Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only do supposedly respectable people cheat on their taxes-federal, state and local-but supposedly respectable institutions help them do it. "Take someone who has just bought $1,000 worth of clothing," says Connecticut Revenue Commissioner Orest Dubno. "The store can ship a necktie somewhere out of state, so it can show a UPS address and receipt, and the buyer avoids the state sales tax. Actions such as these contribute to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
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Another driver, Philip Kelsey, said leasing would be bad for the public. "Leasing gives drivers motivation to cheat customers because they want to cover their rent quickly," he said...
...consensus closer to 17.5 million bbl. of production and a new benchmark price of $29. Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, realizing that the burden of a low production quota will fall on his country, rejected the proposal by Algeria and Venezuela with the comment: "Everyone would cheat...
...food supplies are bountiful when compared with those in the U.S.S.R., yet many citizens feel that the Czechoslovak Communist Party has broken its pledge by failing to ensure stable prices and no shortages. The popular response, so far at least, is to cheat a bit more, which could be an extraordinary feat in this economy. The Czechs were once famous throughout Europe for their strict orderliness and scrupulous honesty, but that reputation is now tarnished. Everyone cuts a corner here, steals something there. Lubomir, for example, is a 34-year-old boiler repairman in the city of Brno. His monthly...