Word: racketeering
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...hate the kids who come trick-or-treating to our house, some of whom might almost be considered cute, even if most of the ones over 8 are running a protection racket. And I don't hate the candymakers, the greeting-card printers or the manufacturers--somewhere in Guangdong Province, China, I guess--who turn out all those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following...
...hate the kids who come trick-or-treating to our house, some of whom might almost be considered cute, even if most of the ones over 8 are running a protection racket. And I don't hate the candymakers, the greeting-card printers or the manufacturers - somewhere in Guangdong Province, China, I guess - who turn out all those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following...
...hundreds. Taking part in a three-day tournament abroad costs at least $1,500 per person, and the kids have to be escorted by their parents. Still, "so many people have dollar signs in their eyes," sighs Larisa Preobrazhenskaya, the legend of Russian tennis, once the first female racket of the U.S.S.R., and coach since 1964 - the one who raised and trained Kournikova. She frets that "crazy tennis parents" motivated by greed are pushing their kids like slaves only to ruin them. It's not just the poor who do it, she says: "Glamour is a more sophisticated drug than...
...1950s. The European consumer wasn’t really helped either, and the Economist estimates that EU agricultural subsidies add over $650 a year to the grocery bill of the average European family, not counting the exorbitant amount of taxes paid to keep the $58-billion-a-year racket running...
BOSTON—Dressed in the crimson and black warm-up uniform of the Harvard tennis team and toting his racket under one arm, University President Lawrence H. Summers joined Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino on a Roxbury tennis court Wednesday morning to celebrate successful summer programs for the city’s youth...