Word: lootings
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...International Airport, and everyone in the Mariners' traveling party had to slog through a tedious customs check and then claim his own luggage. As the men circled the baggage carousel, Gerald Perry, Seattle's hitting coach, began collecting $1 bills. The first guy whose luggage emerged would win the loot...
...ANGOLA Children Taken After around 50 UNITA rebels attacked the town of Caxito, north of Luanda, killing at least 100 people and interrogating foreign aid workers, they ransacked buildings for food supplies. To carry away their loot the rebels kidnapped 60 children from an orphanage school. Initially unita denied that any children had been taken, but by week's end the group's chief of staff General Geraldo Abreu said that any children kidnapped in the attack on Caxito would be released at the nearest mission station...
...news didn't come as a complete shock. When Davidson started out, money ran freely. "The mood was, 'Gosh, Dell has oodles of loot,'" he says. "'Let's just spend, spend, spend.'" But last spring, when the dotcom bubble burst, everything changed. It was harder to get anything more than a bare-bones computer to work on, and training was halted for several months. "You could practically hear the screws being tightened," says Davidson...
...counterfeiters' tale struck a chord with many treasure-mad Filipinos. Newspaper classifieds routinely advertise the services of psychic fortune hunters, and the four governments since Ferdinand Marcos' regime have embarked on searches for Japanese war loot?reportedly worth billions of dollars in gold and jewels?that was allegedly buried somewhere in the archipelago when General Yamashita Tomoyuki's forces retreated before the Allied invasion in 1945. The "primitive" tribes of Mindanao are often the first to capitalize on this gullibility. Says General Ruben Cabignati, regional military commander based in the town of Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao: "I know...
...right side of this issue - as long as artists keep depending on Big Business to find them a paying audience, Big Business deserves a cut of the loot - but that doesn't make it any less fun to watch them play corporate Whack-a-Mole with the Internet rebels...