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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suborn.

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  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • The Puritan poet pre-empts the entire field of English epic poetry in this work, and he suborns the motifs and tropes of Homer and Virgil, reversing the role of heroics to display the difference between Christian and Pagan themes.

    MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • What could be worse than deliberately growing massively by making loans likely to default, converting large amounts of bank assets to the personal benefit of the senior officers looting the bank and to those the CEO suborns to assist his looting (appraisers, auditors, attorneys, economists, rating agencies, and politicians), while simultaneously providing minimal capital (extreme leverage) and only grossly inadequate loss reserves, and causing bubbles to hyper-inflate?

    William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 1: Put Bank of America in Receivership William K. Black 2010

  • The lesson is clear: torture suborns intellect to passion, compromising the reason required of the just warrior.

    Is ‘The Dark Knight’ an Affirmation of the ‘War on Terror’? | Disinformation 2008

  • Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Electric cars and solar power are here, now, and can solve our economic and pollution problems.

    Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health 2009

  • OpEdNews - Article: Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health

    Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health 2009

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