Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extensive was the take that Spanish police assumed that the operation had been carried out by a sizable and experienced gang. The burglars were so familiar with the bank, investigators theorized, that they must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate suspect: Frenchman Albert Spaggiari, 50, who with seven accomplices in 1976 hit a Societe Generate branch in Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where...
...host a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Other countries constructed international airports and posh hotel complexes. Corruption was rife: in Zaire (see box), politicians poured funds into secret Swiss bank accounts; the Central African Republic spent $50 million, roughly half the country's annual budget, on the 1977 coronation of the since deposed Emperor Bokassa...
...live in an enclosed steel box and be comfortable...
Martin, alone in front of Weicker, took a crossing pass from linemate Jay North, turned and fired a low drive at the wide open net Everyone in the crowd and press box thought goal, but Weicker, who had dived in the direction of the shot, calmly opened his glove and let the puck fall...
Marjorie's two roommates come home to this bizarre scene. Terry (Ellen Barkin), having once been raped, has no stomach for reliving it. Patricia (Deborah Hedwall) is a card-carrying pop psychologist who wants to relock the Pandora's box of irrationality. She is given to such phrases as "Define your terms" and "I can relate to that...