Word: ripoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's "ripoff" press conference restored my faith that at least there was one person willing to take a stand for the millions of Americans these oil prices will concern most...
President Carter should examine the Government's unfair double-taxation policies before accusing the oil companies of a "ripoff" [Oct. 24]. The Government taxes the companies for producing energy, and the public for consuming gasoline at the pump. It is the Government that is ripping everyone off with its taxation of both the producer and consumer...
Psychedelic Statement. If this were all, Beatlemania might be dismissed as an ingenious multimedia ripoff. But Producer Steven Leber, 34, who thought the whole thing up, and his partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that...
...Tulsa World assailed "the gutless way the pay raise was done." Mayor David Burrell of Watonga, Okla., asked residents of his city to fly their flags at half-staff to mourn the "pay-raise ripoff' that Congress "had snuck through." Complained Malcolm Johnson, editor of the Tallahassee Democrat: "You can't find...
Survive! is a quickie rip-off of a quickie ripoff. Exploiting the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which 16 of the 45 Uruguayans aboard survived by eating the flesh of those who had died, a Mexican company brought out an instant tamale version of the saga. Allan Carr, 39, an epicene Hollywood talent manager and promoter, snapped up the film...