Word: rip-off
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Theft of office equipment is nothing new in Manhattan, but the latest rip-off story tears at the heart strings. Two well-dressed men walked into one of the fancier nursing homes on the Upper East Side during visiting hours and were soon afterward seen solicitously wheeling a 90-year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket...
...were ice cold. The voice, normally subdued, even soporific, was suddenly brittle. Not since John Kennedy assailed steel-industry leaders 15 years ago* for abruptly raising prices had an American President so harshly attacked a band of business executives. Jimmy Carter accused U.S. oil companies of seeking "the biggest rip-off in history." of trying to "rob" American consumers, of "potential war profiteering" in the battle over energy. Declaring that "enormous amounts of money" are involved in his beleaguered energy program, the President charged that "the oil companies apparently want...
...thing to accuse the oil companies of a profits rip-off and quite another to prove it. Time and again, critics of the industry have denounced Big Oil's profits as everything from exorbitant to obscene. But not even Senator Henry Jackson, the industry's arch-opponent, has succeeded in making the charge stick...
...majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves or their children. Its members are victims and victimizers in the culture of the street hustle, the quick fix, the rip-off and, not least, violent crime...
...their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent who has lived in Djibouti many years. "They get rich and Djibouti gets nothing. That's not enlightened colonialism. It's a bloody rip...