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Critics say that these prebilling conditions are no more than a way to put the risks of building the pipeline on the shoulders of consumers. Said House Democrat Harold Volkmer of Missouri: "This is one big rip...
After each chapter, the authors put together short "style quotient tests," so that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...
Thus went Operation Big Crunch, endorsed by none other than the august French jewelry firm of Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...
...quality." Tuition can be as low as $225, as high as $2,500 per year. But whatever they cost, the schools do seem to excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school...
Wiggins confessed to the rip-off in a statement to the bank, though he pleaded that it all began when he promised a loan to an unqualified customer. At the same time, confirmed Peck, he deeded over all his assets to Allied, and even agreed to a bank demand that he give up any literary rights he might have or acquire - in case he decided, for example, to try his hand at writing a book about his ca per. In early April the bank sold much of Wiggins' cattle holdings for $2.4 million...