Word: extortionists
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Malcolm L. Kaufman, a member of the Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant protections, calls area rents "totally obscene," astronomical," and "extortionist," and asks, "who the hell pays this kind of money for rent...
...Rents here are totally obscene," says Kaufmanof the Cambridge Tenants Union. "They areastronomical, extortionist. Who the hell pays thiskind of money for rent...
Kauffman alternatively called area rents "astronomical" and "extortionist...
Roughly 10% of the correspondents, however, were furious with Milken for his confessed criminal activities, which included the manipulation of securities prices. John Weigel, a financial consultant in Costa Mesa, Calif., called Milken "merely a financial extortionist on a Capone-esque scale that demands punishment on a similar scale." Concurred Miami attorney J.B. Spence: "It will be incredibly disheartening to the American public if the sentence is a mere slap on the wrist...
...like blini on May Day. An initial printing of 500,000 copies sold out faster than the lines could form at the bookshops. As this classic supply-and- demand problem mocked Marxist economics, the cost of the novel rose from the official price of 2.5 rubles ($4.20) to an extortionist 25 rubles on the black market. Plans at Sovietsky Pisatel and Moskovsky Rabochy, the popular author's two publishers, call for at least 2.4 million additional hardbacks in Russian, plus editions in Ukrainian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian...