Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stickers on cars along Miami's Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...
...interactive system, much like the QUBE system used in Columbus, Ohio, would allow city officials to poll residents on local issues, and even permit the network to be used for burglar and fire alarms and to monitor energy use, the committee says...
...whores of Pocock, mothers of abomination, housewives wallowing in your adulteries, the Lord will smite you. Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy...
...knows how deeply the worms have eaten?" Stern wonders. "We all think we sleep safely in our beds, the mortgage payments up to date, the house insured, the burglar alarm operative...
...Justice Department has a roster of some 18,000 federal cons who, all told, owe about $80 million in fines and bail bond forfeitures. Some of the deadbeats, among them many Prohibition moonshiners, are dead; others are in prison, untraceable, or truly too poor to pay (tightlipped Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy, for example, has paid only $5,051 of his $40,000 fine, and Justice considers his pleas of poverty to be genuine). Yet the Department says that there are some 3,500 debtors who can claim no excuses. Their fines total about $20 million...