Word: antitheft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to curb the flow of stolen gear, drillers in Oklahoma and Louisiana have set up rewards earmarked to pay informants. Throughout the South and South west, law-enforcement officials and oil-company security people are holding seminars on antitheft measures. Says William J. Sallans, executive vice president of a Houston-based association of 210 petroleum-equipment manufacturers and suppliers: "We've bought more' cyclone fence since 1973 than at any other time in the history of the oil industry...
...growing numbers are plagued by a persistent, gnawing question: Is their Utopia going sour? Despite Sweden's prosperity, a sharp increase in burglaries and robberies has produced a sudden sales boom in police locks and other antitheft devices. Police in a country that for years took pride in having no drug problem have recently uncovered several large caches of heroin. There are no signs, moreover, that Sweden has made any progress in dealing with its nagging alcoholism problem or its high suicide rate...