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"fly-by-night" Definitions
  1. (of a person or business) dishonest and only interested in making money quickly

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Reforming health care is not a fly by night proposition.
This, it turns out, is Fly-by-night, or the Witch's Flower.
Let us also not forget the joy of fly-by-night website Muxtape.
Fly-by-night chemical producers were hard to uncover and punish, he added.
Fly-by-night mountebanks of the 19th century motivated a change in law.
We are not a fly by night, business trying to make a quick buck.
The show's critics say "Fly by Night" disregards the growing sentiment against performing animals.
False news stories posted on fly-by-night websites were prevalent in this election.
But in this new era, subscriber numbers are more important than fly-by-night readership.
That means it's probably less fly-by-night than the company behind the ill-fated TEB.
His recording career with Rush began with the band's second album, "Fly by Night," in 1975.
I miss the "Fly by night" theme songs from the PC games that played when you're traveling.
But this spring, Duke Riley's project "Fly By Night" is fleeting in a rather more literal sense.
Bloch, who hadn't heard of Sequoia and thought it sounded fly-by-night, filed the card away.
So while reliable companies patch their wares every few weeks, many fly-by-night companies never do.
"They want a company that will help them grow, not the fly-by-night startup," Petersen explains.
The artist Duke Riley sides with ardor in "Fly by Night," his new piece for Creative Time.
He's not exactly the fly-by-night-type one thinks of as a likely pill-mill operator.
Related: 2,000 Glowing Pigeons Illuminate the Brooklyn Waterfront  Strapping LEDs to pigeons for Duke Riley's Fly by Night
Considering the lofts, "Fly By Night" is as much an architectural project as it is a performative one.
As a result, there are a bunch of fly-by-night companies that are hawking R.I.P. Prince gear.
We should end the fly-by-night for-profits like Trump University that squeeze profits out of vulnerable families.
But whether Duke Riley's avian-powered performance piece "Fly by Night" constitutes pigeon abuse is a more complicated question.
I list the names to make clear these are large companies with significant budgets, not fly-by-night operations.
Rightly or wrongly, Horobin notes, spelling and grammar errors are often associated with fraudulent or fly-by-night operations.
Fly-by-night adventure companies are taking up untrained climbers who pose a risk to everyone on the mountain.
Anna Faris can focus on her podcast, and The Weeknd can go back to his fly-by-night love life.
But I think it's difficult to leave "Fly By Night" without at least a sense of respect for their dutifulness.
After all, the Journal is not exactly a fly-by-night media company prone to blowing things out of proportion.
He's a fly-by-night operation, who can use the cash infusion and reputation boost of a major murder trial.
With so much cheap virgin polysilicon sloshing about, lean times set in for scrap traders and their fly-by-night suppliers.
At the turn of the last century, regulation brought order to the chaos of competing standards and fly-by-night outfits.
He said they were mainly "fly-by-night" operations likely to shut down and pop up elsewhere to evade law enforcement.
Usually in the past 30 or so games, when Denver meets some fly-by-night "best offensive line," they crush them.
"Fly By Night" is site specific, intended to commemorate New York City's own history of rooftop pigeon lofts, which are disappearing.
USB-C is an industry standard and, like all industry standards, it sometimes gets implemented by fools and fly-by-night outfits.
Think of how many times the show has, for good or ill, instantly defined some fly-by-night figure or news event.
Fifteen years ago the summer landscape was splintered, the exhibition calendar was a hodgepodge and the organizations involved were fly-by-night.
It's not just fly-by-night Kickstarter campaigns making these claims either — big tech companies which do important AI research make similar exaggerations.
The CFPB currently has authority to root our devious and deceptive practices by fly-by-night operations (and others) preying upon average consumers.
Well, apparently, nothing really good: a deluge of scams, requests, appointments, and more from every professional service and fly-by-night operation imaginable.
Riley has been working since last July to realize "Fly By Night," and hype has been steadily building over the past few months.
General admission tickets for Fly By Night are fully reserved, but for a chance to see a performance, you can join the waitlist.
It's unclear how many conversion therapy clinics exist across Ecuador today, because they're fly-by-night operations, but Maas's study asserts there are hundreds.
Many of the fly-by-night sellers are ex-drug dealers, and after the law change, it will go back to being drug dealers.
Its affinity for cute little candies may have you thinking that the AfD is a fly-by-night organization that can just be ignored.
Many of these people criticized Nepal's government for creating an environment that enabled fly-by-night commercial climbing businesses to take on inexperienced adventurers.
The mastermind behind this spectacle is artist and avian aficionado Duke Riley, and his piece, commissioned by Creative Time, is called Fly By Night.
Diaz noted that you can't complain about problems with these purchases because the dealers are usually fly-by-night operations that will disappear quickly.
In contrast, the Rohrabacher/Leahy Amendment runs counter to responsible medicine, enabling fly-by-night operations to sell contaminated products and avoid consumer protections.
This focus on reputation deters competition, as the market is less likely to trust new, potential "fly-by-night" operators that lack these incentives.
He wasn't on Rush's debut record but he joined on for Fly By Night and started contributing most of the lyrics from then on.
Once the initial shock wears off, the formal economy is likely to expand at the expense of fly-by-night traders who deal in cash.
In 2014, it was easy to dismiss Rae Sremmurd as a fly-by-night phenomenon whose appeal was more of a novelty than anything else.
This is a slack performance, especially in an age when, thanks to fly-by-night Internet quotation websites, definitive sources are hard to come by.
"Fly By Night" continues at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (entrance at the intersection of Sands and Navy Streets) every weekend at dusk through June 19.
The first is that these plans won't offer enrollees enough protections from fly-by-night operators who take premiums and don't deliver payouts when needed.
The show is reminiscent of Duke Riley's Fly By Night, which saw the artist strap LEDs to 3,000 pigeons soaring over the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
But 3DFS is not a fly-by-night operation, it's a research lab that's been around for 2.23 years and employs well-known and experienced engineers.
There are the people who suspect ColourPop is simply a fly-by-night brand without real owners, and those who say it's owned by the Illuminati.
They are not medically recognized procedures and are considered inherently unsafe, with some fly-by-night operators injecting patients with liquid cement and even tire sealant.
But guys like Rob and Will showed me that sometimes relationships that are purely sexual, totally fly-by-night couplings can be incredibly exciting and fun.
Before "Fly by Night" opened, the nonprofit arts group that organized it, Creative Time, asked the director of the Wild Bird Fund, Rita McMahon, to inspect.
Fly By Night was partly inspired by the US Navy's historical use of homing pigeons to deliver messages at sea before the widespread use of radio.
If anything, it has sought to have better employee retention, not the kind of fly-by-night relationships with workers more typical of the gig economy.
Companies valued at more than $1 billion look more formidable to competitors, customers, and recruits—and less like the fly-by-night startups they may actually be.
There's also a problem on the other end as fly-by-night purchasers collect VAT on imports and then disappear before that money gets forwarded to government.
On the opening track of "Fly by Night" from 290, Rush's first album with Peart, he begins with guns blazing, tick-tacking through a 7/8 riff.
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.
But it could also end up sending more federal student grants and loans to fly-by-night job training programs without a track record of good results.
It says the idea is to harness digitally stored information to chivvy everyone into behaving more honestly, whether fly-by-night companies or tax- and fine-dodging individuals.
Lystable's vision of seamlessly integrating a growing gig economy workforce with workplaces whose legacy software is designed for full-time staff not fly-by-night freelancers, that's what.
Further investigation revealed that the account was "a fictionalized character being used by the marketing arm of a fly-by-night e-commerce operation" selling Trump-related merchandise.
Creative Time's projects during Ms. Hollander's directorship included Duke Riley's "Fly by Night," featuring lighted pigeons, and Pedro Reyes's "Doomocracy," an immersive installation at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
I was surprised to learn this wasn't some kind of fly-by-night operation — the church has been offering services from the convenience of your car since 1953.
"If states are in charge of authorizing them, it could open up to a bunch of fly-by-night operators," cautions Penn State education policy professor Kevin Kinser.
"In short, it's a real company with real sales and real earnings, not some fly-by-night speculative biotech that might not make any money for years," Cramer said.
"It's like a whack-a-mole game," Mendoza said, characterizing the effort required to keep up with these fly-by-night websites that are perpetually popping up on Facebook.
"These are fly-by-night companies, you shut down down one and five more pop up," said Natalia Abrams, executive director of Student Debt Crisis, a borrower advocacy group.
He's taking the "fake news" label, originally used to describe fly-by-night websites that intentionally deceive readers, and slapping it on organizations with long histories of real journalism.
This isn't necessarily a new foray for them and it shows because they totally have the passion and forethought to make sure this isn't a fly by night endeavor.
Several fursuit review sites have sprung up to help furries find their ideal style, but also to weed out unoriginal, fly-by-night, or otherwise sub-par suit makers.
These piles typically indicate an eviction or fly-by-night exit — of trash left behind that gets pushed to the curb, or else accumulates as the result of collective dumping.
Whether you want to vape plant matter, wax, or…Read more ReadToo many are manufactured by fly-by-night firms and utilize components chosen for discount pricing rather than performance.
But some naive or desperate performers will associate themselves with fly-by-night individuals or agencies, who ask a much lower rate, often in hopes of earning a quick buck.
In announcing the cease-and-desist letters on Wednesday, Schneiderman said these primarily "fly-by-night" operations are trying to take advantage of public fear and concerns over Zika transmission.
The effectiveness of "Fly by Night" reflected this bond, especially in his ability to keep the birds close to the boat rather than allowing them disperse in the city's immensity.
When Lee joined it, the comics industry was the disreputable bottom rung of pulp publishing, with many companies run as fly-by-night operations and mobster-run money laundering schemes.
On any one of the tens of thousands of fly-by-night pharmacy websites, a counterfeit (but perfectly safe and effective) Viagra might be indistinguishable from one that's potentially harmful.
Graffiti has come a long way since the 2000s when fly-by-night taggers sprayed their work on bridge abutments or subway cars then slipped away before the authorities arrived.
Gateway knew that it was in a field where its competitors hadn't gotten past product shots, and there was serious concern about the small guys being fly-by-night companies.
Despite my one friend's insistence that, surely, this was a fly-by-night fad that would be gone by next week, the cafe has been doing a brisk business since 2012.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Fly By Night" continues at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (entrance at the intersection of Sands and Navy Streets) every weekend at dusk through June 12.
Most debt relief scams are fly-by-night businesses, with ever-changing telephone numbers, names, and addresses; once found out, they disappear, then reappear, like a game of whack-a-mole.
In response to all this digital detritus has risen a cottage industry of recyclers, from multi-million-dollar corporations to local nonprofits to fly-by-night, back-of-the-van scammers.
The quintessential Facebook news post is something designed to be shared, whether a positive, Upworthy-type story, or an outrage-baiting partisan blog post on a fly-by-night political site.
A popular technology company that has helped launch thousands of online retail sites has become a favorite tool for fly-by-night businesses looking to cash in on the coronavirus pandemic.
There are dubious organizations dedicated to "repairing" broken ICOs, including CoinJanitor from Cape Town, but the fly-by-night nature of many of these organizations does not bode well for the industry.
Under that approach, if the contractor or franchisee runs a fly-by-night operation with little or no capital, then the upstream company should be pursued as a joint employer, he argued.
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.
While physical retail increases overhead, it does send a message to shoppers that the company is more stable than some other fly-by-night brands found only through Instagram and Facebook ads.
The move might not be considered so worthy of note, were it not for the fact that these are not a bunch of pie-in-the-sky, fly-by-night crypto cowboys.
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.
"If there is any chance that a site in the county is chosen for this fly-by-night, ill-begotten project, I'll tell you where you can find me," one resident said.
"Betsy DeVos is bending over backwards to make it easier for fly-by-night schools to cheat students and bury them in mountains of debt," Senator Elizabeth Warren said in a statement Thursday.
It would have been more believable to the audience if Abby had ever shown a shred of interest in political office, but she hasn't and that's why this feels so fly-by-night.
Instagram also hosts its own sketchy microeconomy — just witness the scourge of Insta-celebrities endorsing dubious health products, or the uptick in fly-by-night consumer brands that market themselves using Instagram ads.
Indeed, much of the bogus US political items generated during the 2016 election didn't emanate from Russian agents, but fly-by-night operations churning out spurious fodder appealing to biases across the political spectrum.
Earlier in the year, we visited artist Duke Riley as he released thousands of pigeons strapped with LEDs, dazzling the East River with twinkling choreography for his Fly by Night collaboration with Creative Time.
"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.
Unscrupulous lawyers, fly-by-night consultants and project developers who either run away with their clients' money or use it for personal use have stained the program, experts on EB-883 visas told CNBC.
One particularly rich source of fly-by-night legislating is an obscure law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the largely overlooked mechanism behind some the most controversial congressional votes these past few weeks.
On the other end of the spectrum, however, are the smaller, fly-by-night brands that care little about editorial content as long as their ads get the desired clicks, according to several ad tech professionals.
Even looking past the vaporware and fly-by-night companies looking to make a quick buck on last year's trends, CES is where every niche consumer technology comes to have its 15 minutes for the year.
Mr. Pallone said he feared that the bill could "open up the possibility of some charlatan, fly-by-night, snake-oil drug company or manufacturer" promoting the use of drugs whose safety had not been established.
At twilight in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Duke Riley releases thousands of birds with LED lights strapped to their legs, illuminating the sky in a choreographed flight pattern as a piece of art titled Fly By Night.
As evening fell over the Brooklyn Navy Yard, once home to the nation's largest naval fleet of carrier pigeons, artist Duke Riley opened an enormous coop and released the homing pigeons of his "Fly by Night" project.
Sachs said the 333 process has been a huge waste of time and taxpayer money, and said that the process led to a lot of people being taken advantage of by fly-by-night 333 exemption lawyers.
Based on the real-life Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a fly-by-night promo of all-women wrestlers, GLOW follows Ruth Wilson, a struggling actress-turned-wrestler, and the surprise success and satisfaction she finds in wrestling.
Parts of the media, however, chose to read Gary's tale somewhat differently — as the story of the American public getting duped once again by another fly-by-night internet celebrity who let us down by being imperfect.
Initially, Ascendance seemed like the sort of fly-by-night operation that would pop up to make a few headline-grabbing claims, maybe raise some Kickstarter funding, and then fade away quietly when it ran out of money.
"The Obama administration is now engaged in a cover-up of their fly-by-night untraceable cash airlift to Iran, the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism," senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a statement late Thursday.
It recently imposed a registration fee to discourage attempts by agencies to change their names frequently to avoid putting workers in full-time jobs once temporary contracts have expired, and to clamp down on fly-by-night operators.
Getting those certifications is a lengthy and expensive process, and the special fabric that filters out tiny particles has been in extremely short supply, so many fly-by-night factories have been pumping out counterfeit or incomplete masks.
The man arrested for renting that fly-by-night flat in Saint Denis, Jawad Bendaoud, had been sentenced to eight years in prison for the accidental killing of a man he described as his "best friend" over a cellphone.
The stars, who have spent the last two years in a behind-the-scenes fight with fly-by-night internet companies, filed a lawsuit as part of an effort to stop fake online endorsements, a growing problem for Hollywood.
But part of the problem, he explained, was that many hoverboards had been sold by pop-up kiosks such as those in malls or college campuses — fly-by-night retailers that can be harder to track down or contact.
In the case of a large company like Dish, a massive judgment like last year's $180 million one may end up being paid in full — but individuals and small, fly-by-night businesses are considerably harder to pin down.
Rather than throwing their considerable wealth -- they are both billionaires -- at fly-by-night political operations, they built their own from scratch, with an eye not toward short-term gains but to affecting longer-term changes in the culture.
The full game is going to have an overarching campaign where you lead a band of mercenaries from contract-to-contract, slowly growing from a fly-by-night operation of mechanized goons into a first-rate, full-service military contractor.
Just like the club's improbably long run in a fickle industry, Fever was no fly by night operation—it ran the full '230s gamut with wild Thursdays that left many a strung-out raver on Friday mornings from 1992 to 2001.
From my experience, it seemed likely that "Fly by Night" — a performance by 2,000 pigeons conducted by the multitalented artist and bird maven Duke Riley in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — would be more fun to read about than to observe.
He adopted more pigeons for "Fly By Night," so around half of the performance's participants belong to him; the rest are on loan from his friends in the tight-knit pigeon-keeping community (Riley is part of the Brooklyn Pigeon Crew).
But the enormous demand for cybersecurity know-how is also creating opportunities for fly-by-night operators with dubious track records, said James Lewis, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a security think tank.
"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. Hemp Authority, an industry group that certifies CBD cosmetics and dietary supplements.
Throughout the 216s, 80s, and 90s—that is, before the internet and large-scale piracy—rare and unauthorized releases fed into rock 'n' roll lore, while fly-by-night record labels made a killing off of their unofficial live LPs and CDs.
More curiously, it was founded not by some fly-by-night 1-800-SPLIT-NOW type but by Laura Wasser, the affluent Beverly Hills-adjacent lawyer who has represented Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Jennifer Garner and Christina Aguilera, among other famous clients.
With the LED lights replacing what would usually be notes or other lightweight objects, the "Fly By Night" pigeons aren't just showcasing their role as couriers; they're displaying their skills and their ability to serve humans in situations beyond our own faculties.
Though the slave trade was outlawed in England several years before Sarah landed on its shores (after being seduced in South Africa with promises of lucre by a fly-by-night entrepreneur), she is by no means treated like a free woman there.
"I do think," he said, "that we would have incentives to maintain their good will in the way that the sort of fly-by-night debt collectors that Congress was seeking to target 40 years ago" did not when it enacted the law.
The floating roost, currently docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, sets the stage for "Fly By Night," a performance created by artist Duke Riley and commissioned by Creative Time that sees the flock flying over the shipyard every weekend from May through mid-June.
The article "At Core of 53Pointz Trial: Is Graffiti Art Protected by Law?" begins: 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.
Her deadpan delivery on Baskets is drier than an unsalted saltine, making her the perfect comic foil for Galifianakis's broad strokes as Chip, a classically trained clown stuck doing rodeo work and his twin brother, Dale, the fedora-wearing owner of a fly-by-night career college.
But if we've already accepted that Facebook erases these distinctions, it's hard to argue, from the standpoint of the average Facebook user, that establishment media companies—not just fly-by-night blogs in Eastern Europe—have fallen victim to their own brand of falsehoods and misinformation, too.
One of Secretary DeVos' first actions on higher education was to delay a critical rule preventing fly-by-night colleges from loading students up with gigantic debts for worthless degrees, a move that directly benefited those same colleges that have paid Eitel and Hansen for years.
Though Facebook technically asks apps not to sell user information to data brokers, researchers say that enforcement is rare and that many fly-by-night companies have historically popped up, gathered information, and then sold that data (or sold the entire company itself) to marketing firms and data brokers.
When conservative Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that as a debt collector Santander has less incentive to maintain goodwill, Santander's attorney Kannon Shanmugam countered that the company is not the kind of "fly-by-night" operation the law targets, and it might seek to sell other financial products to the clients.
With his license to practice briefly suspended, his days consumed largely by community service and his mind plagued with guilt over revealing his brother's mental illness in court, Jimmy tapped into his natural showmanship to start a fly-by-night ad agency for local businesses under his future nom de guerre, Saul Goodman.
With a congressional seat now in the balance, sworn testimony this week in the North Carolina capital has illuminated the inner workings of Mr. Dowless's precise but amateurish operation, an almost fly-by-night enterprise that paid about $3 for every collected absentee ballot request and $2.50 for each collected absentee ballot.
"Fly by Night," which was presented by the non-profit organization Creative Time, comes three years after Riley's 2013 performance piece "Trading With the Enemy," in which trained pigeons carried cigars from Havana to Key West, Florida, to protest the U.S. embargo of Cuba and challenge American spying capabilities since the birds evade surveillance equipment.
Creative Time is a public arts organization known for putting on less furtive works, like Duke Riley's "Fly by Night," last year, in which pigeons outfitted with LED lights took to the night sky over the Brooklyn Navy Yard like flocks of stars, and a recent, politicized haunted house called "Doomocracy" at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
His football career consisted of four seasons at Western Harnett High School in North Carolina and one with a team called the Bay State Titans in a fly-by-night semipro league called the Minor League Football System, where Swann played "against plumbers and bartenders, bloated ex-high school jocks past their prime," in the words of sportswriter Ray Diddinger.
To Betsy DeVos, school choice is not simply the inherent right that every parent has to choose their child's educational setting, it is all about requiring taxpayers to pick up the tab for that parent's private individual choice, regardless of whether the parent chooses a public school, a charter school, a nonprofit private school, a religious school or even a fly-by-night online virtual school.
" Representative Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said that reputable drug companies would not provide drugs to patients without the blessing of the F.D.A. 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.
I know how it feels, because as a young man I flew for fly-by-night cargo operators in the United States and suffered most of the survivable failures known to pilot-kind — engine failure, engine fire, electrical failure, electrical fire, radio failure, radar failure, pressurization failure, wing-flap failure, landing-gear failure, gyroscopic failure, airspeed-indication failure, altimeter failure, anti-ice failure, personal (girlfriend) failure, tail-tin-canning lightning-strike failure and trim failures at least four times.
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