Word: scam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal would face tough, almost insurmountable opposition in Congress, which considers a new tax as a pox in an election year. Typical of what special-interest groups will tell their Congressmen is the observation of a Southern California Auto Club spokesman: "The tax is just a scam to increase Government revenues and the federal bureaucracy at the expense of good-hearted people across the country...
...York as a day care center. All Richie needs is title to an abandoned synagogue in the South Bronx: for $50,000 ($10,000 down), he will be able to unload the building on the city for $125,000 a year for 15 years. Until this kind of scam was exposed a few years ago, it was almost as lucrative as a card-carrying membership in OPEC...
Braniff Flight 922 from Bogota to Los Angeles is nicknamed "the cocaine special." One scam is for a passenger to hide the powder somewhere on the plane, clear customs in Los Angeles, reboard the plane for the continuation to San Francisco, then collect his hidden coke. Panel bolts in many planes are visibly worn from smugglers' screwdrivers. Four unclaimed kilos were found last month in one jet's nose cone...
...address of one of Phil's friends in Chicago. Phil never opened the envelopes; he merely picked them up and delivered them to a local dealer recommended by Rafael, charging him $1,000 an oz. For his work and $3,000 investment, Phil made $25,000. He repeated the scam for a few more months; then, $100,000 later, he pocketed his winnings and retired...
...Rollers "rock 'n roll" now they're barely even cute--bubble gum is cloying. Elvis was outrageous in the '50s because he never held back, but outrageousness has become a style all its own, and it really isn't very shocking any more. Punk rock is just a crazy scam. Even good disco is tediously predictable. Neither the Sex Pistols nor the Bee Gees will ever draw large crowds to their graves...