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  • Considering Simpson's imagination, I'd bet on the standard kickbacks, bribes, and graft.†  (source)
  • He insisted on kickbacks from plumbing, heating, or painting contractors with whom the Commissioner had always been cronies, and so made enemies.†  (source)
  • The kickback of the rifle knocks him off balance, his foot slips, and he falls straight down.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Taxes starting low and handled painlessly by automatic checkoff and through kickback revenues from grain shipments.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • We learned that our purchasing agent was accepting kickbacks.†
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