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...consumer end of the business that sparks the most complaints. Many pitches to homes are not only annoying but also criminal: phony offers of Florida real estate and other telescams bilk households out of as much as $40 billion a year. Both houses of Congress passed bills to enable regulators to crack down harder on such abuses after FBI agents raided 95 telemarketing offices and arrested 210 people on suspicion of fraud earlier this year. The measures will now go to a House-Senate conference committee, with a final version expected to reach President Clinton's desk this fall...
Sure, hyperactive Jeremy Knowles can yell about austerity all he wants. Vaguely articulate Neil Rudenstine can mumble murky metaphors about tubs and bottoms to his heart's content. The University can scheme about clever ways to bilk $2 billion out of unsuspecting alumni until the Charles freezes over...
...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...