Word: bilked
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...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...
...millions of other Americans have made it a normal practice to bilk large sums of money out of Uncle Sam at tax time. Says William J. Anderson, the director of the General Accounting Office's general government division: "Extensive evidence shows that non-compliance among both corporate and individual taxpayers is a serious problem, and is getting worse." Adds Theodore Hanson, a partner in the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.: "Both tax avoidance and nonreporting are on the rise. With tax brackets rising so high, so fast, more people have the attitude of evade...
Steven Jobs of Apple Computer began his rise to fame and fortune by inventing a device to bilk the phone companies on long-distance calls. He should be classed with the "sleazy operators," not the "risk takers...
...headquarters for the program's SCTV satellite net work. Its production offices are located between an H&R Block tax center and a nuclear-waste disposal dump. SCTV President Guy Caballero, a sleazebag in a modified Panama and a white three-piece blend, appears frequently on-camera to bilk, berate or fawn before his audience. Un like one former President of the U.S., who did not like to be photo graphed in his wheelchair, President Caballero will not show up in public without his. He has no physical need for it, understand; he merely finds it useful for inviting...