Even the world of art painting, though it is no less a victim than that of music to Appreciation rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged quality, is more penetrable to reason in this regard, since such values, or the pretenses about them advanced by investing collectors and museums, are more easily unmasked as efforts to influence market prices.
5 As Greene explains in the Preface to the novel (1950/1977), the story of the penicillin racket was based on grim truth, involving members of the Royal Air Force selling penicillin and other medicinal products in poverty-stricken Vienna (cf. Wapshott 1994, p. 200).
He had a major drug dealing racket based in the northwest of England and used extreme violence against his rivals.
Almost all players have clauses in their endorsement contracts, particularly with apparel, shoe and racket deals, that outline bonuses based on year-end rankings and for tournaments won.
All Rossen's playscripts were adaptions except Marked Woman, Racket Buster and Alexander the Great, which were based on real events.
But there is a tendency in Washington to see those alliances as constraints rather than assets". Trump, he said, saw Nato not as an alliance based on values but as a protection racket.
Based on the investigation of a 1960s heroin racket, this breathless policier accelerates steadily to bullet velocity.
That is what they see in what Philo describes as "a longterm excluded class, simply not needed, who often take control of their communities through aggression or running their alternative economy, based on things like drug-dealing or protection rackets".
Based on the exploits of the Banda della Magliana, which dominated Rome rackets in the 1970s, Romanzo Criminale links the mob to some of the murders and bomb attacks that shook Italian politics at the time yet remain largely unsolved.
The endorsements of Solomon and Harmon are based on experience and hearsay, as is that of Roman Prokes, who has strung and customised rackets for Andy Roddick and Maria Sharapova.
