Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welcome to Meehan Auditorium--the Slumberdome, the Palace of Deep Sleep, the House that Rip Van Winkle Built...
...issue was Hallmark's Personal Touch series, a two-year-old line of 83 cards that feature long, syrupy poems adorned by picturesque natural landscapes. In their $100 million suit, the Schutzes contended that the Hallmark products were rip-offs of cards and posters they had been producing since the early 1970s. In May a U.S. appeals court agreed. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and now Hallmark has agreed to stop publishing the Personal Touch cards, buy back existing cards in the line from some 21,000 Hallmark outlets in the U.S. and pay the Schutzes...
Talk about rip-offs. Even the most hardened residents of Detroit's crime- ridden East Side have been stunned by the latest target of some enterprising robbers: aluminum siding. The off-the-wall trend began last year, when siding suddenly began disappearing from abandoned houses around the neighborhood. More recently, aluminum rustlers, emboldened by the local cops' relaxed attitude toward the thefts, have taken to prying off the siding from the garages of occupied homes. Even lawn chairs are no longer safe...
...facilities for athletes, while excellent by Soviet standards, sometimes reflect their age and heavy communal use. At Brothers Znamensky, a complex that is nearly 20 years old, the pole-vault cushion has a large rip, many < hurdles are broken, the indoor track is bumpy; and patches of grass sprout through the outdoor track. Nor is coaching always lavish. Although the Soviets have been a world power in women's basketball for decades, Center Olessya Barel was wowed during an American tour last year. Says she: "Facilities across the U.S. are of a much higher standard than ours, and they have...
...perfect only in its ghoulish symbolism: the perpetrators allegedly drew blood from poor people, paying them as little as 50 cents a vial, then falsely claimed the samples came from Medicaid patients and billed the Government for millions of dollars' worth of bogus laboratory tests. The alleged Medicaid rip-off, for which a physician and nine others were indicted in New York City, was only the most lurid example in a chain gang of new and continuing fraud cases that shuffled across front pages last week. In virtually every one of half a dozen scams, members of the public...