Word: rips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
...contrary to popular delusion, the sheltered, self-contained oasis that is Harvard does not exempt its students from the occasional rip-off. Not simply as consumers, but as employees and burgeoning members of the working world, students are potential victims of private fraud and slow death-by-red-tape. Summer employment perhaps enerates the most calamities of all. A classic (and actual) case of summer employment rip-off involved a Harvard student this summer. One student pursued an ad in OCS-OCL's summer jobs file for a head-tennis-pro position, financed her own trip to Washington...
...importance of awareness, without which the consumer or emplyee is at the mercy of private business. The field of consumer awareness is a relatively new and fast-growing one. New do-it-yourself consumer guide books spring forth monthly, designed both to alert the reader to potential rip-off situations and to offer well stocked appendices listing where to go and what to do after the fact. One of the best new books around is aptly entitled Fight Back... And Don't Get Ripped-Off by David Horowitz, NBC's leading consumer reporting specialist. The book boasts an exhaustive index...
...elsewhere, the smugglers are well organized and lavishly financed. "They are better equipped than we are," says Jack Redford of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's hard to beat the cash flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...
...tangled relationships to one conversation, Mamet has chopped out parts of the afternoon by periodically fading out the stage lights. Mamet meagerly doles out the snips of dialogue between fadeouts, but the impact of each line becomes tremendous. The characters do not merely bounce lines off each other, they rip savagely but subtly at each other's hearts, rending them with tense words and rebuilding cautiously and slowly at the same time. "I never had a father...it's my right, isn't it. Isn't it?" the daughter demands, unassailable in her emotion, inconsolable in her situation. "There...