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  The Shaving Cream Racket by Jeffrey A. Tucker
I'm disinclined to blast the manufacturers of a beloved bathroom gel as deceivers who make money off people's ignorance and perpetuate the problem they are supposedly solving, or charlatans who deliberately hook people on some chemically produced gunk solely for the sake of profiting from repeated uses.
But someone has to say it: shaving cream is a racket.
The truth that shaving cream is a racket should be added to this.
www.lewrockwell.com /tucker/tucker65.html   (981 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: War is a Racket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired from the United States Marine Corps in 1931, in which he takes a cynical view of the profit motive behind warfare.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people – who do not profit.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/War-is-a-Racket   (6224 words)

  
 Racket: Print (Home)
Studio Racket is a finalist in the Desktop Magazine Create Awards 2007 for their work on The Contextual Villains project, The Present History.
Racket is nominated in the category of Best Design for Creative Print Media.
The awards also have a people's choice award, so if you have the desire and or the inclination, you can vote 1 for The Present History here.
studioracket.org   (262 words)

  
 The Education Tax Racket
The goal is to keep the kids in school so that they and their parents can be taught the merits of the system (the entire government sector) that keeps them there.
In other words, it’s a glorified tax scam, just another racket to extract money from the public so that it can be transferred to the pockets of bureaucrats.
No wonder the homeschooling movement – the most momentous educational development of the last few decades and one of the most hopeful signs for the future--is starting to catch on in a big way.
www.lewrockwell.com /rockwell/taxracket.html   (891 words)

  
 'The Racket' is funny, seriously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A Theatre Under the Influence is performing "The Racket" at Union Garage.
But "The Racket," which was made into a movie twice, is bizarrely absorbing and fascinating.
Brad Cook's ingeniously reversible set design is a study in grime and decay -- a visual emblem of law enforcement in disarray.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /theater/23147_racketq.shtml   (492 words)

  
 definition of racket
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched.
It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
www.brainydictionary.com /words/ra/racket209735.html   (206 words)

  
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The latest re-incarnation of the racket used to such great effect by Andre Agassi in his prime.
The Head MicroGel Radical OS incorporates the new MICROGEL technology, which when combined with carbon composite fibers in the racquet head, MicroGel deforms and compresses upon ball impact, uniformly absorbing and distributing the impact load around the entire frame, creating a rock-solid feel while offering extra stability against twisting.
www.racketlink.co.uk   (191 words)

  
 The Racket (1951)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Racket boldly begins where the Senate crime committee left off!
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon...
Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for The Racket (1951)
us.imdb.com /title/tt0043955/combined   (315 words)

  
 The ADA Shakedown Racket by Walter K. Olson, City Journal Winter 2004
The ADA Shakedown Racket by Walter K. Olson, City Journal Winter 2004
The Americans with Disabilities Act has spawned a sleazy lawsuit industry.
Louie recently had a revealing falling-out with one of his lawyers, Paul Rein—the Oakland attorney who had sued Clint Eastwood.
www.city-journal.org /html/14_1_the_ada_shakedown.html   (2692 words)

  
 The Racket - Rotten Tomatoes
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for The Racket to receive a rating.
Based on Bartlett Cormack’s popular Roaring Twenties play, RACKET is a hard-hitting action drama about a tough cop trying to put a mean racketeer out of business.
Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Clive Owen, and one highly sought-after baby provide the acting between the explosions in this fall's most over-the-top actioner.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/racket   (324 words)

  
 The Racket movie review - Film - Time Out New York
The Racket movie review - Film - Time Out New York
Howard Hughes had produced the silent version of The Racket that sparked Hollywood's gangster cycle.
John Cromwell had won his first movie chance with his performance in a Broadway revival of the original play.
www.timeout.com /film/76338.html   (280 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-The Rapture racket
What if the Book of Revelation doesn’t mandate death, destruction and the annihilation of all but true believers?
“The rapture is a racket,” writes Barbara R. Rossing in the first sentence of her recently published book The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Westview Press, 2004).
Rossing, a New Testament scholar and an associate professor at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, maintains that the Rapture is a fraud of monumental proportions, as well as a disturbing way to instill fear in people.
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=17713   (1018 words)

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