Word: deadbeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reissmeier's invasion of the Iranian embassy last week was the latest incident in a private cold war between the citizens of Bonn and the West German capital's deadbeat diplomats. Reissmeier claimed the Iranians owed him $50 for his work in the embassy gardens. The Iranians took refuge in diplomatic immunity, and since Gardener Reissmeier could not collect legally, he took revenge in shattered glass...
Bankers insist that the national, all-purpose credit-card clubs are having even more serious trouble, involving losses from deadbeat customers and chiseling proprietors. Nowadays, when a customer flashes his credit card, many restaurants and hotels that subscribe to the plan bill him directly, to avoid the 5%-7% commission charged by the clubs. The clubs have recently been forced to hike their annual membership fees to $8 (from $5 and $6) in an effort to make money on customers who charge less than $200 a year...
Like Zaitsev, whose sole aim was to dodge his alimony payments, many oppressed Russian husbands try to start life afresh with forged documents and new names. The Soviet press recently reported the cases of three other tricksters, including a marital deadbeat named Nikolai Borinchuk who married four times in eight years and shuffled off his marital obligations each time by faking death; police are still looking...
...Mother!" But the farther from the Pentagon the Army gets, the better it looks. Since 1957, the Army has shucked off nearly 100,000 of its deadbeat "professional privates" that once cluttered up the ranks. A startling 83% of the enlisted men are in the Army for a career. Roughly one-third of all active-duty first lieutenants have had either ranger or paratrooper training. In the Seventh Army, nearly 75% of the officers above the rank of first lieutenant have had combat experience. "The Russian soldier is not nine feet tall to us," says General Bruce Clarke, commander...
...pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride in New York's Finest, and along the way became just about the city's best police boss since Teddy Roosevelt stalked the night streets rooting out deadbeat cops...