12:00Z It's a contrarian bet in an age of fly-by-night YouTube stars and slipping sales prospects even for major stars. Interscope CEO John Janick looks ahead 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Eerie Publications was the very definition of a sleazy, fly-by-night company. Comics: Ding dong! The Code is dead 2011-02-02T00:20:12Z He said the prohibitions were troubling not just for their broadness and vagueness, but for what he called the “fly-by-night nature” of the campaign promoting them. Scholarly Groups Condemn Laws Limiting Teaching on Race 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z A latter-day slacker with vague writing ambitions, James sleeps on a couch in Gail’s apartment, where he is her fly-by-night caretaker. Review: In ‘James White,’ Facing Adulthood With Uncertainty 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Among the few places that would hire a kid with a ninth-grade education was a fly-by-night New Jersey telemarketing firm called Civic Development Group, or CDG. Scam Likely: The scruffy "Telemarketers" asks us to pay attention to those calls we'd rather ignore 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z I didn't want to be involved in some fly-by-night scene. Kings Go Forth transcends trends 2011-06-16T15:26:37Z When she sings "no fly-by-night romance, I want substance" on Give It to You, it's not framed as a demand to her man, but as a caution to her own lust. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z And so many people are now famous for being famous, she might now seem more venerable pioneer than contemptible fly-by-night. Who Is Paris Hilton, Really? 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z A fly-by-night online travel agency might deliver a bargain — or it might disappear. Perspective | Is your travel company going out of business? Here’s how to tell. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “If this fly-by-night character does have a soul,” he wrote about himself, “it’s lost somewhere on a baggage carousel.” Justin Ross Lee, Party Animal, Seeks Fame 2012-05-17T18:57:17Z Keren’s death becomes the cause of a misty, fly-by-night escape plan for a repentant Mark, a sequence that shows Ross in peak law-breaking mode. 'Poldark' Season 1 Finale Recap: Faith vs. Perfidy 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The rule was a response to the surging growth in the late 1980s of fly-by-night for-profits established solely to grab government loan money, and the original ratio was 85/15. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z She knew the difference between fly-by-night success and those with a true vocation. Joan Rivers, a singular comic with a writer's conflicted heart 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Far from a fly-by-night cash-grab, The Evil Within represents 15 years’ worth of effort, standing today as a testament to its creator’s singular mad ambition. A millionaire, his meth addiction and the horror movie 15 years in the making 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z But she doesn’t consider Chaudhari’s team to be like other fly-by-night investors. They created a ‘safe space’ in South L.A. But can this beloved plant shop survive 'gentrification?' 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z "There is a cohort of increasingly fly-by-night people who inject, who are there on Instagram one day and gone the next, who are frankly fraudulent in claiming their qualifications." Lip fillers: Call for tighter regulation after botched treatments 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Stoppelman said the surplus of fly-by-night companies gave credence to a joke that circulated around PayPal: Start-ups do better in the suburbs because their workers have less to do outside the office. What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z That includes stamping out the pervasive corruption that riddled the industry, involving officials, their cronies, warlords, fly-by-night contractor outfits and even U.S. special forces operatives and the Taliban’s own fighters. The world needs chromite and lithium. Afghanistan has them. What happens next? 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z They include people who got defrauded by fly-by-night “colleges”; people who acquired debt but didn’t graduate; and people who got degrees but ones not particularly valued by employers. Opinion | Biden’s student debt plan is a Democratic version of ‘trickle-down’ economics 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Add to that L.A.'s notoriously speculative real estate market, and corporate developers and fly-by-night investors have been circling. Column: They wanted to save Leimert Park from gentrification. Here's how they got one block 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z In the industry’s early days, critics complained about the fly-by-night nature of some crypto miners. The thrill is gone for Central Washington’s once-hot crypto industry 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Kaufman says the buy now, pay later financing model “fits within a long history of fly-by-night operators using ever-more toxic forms of credit to prop up what are essentially scams.” Is ‘learn now, pay later’ just another student debt trap 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Walt Disney himself was determined, as he put it himself, to “control the area, so that it does not become the jungle of signs, lights and fly-by-night operations that have ‘fed’ on Disneyland’s audience.” Column: Heaps of money got Disney what it wanted in Florida, until now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “It’s unrealistic to think that a collection of smaller operations or fly-by-night operations is going to be able to provide what a huge and growing region like ours needs,” Constantine said. Seattle-area contractors working for Sound Transit and others turn to ‘ghost trucks’ to dodge concrete strike 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z These actions and policies aren’t only those of little fly-by-night operators that can’t be trusted, but of major consumer brands with premium reputations. Column: Businesses have been ripping off consumers for 50 years. Here's how we can strike back 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Those involved in the illegal gold trade represent a cross-section of individuals and companies ranging from shady fly-by-night operators to legitimate businesses. Tarnished Gold: Aircraft, fuel key to illegal Amazon mining 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z The factories, Fatima Fertilizer and Pakarab Fertilizers, were not fly-by-night organizations. Gold Star Families Accuse Major Banks of Aiding Terrorists 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z One thing it isn’t is a fly-by-night operation. What to Expect from the Next Major Global Climate Report 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Amazon presumably keeps a closer watch on big merchants than it does on fly-by-night companies that don’t sell much. Amazon’s Great Purge 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “There are plenty of fly-by-night so-called plumbers swarming into Houston,” he said. In Houston, the heroes now arrive with plumbing tools 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Officials should be wary of fly-by-night and for-profit schools, desperate for students and revenue, that would exploit prisoners for a quick buck while offering dubious value. Opinion | Prisoners are again eligible for Pell Grants. It’s about time. 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z “I’m not going to take someone’s food off the table. People are being taken advantage of. I’m not a fly-by-night type of guy. It’s not a one-night stand with me.” Column: For the Pied Piper of La Puente, no COVID-hit business is too small to tout 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z First of all, this isn’t going to be a fly-by-night quickie, some passing summer fling you’re going to leave behind, dog-eared and water-stained, in a cabin or resort. Review: Make William Gaddis your quarantine buddy 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The economy abhors a vacuum, however, and since N95s were soon selling for more than 10 times what Baystate Health had been paying, fly-by-night speculators swiftly established a gray market for remaining stocks of respirators. Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Becker said the Voter Integrity Fund appeared to be the latest in a series of “shoddy, fly-by-night” efforts to replicate the project and would inevitably flag numerous false positives based on inadequate data. Government officials are helping Trump supporters hunt for voter fraud 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Or, as Carroll put it: “Neither one of us are fly-by-night guys.” Seahawks’ Pete Carroll, Patriots’ Bill Belichick both set in their (very successful) ways 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “Many of these hunting preserves are fly-by-night operations. Business owners swoop in, sell big takes, and leave. They aren’t in it for the long term,” he said. This L.A. hunter killed an elephant. Now he's a PETA target in bid to end trophy hunting 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Worries also abound that these fly-by-night startups could do more damage than good. Startups cash in on racial justice reckoning with costly police bias courses 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z All these breakdowns in the market – the hospitals without masks, the bogus gear, the exorbitant prices, the hoarding, the fly-by-night profiteers – seem to expose the limits of orthodox economics. How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “These aren’t fly-by-night people selling a test on the street corner,” he said. Special Report: How federal snafus slowed testing at a top U.S. hospital 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In Bangor, Cooper’s company is not a fly-by-night operation that aims to cash in the situation. Amid virus, humble toilet paper is suddenly a hot commodity 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z But there are steps you can take to help protect yourself from fly-by-night manufacturers and sketchy installers, which is crucial to safety. The pluses and pitfalls of home elevator installations 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “There’s a gold rush going on now. Probably 95 percent of the industry participants are responsible, but what’s dangerous is the fly-by-night operative that wants to cash in.” Researchers: Some pet products touted as CBD don’t have any 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Over three days they installed four cameras and two small white boxes at the gates of the complex, which hosts cheap hotels and fly-by-night businesses. A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Congress first capped the amount of taxpayer dollars for-profit colleges could receive at 85 percent in 1992 to crack down on fly-by-night schools making money from student aid programs. Republican leader backs restrictions that could end for-profit colleges’ aggressive recruitment of veterans 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z If enforcing wage claims against fly-by-night operators is difficult, it’s equally hard against powerful companies with seemingly limitless resources to stall wage theft cases. Efforts to claw back stolen wages slow, as Calif. employers who cheat workers often get away with it 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “People have started to see the market grow and there are some fly-by-night companies trying to make a quick buck,” said Marielle Weintraub, president of the U.S. CBD vapes spiked with dangerous drugs for sale across US 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “They were building confidence in this fly-by-night website, that’s what they really were after here,” Bond said. Fake ‘expert’ diminishes the value of genuine financial help 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z IRBs at creditable research institutions may act responsibly, but it’s not uncommon for fly-by-night IRBs to offer their services for hire or even for researchers to set up themselves as an IRB. Column: Paying women to donate their eggs for research is still a terrible idea 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z His alternative: A GOP plan to let fly-by-night insurers sell policies nationwide that don’t include any mental health coverage. Donald Trump's week from hell: After the horrors of El Paso and Dayton, GOP is in full retreat 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “A liquor license is not something that is easily obtained by a fly-by-night business.” Across Pennsylvania, communities uncork liquor laws 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Barber was no fly-by-night butcher, and was well aware of an 1889 law requiring all meat sold in Minnesota to be inspected locally prior to slaughter. The price of plenty: how beef changed America 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Even with a sea of still-unfilled desks, the 2020 campaign is already unrecognizable from the fly-by-night operation of the last effort, when Trump won the White House despite his inexperienced campaign team. Fly-by-night no more: Trump hones 2020 re-election machine 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Even with a sea of still-unfilled desks, his 2020 campaign is already unrecognizable from the fly-by-night operation of the last effort, when Trump won the White House despite his inexperienced campaign team. Fly-by-night no more: Trump hones 2020 re-election machine 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z This isn’t some fly-by-night club of college students looking to kill time or skip class. University adds competitive video gaming 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Castillo pleaded guilty in September 2011 to charges related to operating a fly-by-night plastic surgery clinic without a medical license, and served a year in federal prison. Illegal ‘Butt Lift’ Injection Leads to Death, and a Manslaughter Charge 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z He said these are fringe products, often made by fly-by-night manufacturers and sold on the Internet or in convenience stores. Diet, weight loss and sex supplements are tainted with unapproved drugs 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z For the last half-century, its main business has been the study of the tiniest insubstantial bit of matter in the universe, an ephemeral fly-by-night subatomic particle called the neutrino. The Neutrino Trappers 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Facebook says the two situations are “very different,” and indeed, sharing personal data with fly-by-night developers or marketing firms is not the same as sharing it with big tech companies. Facebook accused of giving over 60 device makers inappropriate access to user data 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The janitorial industry is full of fly-by-night contractors and subcontractors who pay employees a flat cash rate that works out to less than the hourly minimum wage, Garcia-Brower said. Fighting to make sure janitors get a fair wage 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “What I think is worrisome is a lot of products that are coming in a sort of a fly-by-night operation and you only hear about it because somebody gets burned,” he said. Kenya's central bank governor calls for regulation of fintech lenders 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z But, he said, the bill opens the door for “a bad actor, some unscrupulous manufacturer, a fly-by-night outfit to promote something like snake oil, whether the F.D.A. approves it or not.” Congress Approves Bill Giving Patients a ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Drugs 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “This will provide fly-by-night physicians and clinics the opportunity to peddle false hope and ineffective drugs to desperate patients,” Pallone said. Congress OKs letting terminal patients try unapproved drugs 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Its brand, carefully cultivated, is one of trust and legitimacy, in contrast to what it says are “fly-by-night” exchanges that freely operate in a legal gray zone in other parts of the world. Move deliberately, fix things: How Coinbase is building a cryptocurrency empire 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z And they ask for tax advice on complex situations, such as fly-by-night cryptocurrency exchanges that vanish suddenly, erasing the records of users’ transactions. Think Cryptocurrency Is Confusing? Try Paying Taxes on It 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z “With these kinds of substances, they are just so dangerous that no fly-by-night terrorist group is going to cook this up,” Sella said. UK says ex-spy poisoned with Soviet-developed nerve agent 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z For every venture capitalist or technical expert, there’s a half-dozen hype men and fly-by-night startups making the entire space look like a 21st-century version of the Amsterdam tulip mania. Why Blockchain Will Survive, Even If Bitcoin Doesn’t 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Graffiti has come a long way since the 1970s when fly-by-night taggers sprayed their work on bridge abutments or subway cars then slipped away before the authorities arrived. At Core of 5Pointz Trial: Is Graffiti Art Protected by Law? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z If I was trying to get “Bernie” made now, it would be a Netflix movie instead of what I did, which is piecing it together with 30 fly-by-night financiers and splotchy distribution. Richard Linklater on 'Last Flag Flying,' 'liberal patriotism' and finally making a middle-aged movie 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Fifteen years ago the summer landscape was splintered, the exhibition calendar was a hodgepodge and the organizations involved were fly-by-night. The Two Men Who Make Money From the N.B.A. in Summer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z But if it’s easy to understand young male impulsiveness, it is another matter entirely to allow seemingly fly-by-night travel agencies off the hook. Opinion | Don’t let the travel agencies taking people to North Korea off the hook 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z It passed after fly-by-night pool contractors ripped off homeowners across metro Phoenix by taking large deposits and never completing the work. Pool contractors fight to keep protections for pool buyers 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Skipping ahead to the financial crisis, we never learn whether it’s the dishonest home-buyers who were hippies, or the fly-by-night mortgage lenders who were hippies, or the Wall Street traders who were hippies. Steve Bannon harnessed the spirit of revolt that the Democrats gave up | Thomas Frank 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Bloch, who hadn’t heard of Sequoia and thought it sounded fly-by-night, filed the card away. The Movie with a Thousand Plot Lines 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “This isn’t some fly-by-night guy who decided to steal some bees,” he said. Thieves steal hundreds of beehives primed to pollinate Central Valley almonds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z False news stories posted on fly-by-night websites were prevalent in this election. Trap of Exposing Fake News: Eroding Trust in Real Reporting 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z But in this new era, subscriber numbers are more important than fly-by-night readership. Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Ciolek, who says there are at least 200 mugshot publications across the country, went on to say that while regulating mugshot magazines seems unlikely, there are other options available to reign in “fly-by-night operations”. Mugshot tabloids: defamation as the price for profitable 'schadenfreude' 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Waxman said his clients are laser-focused on the next game, not so much on retirement, budgeting or how to avoid being "prey for fly-by-night investment ideas." From the Olympics to Wall Street: The athletes who become brokers 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Any fly-by-night appliance repairman can drop a few bucks on a Google ad, he reasons. Yellow Pages Hang On in Digital Age 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z A fourth-generation beekeeper and repeat victim, Ashurst called them “fly-by-night” criminals who may understand the ins and outs of beekeeping, but are not of the community. Sticky fingers: The rise of the bee thieves | Brett Murphy 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He said weak enforcement encourages “fly-by-night operations who risk people’s health because they may get away with it.” Michigan didn’t issue fines in many asbestos violations 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z They’ve been confiscated from filthy backyard pens and fly-by-night circuses, even seized from the homes of convicted drug dealers. An Unlikely Home for Rescued Lions, Tigers, and Bears 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But are these conscious nightclubs a nascent trend or just another fly-by-night fad? Dance yourself happy: the rise of the sober rave 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Despite countless examples of flash-in-the-pan sensations and fly-by-night superstars, we fall for the next one time and again. SNYDER: Upon arrival, departure, Robert Griffin III saga seems like just a dream 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z There are many fly-by-night, unlicensed movers and enterprises that either intend to con you – or are too disorganized and inexperienced to offer you a good move. 3 Signs of a Bad Moving Company 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In the early 1990s, the law that imposed loan-default rate limits stopped the flow of aid to hundreds of schools, largely fly-by-night for-profit colleges. U.S. Helps Shaky Colleges Cope With Bad Student Loans 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z But these companies are not tiny fly-by-night upstarts. Lack of transparency among 'unicorn' start-ups is backfiring 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z And to a certain degree, they probably do: Requiring binders of documentation on institutional processes probably deters the worst fly-by-night operations. Missing the Mark on Higher Education 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z These natural impediments will be obstacles enough to keep most fly-by-night proposals from advancing. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The maritime security industry includes fewer fly-by-night companies today than it did several years ago, according to the guards. Murder at Sea: Captured on Video, but Killers Go Free 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Insurgent challenges all start as underfunded, fly-by-night operations, with just enough resources to gain attention in the early days. Bernie Sanders isn’t Barack Obama, and 2016 isn’t 2008 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z These changes were probably overdue for a company that grew from a fly-by-night fight promotion into a worldwide entertainment brand in less than two decades. UFC’s tiny logo change is a big deal for its new visual look 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z When a new country appears on the global fashion radar, it’s not always clear whether it’s there to stay or a fly-by-night fad. Will Kyiv Become A Global Fashion Capital? 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But their duet, “I’ll Know,” is still as persuasive a piece of singing as you could hope to hear in a Broadway romance, fly-by-night or otherwise. Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ in East Haddam Revives the World and Patois of Damon Runyon’s New York 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Some also were concerned about fly-by-night operations bilking the system. New law overhauls special education funding in Tennessee 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z From a foreign wholesaler, later identified as Dream Pharma, a fly-by-night business run out of a driving school in London, the state of Arizona bought some made by a German company in Austria. The Supreme Court and The Death Penalty 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “This is not a fly-by-night movement,” the Teach for America executive says. Meet 12 New Faces of Black Leadership 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Forget passing interior fads and fly-by-night trends; here are the oldies but goodies every living room needs. Living Room Features That Never Go Out Of Style 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “These are not fly-by-night companies,” said one agent, Stephen Long, the deputy chief officer for the customs’ agency’s cargo processing branch at Newark. At U.S. Ports, Even Santa’s Bag Might Be Peeked Into 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Kurds began to unilaterally export their own oil, in a fly-by-night operation that sent their tankers, with satellite beacons switched off, searching the seas for buyers. A New Deal for the Kurds 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z "This is not fly-by-night. It happens to be the timing is fortuitous." Amazon to open its 1st Illinois warehouse 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z There is also reason to believe that some less than honorable folks might want to grab tax dollars by operating fly-by-night schools. Low-Income Families Should Be Able to Choose Their Children's Schools 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z By running fake stories on trending topics, these fly-by-night sites can drastically increase the number of people who see their stories, increasing the odds that their posts will go viral. Fake news sites are using Facebook to spread Ebola panic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z What’s more, the poll wasn’t conducted by some obscure, fly-by-night operation; it was done by McLaughlin & Associates, a major Republican pollster. About that ACA 'repeal' poll... 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Unlike many internet retailers of dietary supplements and herbal remedies, Eu Yan Sang is not a fly-by-night operation. Lead In Chinese Cold Remedy Poisons Toddler; FDA, NYC Warn 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z As Julie Appleby reports at Kaiser Health News, there are two California lawsuits under way and they are not against fly-by-night insurers. More Discrimination Against The Sick 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z For-profit schools — ranging from monolithic online chains like the University of Phoenix to smaller, fly-by-night operations that advertise on the subway — enroll about 12 percent of college students nationally. The investment in for-profit colleges isn’t paying off How are package delivery services – or insurers, landlords, or even utilities for that matter – supposed to distinguish between legitimate online pharmacies and fly-by-night operators? Please, FedEx, Fight Back Against Federal Extortion 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Don’t get trapped by overindulgence, bells and whistles, too many organizations taking their slice of the pie or those prone to fly-by-night. Whether You Go With Aetna, Allstate, AIG Or Another, Avoid The Four Big Insurance Traps 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But with little government oversight and inexperienced clients, the sector’s reputation was tarnished by fly-by-night operators offering worthless degrees. A winning recipe 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One advantage of running a proven business, rather than a fly-by-night start-up, is that you have a tested model that can be more easily extended to new locations. Seeking Rapid Growth? Follow Warren Buffett's Advice: 'Don't Swing For The Fences' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Young men were staking their hopes on software courses at fly-by-night colleges, hoping for something better than work at a call center. Hopes of a Generation Ride on Indian Vote 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A big reason for the streak: The majors aren’t facing the myriad of fly-by-night start-ups that disrupted their business in the past. Why High Oil Prices Are Actually Good For Airlines 2014-04-16T15:57:57Z Many are as scrupulous as Kilian is, but fraud among fly-by-night, seasonal tax preparers who open up shop in vacant storefronts and trailers costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Here’s How Shady Tax Preparers Plan to Steal Your Money 2014-04-12T17:24:17Z It’s important to note that none of these are fly-by-night companies attempting to mislead investors. Tech Looks Like It’s Entering Another Period of Insanity 2014-03-18T11:19:51Z Tech pioneers who changed our world now cater for the fly-by-night fads of consumers. Is new tech just a fashion item? 2014-02-26T00:31:31Z The resulting credit vacuum was filled by shady, expensive, offshore, and fly-by-night lending for everything from furniture to homes to burial insurance. The racism that still plagues America 2014-01-20T16:00:00Z "This needed to be done well before January. It's sort of a fly-by-night approach." Adding a baby to health plan not easy 2014-01-03T15:07:01Z He found a job pitching penny stocks — that is, stocks that are too small to be listed on any exchange, many of which are fly-by-night companies — and realized he had found his calling. Martin Scorsese’s Approach in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ 2013-12-19T15:00:01Z Turns out the store was a fly-by-night shop out of the U.K. that sold broken products. Tool Kit: How to Detect Swindles and Spam Lurking in Your Search Results 2013-05-22T17:38:14Z But once he learned that fly-by-night brokers were writing inflated mortgages to buyers with no income, he convened a conference on “Predatory Lending in Ohio” at the Cleveland branch of the Federal Reserve. Cleveland: Ground zero for the housing bubble 2013-05-12T21:00:00Z In other words, people were as bored as you'd expect a nation of fly-by-night lapsed Anglicans to be, so it's no wonder that they were looking around for a perv factor. Margaret Thatcher's funeral: in search of the totty 2013-04-17T12:12:45Z And despite its unusual location, El Sabroso is no fly-by-night operation; it is registered with the health department and currently displays an “A” rating. | Garment District: El Sabroso, a Not-So-Secret Latin Lunch Counter 2012-12-28T00:11:27Z Government is too important and too complex to be run by fly-by-night contractors. Readers speak out on pay, morale, contractors and health insurance 2012-11-26T23:36:25Z For more than a decade, Darr says, fly-by-night companies have been promising low prices online or over the phone, and the government has paid too little attention. Clamping Down on Crooked Movers 2012-10-05T00:08:11Z We may live in a world where $50,000 will buy a summer tourist a fly-by-night ticket to be photographed at the South Pole. Scientist at Work Blog: Beyond Antarctica's Photo Opportunity 2012-08-30T09:58:56Z Also, the absolute lowest price may be from some fly-by-night operation whose primary expertise is in disappointing its customers, so don’t just shoot for the lowest price. Tool Kit: A System Clears the Clutter When Buying Tech Products 2012-07-25T21:05:37Z But do these fly-by-night cyclists play it safe as they tool around town? Bikeshare Riders Shun Helmets 2012-06-16T12:45:00.193Z In some cases, this occurs deep in isolated forests or in the form of fly-by-night operations with only a few machines and labourers working in a very small area. India's 'lawless' mining industry criticised by Human Rights Watch 2012-06-14T09:46:52Z Until quite lately, a walk at evening, outside the precincts of the town, was likely to terminate unpleasantly, as these fly-by-night gentlemen were often hanging about with an eye to business. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Dr. Kaufman warns against purchasing dung beetles from fly-by-night beetle-rearing start-ups, however, because beetles from one area can carry cattle pathogens to another. Green Blog: King of the Dung Hill 2012-03-09T13:19:09Z On the other hand, the for-profits are relatively unregulated, and many are fly-by-night operations that scam students. Economix Blog: Shifting Students Out of Community Colleges and Into For-Profits 2012-03-05T17:56:34Z Ms. Lu said many unlicensed Chinese contractors in Brooklyn and Queens operate as fly-by-night operations. City Room: Helping Unlicensed Chinese Contractors by Bridging the Language Gap 2012-01-30T20:41:33Z Thousands of fly-by-night distributors and producers are vying for a foothold in the rapidly expanding market. Pricey counterfeit labels proliferate as China wine market booms 2012-01-15T05:09:00Z “If it isn’t sorted out everyone will pull out because they don’t want some fly-by-night security protecting them.” Report Details Problems for Karzai?s Afghan Security Force Plan 2011-11-01T20:16:04Z He also worries about opening the door to fly-by-night institutions enrolling students who are more interested in obtaining a green card than pursuing a career as a scientist or engineer. House Prepares to Move STEM Immigration Reform 2011-10-11T21:00:30Z Perhaps the most serious risk is that fly-by-night contractors will be drawn to the new pot of money, pushing energy retrofits that are too costly or work poorly. Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings ?Green? Finds Favor 2011-09-20T01:01:40Z "This is not a fly-by-night religious organization," Jeffs shouted in front of the startled jurors in the San Angelo courtroom, referring to the breakaway Mormon sect he leads. Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted 2011-07-29T19:04:34Z In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is already yours. Keith Olbermann's case for gay marriage 2011-06-24T19:25:00Z There’s hundreds of these little fly-by-night mining camps in this here Western country. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z We don't want to be a fly-by-night, one-year, we-win-it-and-then-we-disappear type of team. Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid quotes from Wednesday 2011-04-21T00:06:13Z Georgia attorneys claimed the drug came from a fly-by-night British supplier operating in a gritty London neighborhood. Arizona death-row inmate arguing against execution warrant over drug concerns, litigation 2011-03-17T22:59:47Z Contrary to what those unfamiliar with social media might think, Twitter is not a fly-by-night organization. Social media for science: Geological perspective 2011-03-17T14:15:00.567Z Defense attorneys have claimed it came from a fly-by-night British supplier operating from the back of a driving school in a gritty London neighborhood. Arizona officials say there is ample supply of sedative to use during upcoming executions 2011-03-16T23:55:39Z Perhaps the popularity of Angry Birds serves as yet another reminder to investors that the app market is hardly a fly-by-night phenomenon. The Most Successful App Ever? 2011-03-10T16:45:00Z "I was in banking until 2010, so it helped that people knew where I worked and we weren't fly-by-night," he says. Quitting Wall Street 2011-02-24T23:27:50Z "My clients are not some scummy fly-by-night hedge funds," said Kinnucan, who insisted the kind of information on technology companies he provided his clients was perfectly legitimate. Broadband's Kinnucan gets subpoena in probe 2010-12-03T19:24:00Z That sounds very 2005, but this is not some fly-by-night operation peddling the loan. Your Money: In Mortgage Ad, Two Wrongs Don?t Make a Right 2010-10-02T01:10:00Z Vanity Fair story about how Sarah Palin is a narcissist whose speaking fees are paid by mysterious fly-by-night PACs. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are having a 9/11 party! 2010-09-01T21:01:00Z Like the chimney sweeps, many companies, often fly-by-night, offer to come and clean the entire system for one low price. Shortcuts: To Avoid Fly-by-Night Cleaners, Make a Phone Call First 2010-07-16T18:59:00Z Like many towns, our high street is being taken over by charity shops and fly-by-night stores. Letters: The local impact of Tesco's success 2010-06-10T23:05:00Z Some fly-by-night profit-making schools might cease to exist, and all but the most popular private nonprofit universities might finally be forced to reckon with their costs and course offerings. Your Money: A Move to Ease Student Debt Burden 2010-06-04T22:41:00Z Twenty years ago the sector had grown wild and unruly, as fly-by-night trade schools siphoned off students from welfare and unemployment lines, ostensibly to train them as truck drivers or hairdressers. The Homeless at College 2010-04-30T15:00:00Z “These are not fly-by-night operations,” Mr. Clark said by telephone. In Shanghai, Bootleg Goods Are Moved to Secret Rooms 2010-04-27T18:06:00Z Soon after, fly-by-night operations imitating Amway's direct sales techniques sprang up. Why Amway and China Are a Good Fit 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z "These fly-by-night companies are out there and the telephone companies are happy to take their money," he said. Misdials help 'crammers' ring up millions in phone bill scam 2010-03-01T05:00:00Z It proved to the football world that the A.F.L. was not a fly-by-night league; it was a legitimate football league. 2010-02-06T06:30:00Z We have driven our pigs to queer markets; mayhap we shall sty them yet, despite this cross-eyed Emperor and that fly-by-night, Nur Mahal.” The Great Mogul "You can't expect me to go routing about after every old fly-by-night stuck in a basement." Sinister Street, vol. 2 "The distributors knew when that fund accumulated to a good-sized sum that we weren't just a fly-by-night outfit that could be pushed around, that we had resources we could rely on." Frying Pan Farm It wasn't any chance job—the work of a fly-by-night tramp or yeggman. Mystery Ranch What gets me is, when you boil our two fly-by-night stories down, I've come here to be alone. Seven Keys to Baldpate I'm teaching her French myself; in a little while she'll pass as a French maid and she will have all the plain common-sense of her Hoosier bringing-up which those fly-by-night French maids don't. Highacres "She certainly has acted like a fly-by-night up to this time." They of the High Trails Yes—I’ll get a family machine for the girls and a light little fly-by-night for myself. The Comings of Cousin Ann Throughout the country local managers began to steal the Madison Square plays and put them on with "fly-by-night" companies. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man She was a fly-by-night and a veritable phantom. As We Sweep Through The Deep I likes your style, and I hopes that young fly-by-night who says my Alf’s a thief will tell him so to his face. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Avoid the fly-by-night shop and its vaunted "bargains." The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book There was some good names on the hall directory; but most of 'em was little, two-room, fly-by-night firms, with a party 'phone for a private wire and a mail-order list bought off'm patent medicine concerns. Torchy Yes, old and ever new, because approaching more nearly perfection than the splashing, floundering, fly-by-night, hysterical, smash-the-ivories school of these latter days. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques CLARK: How come this fly-by-night Methodist preacher over here … ain't been here three months … tries to stand up on my store porch and tries to tell me how to run my town? The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Look at me here, galling my fingers to the bone, and that careless fly-by-night wife o' mine carousin' and gallivantin' down at the 'Sailor's Return'! News from the Duchy The reason for this is that the Frenchman abhors the fly-by-night salesman: he likes to feel that the man with whom he is trading has taken some sort of root in his midst. The War After the War You love me, an actress in a fly-by-night company, a variety artist at the Gayety! Beth Norvell A Romance of the West "If a woman like Louada Murilla will let herself get fooled and stirred up in that kind of a way by a fly-by-night critter, there ain't much hope of the rest of the neighborhood." The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul "I suppose it is one of these little fly-by-night shows!" scoffed Mercy. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies In that row of the fly-by-night and the van-by-day, the moving or the express wagon seldom backed up before No. 28, except immediately preceding a wedding or following a funeral. The Vertical City The IT businesses who had earlier adopted a cautious wait-and-watch policy, realized that this was not a fly-by-night kind of venture, but a serious publication. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press The Court said that this fly-by-night institution was not equal, and it insisted that an equal institution must include equal faculty, equal library, and equal prestige. The Black Experience in America A moment ago, the thought had filled him with a strange exhilaration: the prospect of a final accounting with the intriguing fly-by-night who had wronged him past all forgiveness had set his blood to leaping. Captivating Mary Carstairs A boy, a fly-by-night, to meddle in my affairs! Jean-Christophe Journey's End She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions. Crooked Trails I told him to create the impression that he was a professional wrecker—a sort of fly-by-night junk dealer, who would buy the vessel if he could get her at a great bargain. Cappy Ricks Retires "Toward the West Side—where those fly-by-night garages are all located." Guy Garrick Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger—a fly-by-night—a nobody! The Landloper The boy was too young and still too much of a fly-by-night to have a black mark set against his name. Australia Felix Not on the fly-by-night stuff; I don't mean that. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day But 'tis all like fly-by-night theatricals to me. Cabbages and Kings There was no moon, no stars, no wind; the cattle were noiseless under the trees; there were no owls calling, no night-jars churring, the fly-by-night chafers were not abroad. The Patrician Millot was stumbling, laughing, swearing meaninglessly out of pure satisfaction, pleased with himself for having run down that fly-by-night. Tales of Unrest |
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