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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pocket, but my father-in-law had to pay the $300 mortgage each month." In New York he would borrow $30,000 to $50,000 a week and lose about 80% of it over a weekend. "Then I'd steal," he says. Sometimes he would pilfer racks of dresses off the streets in Manhattan's garment district and sell them in a back alley. He adds, "There's plenty of times I've taken a gun and held up people -- and I'm a white-collar person." Fleeing to California to escape bill collectors, he started a successful garment business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Why Pick on Pete Rose? | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...said the store is great for thieves, who "go up and down the aisles and pilfer all they want...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer and Russ Muirhead, S | Title: Munching Past Midnight at the Store 24 | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

Slowly, while carefully guarding my secret, I became accustomed to the idea that I would lead my life as a "misfit." By the time I was seventeen, I'd managed to pilfer a few Playgirl magazines to indulge my fantasies, and one day my mother discovered them. My parents were shocked, scared, even ashamed. I was signed up for counseling at the Josephine County Mental Health Program: perhaps it would not be "too late." After three months there I got fed up with being asked to believe that I had talked myself into being gay, when for years...

Author: By Robert L. Rothery, | Title: Life as a Sexual Exile | 4/10/1980 | See Source »

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