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...Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need By Daniel H. Pink Riverhead; 160 pages...
...know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting to sound humble and folksy ... all the while struggling grimly to look natural, Nixon seems to emerge as a kind of bunko artist ... the film is hardly likely to win praise for fighting fair...
Originally a Victorian parlor game, bunco made its way to the U.S. in the mid-1850s as a gambling game known first as "banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko." During the Gold Rush, a crooked gambler in San Francisco is said to have used the game to bilk some Forty-Niners out of their money, turning its name into a general term for cons. In 1996 Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather...
...have never been able to rise to the level of the Bill Clinton bunko squad, where we can get money directly from a Riady family or someplace in China. However, I understand the executives of Fox are meeting with Time Inc. and are going to get some tips over there...
...under-disclosing to clients the risks associated with this very risky business, but also have been arranging trader-to-trader loans, thus ensuring the flow of commissions while the trader, often, sinks deeper into debt. Such loans, said Massachusetts regulator William Galvin, are brokered "using the same rhetoric as bunko artists and Ponzi schemes...