Word: racketeer
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...rural schools are as much a target of Viet Cong grenades as American military encampments? More than 90 teachers have been slain by the V.C. and another 260 kidnaped since 1960, and many a classroom in the countryside has had its singsong language lessons abruptly interrupted by the staccato racket of a nearby Communist machine...
...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
With all that, Clay can take credit for having doublehanded led boxing out of its racket-infested ignominy. In 1950, total gate receipts in the U.S. had dropped to a nadir of $4,000,000. Thanks to the class that Clay has brought back to the game, the take in 1966 was nearly $11 million...
...peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...
...scale." Organized crime works at cutting "high overhead costs," uses its "equipment or specialized personnel fully." Large operations take advantage of the fact that "where entry can be denied to newcomers, centralized price-setting will yield monopoly rewards to those who control the market." More over, the bigger the racket, "the more formerly 'external' costs will become costs internal to the firm"-and thus under better control. One important "cost" is violence. The big firms, says Schelling, "have a collective interest in keeping down violence to avoid trouble with the public and the police...