Word: rip-off
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...Today there are in the whole world only some 3,000 rich and fashionable women who wear clothes hand-made by the 23 haute couture houses of Paris. To evoke their celebrated sighs, provoke the fashion press and attract the foreign manufacturers and department-store buyers in search of rip-off grail, a legion of designers, buyers, cutters, seamstresses, midinettes, mannequins and pressers labor mightily to produce the two big shows, for summer and winter...
This "shortfall" surprises many winners and outrages some lottery critics. Walter Fackler, a business professor at the University of Chicago, calls his state's lottery "the Illinois rip-off." Says he: "The advertising is downright misleading. If private enterprise used such tactics, the Federal Trade Commission would be on its heels in a minute...
...computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license plates...
Survive! is a quickie rip-off of a quickie ripoff. Exploiting the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which 16 of the 45 Uruguayans aboard survived by eating the flesh of those who had died, a Mexican company brought out an instant tamale version of the saga. Allan Carr, 39, an epicene Hollywood talent manager and promoter, snapped up the film...
...medieval record-keeping system bulging with 5? million case files. Concedes Robert Farmer, the bureau's claims director: "We're the biggest casualty insurance company in the world, but you can almost write your name backward and get a claim. It's ripe for rip...