But even if the rip-off artists are chased away, we have another, equally monumental problem on our hands.
Examples include the recent America COMPETEs Act that politicians tripped over themselves to support, and Republican inaction on eliminating in-your-face abominations like the ethanol rip-off.
Why: The crappy cousin and poor rip-off of the Dos Equis and Old Spice guys.
The latter should lead you to rip the band-aid off and force some haircuts.
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As can be seen from the popularity of rip-off artists like Whole Foods markets, organic foods are popular.
And by the time Where the Streets Have No Name boomed out of the speakers it was definitely a case of forget about drinking the lager - let's throw it in the air, rip off our T-shirts and jump as high as we can.
Instead of using leaflets and loud-hailers, this student protest is gathering support through Facebook, with the Stop The Great HSBC Graduate Rip-Off group so far acquiring almost 3, 500 members - an increase of about 1, 000 since the weekend.
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Incidentally, the name is a rip-off from Prairie Home Companion, with Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.
They rip the Band-Aid off and get down to the important stuff.
Is it better for me to rip the band-aid off and express these concerns with the managing partner (who I think I can have an honest discussion with) or wait until I have to tell so that there is more time for me to continue to get assigned the good work (ie, before the guys subconsciously take me off the fast track).
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Loeper is the CEO and founder of Financeware, Inc. in Richmond, VA. He is author of the top selling book Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!
There's also a fraud alert published on the site, warning people about rip-off artists who use gumtree.com.
Another 150 consultants, seconded to the firm from BP, are unable to work, owing to a lawsuit brought by a minority shareholder who reckons that the fees they charge are a rip-off.
Unfortunately, this product has drawn the scorn of FINRA the securities regulator for being a rip-off of investors, who can be locked into such investment for seven to 10 years with some seeing no chance of getting their capital returned.
There is also an undeniable adrenaline rush from knowing that the only thing protecting you from a fierce predator that could effortlessly rip your head off is the guidance and know-how of the guy standing next to you.
To one of the Bank of America accounts that these rip-off artists had opened.
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The plan, dubbed the "rip off" initiative by the country's media, bans so-called golden-handshake and golden-parachute severance agreements.
It sounds like the plot of a B movie Bond rip-off.
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If you assumed every potential deal was a rip-off or that the products you were buying were probably going to be lemons, then very little business would get done.
Clinton would love to rip off the gloves and go bare-knuckled.
Moreover, not merely content to rip-off his employer under the warranty with Cisco, between 2000 and 2009, Baxter fraudulently caused Verizon to purchase nearly a half-million dollars in Cisco equipment, which he also took home and re-sold to third-party re-sellers.
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The 25-year-old Serb didn't rip his shirt off this time, as he did to celebrate his epic 5-hour, 53-minute win over Rafael Nadal in last year's final.
Advocates and the media considered it a (still do, probably) a rip-off.
Others ( myself included) might call it a rip-off, but I forgive Fox its trespass because the show is wildly entertaining.
Forbes has frequently profiled such pitfalls in the past, including in stories titled Fixing Your 401(k), and Retirement Rip-Off.
The Conservative MSP has been leading a campaign against the charge, and has collected nearly 6000 signatures on his "drop-off, rip-off" petition.
In a 1985 book called "Rip-Off U, " former Duke basketball player Dick DeVenzio railed against what he called the "theft and exploitation" college athletes face.
And that's making the phones a sweeter target for online ne'er do-wells looking to, at the very least, cause mischief and, at worst, rip off unsuspecting phone owners.
'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films.
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