A form of fraud, using a fake savings & loan, to bilk lower and middle class honest people out of their savings.
"Charles Keating was sentenced to a max. of 10 years in prison for his S&L Scandal, selling junk bonds out of his savings & loan company."
"A whole bunch of the elderly lost their life savings when they invested in a local savings & loan office, which then claimed bankruptcy, leaving the board rich and the investors broke."
"A whole bunch of the elderly lost their life savings when they invested in a local savings & loan office, which then claimed bankruptcy, leaving the board rich and the investors broke."
by faichild_stardust November 25, 2011
Get the S&L Scandal mug.(1954-1981) Bobby Sands, born Robert Gerard Sands, was an Irish martyr who gave his life so that his fellow Irishmen may one day be free. Sands was arrested and sentenced to fourteen years in Northern Ireland's infamous Long Kesh prison without a fair trial. There, Sands was treated much in the same way that other, more well known political prisoners, such as Nelson Mandela, were treated. Sands and his comrades suffered horrible abuse at the hands of prison guards and were deprived of the basic rights all political prisoners are garunteed, such as the right to not wear a prison uniform, the right to free association with other prisoners, and the right not to do prison work. In order to protest this unfair treatment, Sands and his comrades went on what is referred to as a "hunger strike". Basicaly, Sands refused to eat until the rights of his comrades were given back. Seeing that Sands was an elected member of British Parliament, nobody thought the British government would allow such a strike to last long. However, sixty six days after the strike began, the rights of the prisoners were still not granted, and Sands died due to self imposed starvation. Following Sands' death, nine other men died in the hunger strike. Finally, the strike was called off on October 3rd,1981 when the British government granted the rights that were demanded by Sands and the other participants.
The death of Sands caused outrage across the globe. Some of the international reactions include:
-In Milan, 5,000 students burned the Union Flag and shouted "Freedom for Ulster" during a march
-In Oslo, demonstrators threw a balloon filled with tomato sauce at Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom.
-In New York City, there was a 24 hour boycott of British goods.
-In Paris, thousands marched behind huge portraits of Sands, to chants of 'The IRA will conquer'.
-In Hartford, Connecticut a memorial was dedicated to Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers in 1997, the only one of its kind in the United States.
-The New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, voted 34-29 for a resolution honouring his "courage and commitment."
-In 2001, a memorial to Sands and the other hunger strikers was unveiled in Havana, Cuba.
-The Hindustan Times, India's largest newspaper said Margaret Thatcher had allowed a fellow Member of Parliament to die of starvation, an incident which had never before occurred "in a civilised country."
The death of Sands caused outrage across the globe. Some of the international reactions include:
-In Milan, 5,000 students burned the Union Flag and shouted "Freedom for Ulster" during a march
-In Oslo, demonstrators threw a balloon filled with tomato sauce at Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom.
-In New York City, there was a 24 hour boycott of British goods.
-In Paris, thousands marched behind huge portraits of Sands, to chants of 'The IRA will conquer'.
-In Hartford, Connecticut a memorial was dedicated to Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers in 1997, the only one of its kind in the United States.
-The New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, voted 34-29 for a resolution honouring his "courage and commitment."
-In 2001, a memorial to Sands and the other hunger strikers was unveiled in Havana, Cuba.
-The Hindustan Times, India's largest newspaper said Margaret Thatcher had allowed a fellow Member of Parliament to die of starvation, an incident which had never before occurred "in a civilised country."
by UlsterFreedom July 15, 2009
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On YouTube, any song that someone doesn't know. If you ask what song it is (especially on gaming videos) everyone will tell you "Darude-Sandstorm"
*Goes to comments section on Halo 5 trailer
User1: What song is this
Me: Its knights of cydonia by Muse!!!!!!
User2: No its not Matt Bellamy is stoopid. This is darude-sandstorm
User1: What song is this
Me: Its knights of cydonia by Muse!!!!!!
User2: No its not Matt Bellamy is stoopid. This is darude-sandstorm
by funwillfunwill January 20, 2016
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Get the Sandscape mug.A Hero and martyr who died on hunger strike on 5th may 1981 in the h block, after 66 days without food. True legend.
Prod: That guy in the end of armageddon blew himself up, what a hero!
Catholic: Yeah try starving yourself to death for 66 days, like Bobby Sands, yeah now thats BALLS!
Catholic: Yeah try starving yourself to death for 66 days, like Bobby Sands, yeah now thats BALLS!
by DICKWADDELL September 12, 2010
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-Just wait until our little plan to humiliate Gams is a success.
-Oh, that will surely be scandalous!
-Oh, that will surely be scandalous!
by Sadester May 30, 2006
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To use persuasive and often dishonest tactics behind people's backs in order to achieve one's own personal, and often deviant, goals.
Rooted form Sheldon Jeffrey SANDS; a character from the movie "Once Upon a Time in Mexico."
To use persuasive and often dishonest tactics behind people's backs in order to achieve one's own personal, and often deviant, goals.
Rooted form Sheldon Jeffrey SANDS; a character from the movie "Once Upon a Time in Mexico."
by Shockazooloo June 10, 2007
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