Word: bilked
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...introduced the legislation last year, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois warned that computer theft could be as high as $3 billion per year. Even with stepped-up law enforcement, companies themselves will have to be much more vigilant. The MAPS scandal showed how simple it is to bilk a bank electronically. Though the scheme was discovered, the alleged leader had plenty of time to drop out of sight and reportedly to stash much of the missing $21 million in numbered Swiss bank accounts. By Charles Alexander. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles and Paul A. Witteman/San Francisco
...from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer's wealth, Bill decides to use the ravishing Abby to bilk the farmer out of his fortune. No sooner does the scheme get going, however, than Abby falls in love with her prey...
...Reception for Minority Freshmen and Parents, Boylston Hall. If you are not a minority student, hand around in the Yard, watch others moving in. Make nasty comments. Play frisbee. If your parents are still around, bilk them into a meal at an expensive restaurant, where you will doubtless see most of the rest of your class and their parents...
...your parents are still here, gently inform them that the absolute deadline for parental departure is right after dinner. That way, you can bilk yet another free meal out of them (this will become the basis of your relationship with them for the next four years) and they can spend time with their baby, their brand new Ivy League genius. Warn them that if they don't depart by them a gignatic parentvacuum tours the Yard at 9 p.m. If your parents weren't here to begin with or they've already taken the hint and taken off, find yourself...
...voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to legalize casino gambling in that neglected aunt of Eastern resorts, money has poured into the city as if gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind up cozily close to home. "Most people can't afford to go to Vegas," notes one booster, already trying...