| A while back there was a discussion on this forum about how the film was basically a rip-off of some director or company. |
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| And it may make rip-off artists think twice before churning out knock-offs. |
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| Remind me how the FSA protects investors from unscrupulous companies and salespeople and rip-off products? |
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| Then, as instructed, two beats cue the stomping 60-second Toadies-via-Pixies rip-off. |
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| But, despite my chagrin at what I regard as a rip-off, I have booked two tickets. |
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| Having been through this whole process a bunch of times, I had no illusions that I was dealing with rip-off merchants. |
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| This accident, sickness and unemployment cover is a right royal rip-off, as this article reveals! |
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| Today, the GOP released their Pledge to America, their rip-off of the popular and galvanizing 1994 Contract with America. |
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| And they are anxious about dismal public transport, dirty public conveniences, rip-off days out and restaurants that are anti-children. |
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| And perhaps more importantly, most authors don't want to name names when it comes to pointing out bad products or rip-off hosting companies, of which there are far too many. |
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| The mortgage brokers and rip-off contractors are the runners and corner boys. |
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| Oh, the wonders of Euroland, the rip-off merchants can no longer hide behind the vulgar fractions of currency translators. |
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| We got receipts so it is a completely legal rip-off but not corruption nor bakchich. |
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| People in York mostly think that estate agents are a rip-off, greedy, corrupt, or that they are cowboys or sharks. |
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| What follows is a farrago of mistaken identities and gender reversals, a painful rip-off of Shakespeare in Love without any of the wit, charm or heart. |
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| The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling. |
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| We would call that a rip-off, a fraud and a lie. |
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| The only real losers from this Directive will be rogue traders and rip-off merchants who exploit the gaps and differences between national laws to cheat consumers. |
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| Now, thanks to the determined action of the European commission, the European Parliament and all 27 EU member states, the days of the roaming rip-off days are numbered. |
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| Especially in contrast to managers, who are viewed as rip-off artists. |
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| But paper rip-off can obscure optical sensors. |
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| Is it a means of fair distribution of wealth or a new 'marketing' rip-off? |
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| Detectives were today warning people to be on their guard for cowboy tradesmen who may try to rip-off residents in the wake of flooding and gales. |
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| That's because the first version of Shakespeare's Hamlet sold by booksellers was a pirated copy, a shoddily written rip-off not authorised by the Bard. |
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| The biggest rip-off at the pumps was changing from gallons to litres, the new measurements disguising the fact that prices had jumped yet again. |
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| A Sofia cab driver set a new rip-off record Wednesday by charging a customer BGN 94 for a 2-kilometer ride. |
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| Cardiff City Council tried to introduce rip-off privatised parking into the Canton area of Cardiff. |
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| Trading standards bosses have made tackling the tricksters, who include cowboy tradesmen, rip-off builders and confidence cheats, their number one priority. |
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| Likewise, their prescription-drug plan is limited to seniors, and even then it soaks the taxpayers while allowing the drug makers to keep charging rip-off prices. |
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| Even colder, whenever veterans balk at paying the usurious rip-off, company lawyers sue them, usually in courts far away from where the vets live. |
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| On the one hand we learned this week that the pro-abortion rip-off of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has finally come to an end. |
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| In my book, the insurance is more a rip-off than payday loans. |
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| Buses are your best option as taxis are a rip-off and the subway is a nogo area, especially at night. |
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| Does the minister not understand that the Liberal Party is coming open only because it has been caught red-handed in this massive rip-off of Canadian taxpayers? |
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| The local station had made a chincy rip-off of the old scary show Tales From the Crypt. |
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| Taxi-drivers have an advantage in that their customer is usually a foreigner, who will not seek his services again and is likely to pay the rip-off rate out of fear. |
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| For example, in the early nineties he would rake in a modest success with Carnosaur, a direct rip-off of Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jurassic Park. |
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| But the predatory pricing of airlines will see hopes dashed for many who simply cannot afford to pay the rip-off inflated prices being offered by greedy airlines. |
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