Word: racketeered
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...Suzhi, party secretary in Zhejiang province, blithely canceled more than $200,000 in debts owed the state by some Hong Kong merchants, who had bought apartments in China. Zheng was rewarded by the beneficiaries with an invitation to Hong Kong and $6,000 worth of electronic equipment. When his racket was exposed, Zheng received no punishment beyond "discipline within the party...
Evan's frustration mounted visibly in the second set. After throwing her racket at the wall in frustration, she handed the match over by double faulting twice at 4-4 to give Fusco the crucial lead in the 10th game...
Justice Department attorneys say Rich and Green created a racket in which their company earned at least $71 million by selling crude oil at several times the Government-regulated price during 1980 and '81. Then they allegedly shipped the money out of the U.S. to escape income taxes. The 1981 tax return for their U.S. subsidiary, for example, declares profits of only $2.4 million, but the Government estimates its earnings were at least $50 million more. While sifting through hundreds of thousands of Rich's business records, federal agents also uncovered evidence to accuse Rich and Green...
...situation suggests that the better part of valor is deception. The journalist lowers a microphone from the bureau's balcony to record the racket of civil war, and dubs in a scripted battle scene that includes the voice of a Palestinian guerrilla, played by the Lebanese office manager. The effect is similar to a realistic novel whose ironic task is to trick readers into believing they are getting things as they...
Ledford, his eye on a buck, would like to market the artificial onion. The thing was, he explained, he wanted to put the registered trademark of the Vidalia sweet onion, a cartoonish character called the Yumion (sort of the Pillsbury Doughboy of the onion racket), on his product, and for that he needed permission from the Chamber. Walden said he would bring it up at the next board meeting, but he suspected Ledford "could bank on it." The editor bounded out, a happy...