11.   But as he becomes involved in a shady deal with the manager of the disco, his darker, cold-blooded side emerges.

12.   But the companies remained unstructured, with old managers and bloated staffs, and many are controlled by investment funds that have become notorious for shady stock deals.

13.   Critics said some of his fortune came from shady deals with both military and civilian leaders.

14.   Cover-ups and shady deals, reaching even the judiciary.

15.   Laura decided she had just learned the hard way that a shady deal was profoundly better than outright burglary.

16.   Stories are legion about his supposed shady deals.

17.   Still, the industry is plagued by the image of shady deals, an impression the Tarrant County Pawnbrokers Association is trying to change.

18.   A bankrupt steel company at the center of a political scandal has shredded all documents that could possibly show shady deals with government officials, news reports said Thursday.

19.   After all, these kinds of shady deals are clearly market distortions which are supposed to be abolished under the reform package agreed to with the International Monetary Fund.

20.   And much of the cash gravitating toward real estate stems from earlier, slightly shady deals in the same sector.