Word: pilfers
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According to Customs affidavits, Saeid Asefi Inanlou, an Iranian national based in London, would phone Agustin with a list of needed parts. Two of Agustin's accomplices, Philippine Immigrants Primitivo Cayabyab and Pedro Quito, would help pilfer the goods from Navy ships and warehouses where they worked. The Agustins then used fictitious shipping companies to transport the machinery to London. Agustin's brother Edgardo is said by the Customs Service to have managed the ring's East Coast operations. MILITARY Acquittal for a Spy Fund Manager...
...your would-be employer will ask to run a credit check. About 35% of companies consider applicants' credit histories, up from 19% in 1996, according to the Society for Human Resource Management, an HR trade group. Why? Companies figure that folks with decent financials are less likely to pilfer and that good management of personal finances translates into responsibility on the job. As security concerns mount and technology makes it easier to run checks, more companies are jumping on board...
...Americans even coined a word for doing things without permission in this land of the unfree: "freedalisms." On one occasion, the four swam across a river to pilfer a bag of coal tar from a government construction site to repair their (illegal) fishing boat. "To steal something from the North Korean government is immediately punishable by death," Jenkins said during his court-martial. "I think we all secretly wished we would be caught." Another time, they stumbled upon an array of microphones in the attic of their house and blackmailed their leader (who feared he would suffer if his superiors...
This predicament left the savvy coach no choice but to pilfer Harvard’s playing fields just to give his pitchers a mound to throw off. Undeterred by the lack of their own facilties, Walsh and his players would hop the fence and borrow the Crimson’s pitching mounds, tuning their change-ups and slinging their fastballs until dawn (or the athletic director) appeared to chase them off the premises...
...Gomes in a life-historical context. In thoroughly disconcerting fashion, the article laid bare past indiscretions, using interviews with old teachers, hometown community members and “friends” of Pomey and Gomes to make clear the point that such alleged ethical lapses as the Pudding pilfer are hardly surprising coming from either of the accused. But in the effort to contextualize the accusations (which, by the way, it did very well), the article accomplished several other less desirable purposes that cause one to question whether it ever should have been written in the first place...