Word: rip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazine has changed solely for the reason that in our new building, the magazine office no longer floods. We don't have to set mousetraps under the old layout tables and at our computer terminals; we no longer have chairs that rip our clothing...
KILLING IS A QUESTION of proximity. Before the war started last year, a Kuwaiti girl, identified only by the name Nayirah, testified before the House Human Rights Committee that she had seen Iraqi soldiers rip Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and throw them on the cold floor to die. It was a horrifying story, and according to 60 Minutes, President Bush quoted it at least 10 times as a reason...
...there be anything but contempt for politicians who decry the projected $365 billion federal deficit even as they pour more and more dollars into their pet programs? Is there a case for the Keating Five and the way those purblind Senators opened their doors to convicted savings and loan rip- off artist Charles Keating -- not to mention the purblind way in which the Senate ethics committee investigated the offense? Will anyone speak up for Senators and Representatives who run against Congress back home but who are all too eager to rejoin the club once they are safely back inside...
PROS: Timely. Offers yet another chance to rip apart poorly reasoned naturalistic fallacies. Provides obvious opportunity to take George Michael's "Sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is best when it's one-on-one" lyrics out of context...
...honor system, but some of them cheat. Fraud may account for as much as $75 billion of annual U.S. health-care expenditures, according to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. Last June California officials uncovered the biggest single medical fraud to date, a $1 billion rip-off carried out by thieves operating clinics on wheels. Investigators say the clinics offered patients free tests and exams, then used their insurance information to generate a huge number of fake bills. In a similar scam in New York City, a doctor billed Medicaid for $50,000 worth of lab tests...