Word: looting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each day, according to prosecutors, cash was emptied from the registers into a "money room," where it was counted, placed in bags and dropped down a chute into the "vault room." Most of the unreported loot was lugged to the Caribbean, where Leonard owns a second home. Another executive, Leonard's brother-in-law, kept $484,000 stashed behind a false panel in his basement. Meanwhile, the computer program itself was hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the 1982 Business Directory of New England...
Every day the children, in gangs of five or more, make their way to the city's main black market. In carefully choreographed routines they loot the stalls. Two boys approach a seller from the right, two from the left, and they begin to argue. While the seller is distracted, a fifth boy grabs a jar of jam or milk. Sometimes, when the hunger is bad, the boys will simply run up to a hawker, grab a handful of food and run. And sometimes they are caught. "The cops know we're only trying to survive, and they...
...Texas Southern University in Houston that was good news. Then the Japanese media disclosed that on Dec. 7 (of all days) members of the university's marching band, on a goodwill trip to Japan, had turned their Tokyo tour into a shoplifting spree, making off with $22,000 in loot from stores. One bystander even claimed that a student had brazenly videotaped enraged merchants chasing the thieves to their buses...
...kind of oral history of the last years as well. Producer Phil Schaap has included 1 1/2 hours of newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that kept her vital even as her body was giving...
...third period just got worse. Two goals in 32 seconds and the Red Raiders actually looked ready to head home with the loot...