Word: rip
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...money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own countries, pondering price tags and trying to decide if that new sweater or pack of beer is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.6 francs to 1[Euro]. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess: "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times...
Accepting the new money is one thing. Getting used to it will take a little longer. For the next few weeks, Europeans will live like tourists in their own country, pondering over price tags trying to decide if that new sweater or television set is a bargain or a rip-off. Most Italians will no longer be millionaires, and the French will have to cope with the fiddly exchange rate of 6.56 francs to ?1. ("It's easy," says another Paris greengrocer, displaying his mathematical prowess. "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times...
...very scholarly athlete) wrote in an e-mail that, among other things, the column was “terrible,” that “no girl wants to date you anymore,” and that “every athlete wants to rip your face off.” The excerpts have been cleaned up so as not to offend The Crimson’s family readership or those who value good spelling...
...might never have been heard outside the Camp Upton rehearsal hall. The song did a Rip Van Winkle, sleeping for 20 years until Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, asked Berlin if he had a patriotic song Smith might sing to mark the 20th anniversary of Armistice Day. Berlin had been in Europe a few weeks before and seen close-up the international cataclysm of the Munich Conference, where Chamberlain of Britain, declaring "peace in our time," capitulated to Hitler of Germany. Digging out his old song, Berlin demilitarized the lyric (no more "Make her victorious") and depoliticized...
This may be the season for giving, but that's no reason to let retailers rip you off, especially online. Whether you're an old hand at Web shopping or one of the many Americans trying it for the first time this year, you should always check out at least one price-comparison website before...