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...EVERYONE STEALS A LITTLE" seems to be the mantra of the McCracken clan. Mother pilfers desk supplies from her office. Daughter shoplifts for "something to do" and to finance her adolescent drug taking. Brother-in- law is on the fiddle at work and with the tax office. Son-in-law traffics in "surplus" merchandise from the family factory. Even the clan's stern paterfamilias Jack, for all his talk of rectitude, is not above bribing a prying private investigator with a juicy no-bid security contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Begins At Home | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...core of the central programmatic tenet of Loose Canons--that we must create an educational system that fosters "a civic culture that respects both differences and commonalities." This will be a system "that seeks to comprehend the diversity of human culture" since (and this is the Gates mantra) "[t]here is no tolerance without respect--and no respect without knowledge...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Gates Makes a Strong Defense of Multiculturalism and Afro-American Studies in Latest Collection of Essays | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

...cover overseas, COREA used various front companies: Stevens Mantra Corp., AMA Industries, Wildwood Video and Condor Television Ltd. Condor paid its bills with checks drawn on the First American Bank (account No. 2843900) in Washington, D.C., which was subsequently discovered to be a subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...Mantra...

Author: By Ahmad Z. Che on, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Spikers' Hopes for NCAA Bid Dashed; Face Yale Today | 3/31/1992 | See Source »

That is the Crimson's Mantra these days. The team needs to avoid a careless mistakes. In the past, Harvard has been close games turn to losses after the team made mental errors...

Author: By Ahmad Z. Che on, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Spikers' Hopes for NCAA Bid Dashed; Face Yale Today | 3/31/1992 | See Source »

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