Word: rips
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Daum said he omitted this information because he didn't want to be disturbed at home, adding "I didn't go into business to rip people off and I'm not going out of business ripping people...
...Diplomacy, Wriston has pushed Citibank into the forefront of the banking revolution symbolized by automatic teller machines. Low interest rate ceilings on passbook deposits, he maintains, discourage the savings that are desperately needed to spur investment. Says he with characteristic bluntness: "We're being forced to rip off the public. The savers are subsidizing the borrowers...
...Jones). He causes some trouble, but turns out to be useful and good-natured when new difficulties arise in the course of their odyssey together. And arise they do, with metronomic and lugubrious regularity, once a reel. If the pair get a few bucks ahead, someone is sure to rip them off, and probably do them some physical harm...
...wasn't his laziness that made Lippert different: it was what he did during his occasional waking hours. His game was destruction and for fun he would coolly rip apart furniture doors and walls...
Lewis had managed to circumvent the intent of a loosely enforced bank rule that requires employees to take at least two consecutive weeks of vacation per year so as to keep them out of the office and thereby discourage rip-offs of precisely the sort that Lewis had engineered. As explained by Cooley, Lewis' simple scheme was made possible by taking advantage of the amount of time-usually three to five days in California-that it takes for a check that is cashed in one branch of a bank to "clear" or be debited against the funds on deposit...