Word: bilked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the top of the food chain is Salomon's CEO, who presides with a smooth amalgam of drive and hypocrisy, speaking loftily of social issues and encouraging his staff to bilk the clients. Below him are ranks of predators, among them a man so dedicated to consumption that he is labeled "the Human Piranha"; a Briton so chilly to his colleagues that he is called "Sir Sangfroid"; an irritable trader who throws a phone at his clerk every time he passes...
...Boston Edison power company has mismanaged the Pilgrim nuclear plant and used it to bilk the public, an activist research group argues in a recent report...
...entry vehicles on Minuteman missiles. After its indictment eight weeks ago, GE had consistently denied any wrongdoing. The company suddenly changed its story last week on learning that Roy Baessler, a manager on the Minuteman work, had admitted to investigators that he knowingly participated in a scheme to bilk the Pentagon...
...federal investigators claim to have been aware of skimming operations since the early 1960s. The process is simple: a culprit pockets some of the gambling proceeds and reports the income to be less than it actually was. The result is to bilk federal and state tax collectors of millions. FBI bugs, planted without court approval in executive offices at the casinos, turned up evidence of both the skimming and the Mob's not-so-secret control. But this evidence could not be used in court...
...wheel of fortune rotates their way; they're monsters, powerful beyond comprehension, willful beyond any defense. Women who aren't beautiful enough to get you coming after them of your own accord--assuming you're a regular guy--are nevertheless unstoppable freaks; if nothing else, they'll bilk you for the price of dinner. Women who are beautiful and know how to use it--like the shopgirls in Robert's lunch date--are whores. You can see it just by looking around you. And if a smart man like Frederick Barthelme, who knows so well how to express himself, sees...