Word: rip-off
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...sales involved only a piece of paper being shuffled between desks; the actual oil never changed location. The most celebrated case to date involved the rip-off of Florida Power for as much as $8.5 million. Since that fraud was made public last August by the St. Petersburg Times, FBI agents have uncovered but not yet publicly identified other daisy chains, some apparently centering in Houston. Grand juries are said to be probing into these operations...
...life is tough, you think as you look out over the platform at the surrounding landscape, eyeing the bums lounging in the late-morning sun in front of the local rip-off tavern--the one that raises its prices twice a month, on the days when the welfare checks arrive in the mail--and watching with a sort of morbid curiosity as a crew of teenagers begins harassing a crippled wino as he staggers his way into the local pawn shop to barter away his past for a pint of skull-buster. How the other half lives, and all that...
...into the street to look for a cab. There are none, of course--South Jamaica, despite the presence of the railroad station, is not a smart place to cruise around looking for fares--so you prop yourself, more than a bit self-consciously, against the wall of the Rip-Off Bar and Grille, and wait...
James Schlesinger carried his battle for the Administration's energy program deep into hostile territory last week, traveling to Houston to address a meeting of 3,000 oil and gas executives. They represented the industry that President Carter last month accused of plotting "the greatest rip-off in history," and Schlesinger's mission seemed to be to plead for peace and understanding. He did-but only to a point. Denying the industry's basic complaint that the Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy...
...trouble has been greatly aggravated by Carter's televised assault on the oilmen who oppose his energy program as profiteers out to "rob" American consumers and stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have...