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Word: dumpster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formerly makeshift shelter in the church's basement was redesigned into a welcoming and accommodating space. Before the renovations, guests of the shelter entered through a set of fire stairs next to a dumpster, one of the only ways to access the church's basement level...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renovated Unilu Shelter Ready to Re-Open | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...fraud - more, if only slightly, than the 7 cents per $100 lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. So why shouldn't consumers be concerned? Answer: The perpetrators, by and large, are not hackers snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits their liability to $50, and many card issuers don't even collect that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Shop Online? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of a dumpster fire in an alleyway. Upon arrival a working fire was discovered. The Cambridge Police Department (CPD) and Cambridge Fire Department were notified and responded. The fire department extinguished the fire...

Author: By Edward W. Naim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...past year. But in 1997 at least $25 billion in intellectual property was stolen from U.S. corporations, by a conservative estimate. And these aren't just cases of foreign spies left over from the cold war working for new capitalist bosses. Increasingly, U.S. firms are turning to Dumpster divers or computer hackers to stay ahead of the competition, and disgruntled workers are walking off with classified material. One worrisome ploy, the FBI says, is to send in spies posing as tech consultants on the Y2K computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyeing The Competition | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...story red brick building with no visible address, appeared completely devoid of life. A note scribbled on the door instructed us that the films could be found in the rear of the building. As we tiptoed over broken shingles and eyed an obtrusive porcelain toilet next to a dumpster, a female voice said, "The Revolving Museum is over here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINE MANIC | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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