Word: rip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called "dole" was actually military aid by the U.S. and USSR designed to rip the country apart in bloody civil war. But this is conveniently forgotten, as it is inconsistent with our picture of dependent Third Worlders...
Investigators are now zeroing in on the state monopolies for highway construction, petrochemicals, television broadcasting, public transit, water and electricity, where large budgets are tempting targets for graft. Though no one has precise numbers, one study puts the rip-off at $11 billion a year over the past dozen years, a figure coincidentally comparable to Italy's annual public deficit...
...turned loose, the spy service could eventually pay its own way by reducing rip-offs abroad. Trade-secret theft cost U.S. companies more than $100 billion in lost revenues last year. If left unchecked, analysts estimate, the losses could grow an additional 50% by the year...
Murphy acknowledged that credibility has sometimes been a problem for his company. "Everyone has the perception that we're trying to rip off students," Murphy said
...terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. And Liam Neeson, wonderfully direct as Anna's would-be redeemer of a beau, lurches from...