Word: rip-off
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...more and more citizens, long schooled in aggressive defense against external enemies, are turning pent-up energies against their fellows. Since 1971 crime in the small country (pop. 4.5 million) has gone up 21.7%. Robbery is up 50%, juvenile delinquency 12%. When Israeli cops are not rounding up petty rip-off artists, drug pushers and hookers, they work on their country's trickiest police problem: beating terrorists to the explosion...
...tidy rip-off here, a tasteful price-gouge there−it was all to be expected once the Democrats had picked New York City as the site of their convention. But not even the worldly-wise among the press had anticipated the size of the serpents that lurk around the Big Apple and its Garden; Madison Square, that...
...group had started its own recording and production company, Apple Records, which was also meant to serve as a kind of Ford Foundation for the counterculture. The place attracted all sorts of daytrippers, rip-off artists and weirdos. "People were robbing us and living off us," Lennon comments. "Eighteen or 20 thousand pounds a week was rolling out of Apple and nobody was doing anything about...
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Frank Moss, a Democrat from Utah, agrees that these and other measures are urgently needed. Says he: "This is a horrible commentary on our medical delivery system. If this many weaknesses show up in Medicaid, the rip-off will be infinitely larger with national health insurance...
...Times Editorial Page Director Anthony Day crusades against the repeated misuse of certain words (verbally for orally or vice versa, hopefully for one hopes) but goes along with some neologisms. "Part of what keeps a language alive is its constant acceptance of new words and phrases," says Day, citing rip-off as an example...