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- They get kickbacks on government contracts from friends or the companies they award them to.† (source)
- The kickback of the rifle knocks him off balance, his foot slips, and he falls straight down.† (source)
- No kickbacks this time but rental fees paid for equipment that did not, in fact, exist.† (source)
- It is perfectly legal under federal law for a fast food chain to take kickbacks (known as "rebates") from its suppliers, to open a new restaurant next door to an existing franchisee, and to evict a franchisee without giving cause or paying any compensation.† (source)
- This time the kickback doesn't startle him as much, and the bullet nicks the top of the target.† (source)
- I upped my kickback fee with those two drugstores.† (source)
- Considering Simpson's imagination, I'd bet on the standard kickbacks, bribes, and graft."† (source)
- Taxes starting low and handled painlessly by automatic checkoff and through kickback revenues from grain shipments.† (source)
- We learned that our purchasing agent was accepting kickbacks.
- He won the "Small City Reporter of the Year" award, presented annually by the Associated Press, for a series of stories involving corruption in Blount—an official in the Public Works Department involved in kickbacks connected with purchases of snowplows and trucks.† (source)
- Pillsbury and his friends, no doubt, picked up some nice change as kickback from J. H. Moore, and forgot about the whole business.† (source)
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- He insisted on kickbacks from plumbing, heating, or painting contractors with whom the Commissioner had always been cronies, and so made enemies.† (source)
- Duffy did that, for he had been pulling all along for such an arrangement, and I suppose that he must have got some sort of private kickback or sweetening from Larson.† (source)
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