• Incidentally, the name is a rip-off from Prairie Home Companion, with Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.

    NPR: The Math Behind Pellicano's Code

  • Of course, I never broke down and confessed that it was actually a rip-off purchased while I was in Hong Kong.

    WSJ: The March of Time

  • Others ( myself included) might call it a rip-off, but I forgive Fox its trespass because the show is wildly entertaining.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Advocates and the media considered it a (still do, probably) a rip-off.

    FORBES: Customers in the Cards for TSYS

  • All of these plans in my view are a rip-off and far more expensive than local alternatives when you arrive in a foreign country.

    FORBES: How to Save Money on Mobile While Traveling in Canada

  • 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.

    FORBES: A Virtuous Cycle

  • That will provoke howls of protest, and reinforce the impression (which surveys by Passenger Focus, a travellers' watchdog, show are widespread) that railways are a rip-off for those who use them.

    ECONOMIST: Upgrading railways

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: TNK-BP

  • 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.

    FORBES: Are Stock Brokers Now Dinosaurs?

  • Without mentioning to us that this is a direct rip-off of an idea from a newspaper with a somewhat, shall we say, ideological take on the issues concerned.

    BBC: Newsnight's clock ident

  • "It took two years for FERC to confirm what we knew all along: there was widespread market manipulation and a massive rip-off of California ratepayers, " Davis said.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It sounds like the plot of a B movie Bond rip-off.

    FORBES: Donald Trump Tells Forbes Why He's Offering $5 Million For Obama's Records

  • 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.

    WSJ: UNLV: How Rebellious Were the Runnin' Rebels?

  • There's also a fraud alert published on the site, warning people about rip-off artists who use gumtree.com.

    CNN: Meet you at the gumtree

  • Mr Osborne is creating a new watchdog that Which? says should protect consumers from "rip-off" charges.

    BBC: Bank reforms must press ahead, says Which?

  • Accies were not too far away when Brian Easton let rip with a shot that looked harmless until taking a deflection off team-mate Sebastian Sorsa and falling just wide of the target.

    BBC: Hamilton Accies 0-1 Hibernian

  • 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.

    WSJ: Walk With the Animals

  • 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.

    BBC: Bono in action

  • The Conservative MSP has been leading a campaign against the charge, and has collected nearly 6000 signatures on his "drop-off, rip-off" petition.

    BBC: Edinburgh airport drop off charge debate

  • '' 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.

    CNN: Review: 'Mr. Fox' is fantastic

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