price gouger

During his campaign, the vice president has relentlessly attacked the companies as price gougers.

The politicians call the companies pirates and price gougers.

"They didn't want to be viewed as price gougers."

Yesterday's low-fare operators can become today's moderate-fare providers or tomorrow's price gougers.

The American public felt the government was rescuing them from price gougers and from a foreign-caused exchange crisis.

Price gougers demanded $800 for $60 vials of vaccine.

Except for all price gougers on U.S. 1.

There were price gougers and good Samaritans, looters and citizen patrols, whiners and volunteers.

The new commercials adopt much of the Administration's campaign language, criticizing insurance companies as price gougers and emphasizing the plan's commitment to providing "affordable private insurance."

Already the tiny pockets of unfettered economic activity, like the privately owned cooperative enterprises that are free to set their own prices, have been widely criticized as price gougers.

Bottlenecks, shortages and inflation that were followed by austerity measures, attacks on alleged price gougers and black-markets, that angered both the bazaar and the masses.

Yet that is the shocking reality that has panicky patients lining up for flu shots that are not available and has price gougers trying to profit from their misery.

Drug executives have just recently recovered from the drubbing they took in 1993 and 1994, when the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton assailed drug companies as price gougers.

That being the case, it is likely that the power generators, which have been called price gougers and pirates but have supplied the state with enough energy to keep the lights on, will have priority among the creditors.

Less than a month after the President took office, Mrs. Clinton assailed drug companies as price gougers, and Mr. Clinton said children went without vaccine because the manufacturers were pursuing "profits at the expense of our children."

Furious that a pharmacy in Chelsea was making what they considered an unacceptably large profit for a new AIDS drug, they papered the store's windows with huge signs that read "Profiteers" and "Price Gougers."

When President Clinton stood before an audience at an Arlington, Va., health clinic last year and characterized the pharmaceutical industry as a bunch of price gougers, executives of the nation's drug companies had what their scientists might call a convulsive reaction.

When employees of Stadtlanders Pharmacy and Wellness Center arrived at their store at Eighth Avenue and 16th Street 10 days ago, they found its plate-glass windows papered with the words "Profiteers" and "Price Gougers."

Matters were worsened by food shortages which had seemingly resulted from bad harvests but more importantly from unwillingness of farmers to bring products to the market at prices below the cost of production; however, the shortages were widely blamed on speculators, hoarders and price gougers.

In New York, Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican, and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat who wants to succeed him, warned that retail gas prices, which are not regulated, would nonetheless be monitored and price gougers penalized.

During World War II, Dodge worked as the director of the headquarters staff division of Army Service Forces in 1941., He first began his work for the government acting as price adjuster by monitoring defense contractors to prevent unnecessary government spending through price gougers and profiteers.

Few other lanistae are known by name: they were head of their familia gladiatoria, with legal power over life and death of every family member, including servi poenae, auctorati and ancillaries but socially they were infames, on a footing with pimps and butchers and despised as price gougers.