Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen regularly, along with easily sold items like TV sets. Mothers tell stories of thieves who raid one room of their apartments while they are in another...
...first, distribution will be mostly through street sales, and the press run is only about 50,000. The first issue contains a few modest surprises. The cover story is an investigative piece about a recent police raid on a local brothel. The issue also includes a letter from Fugitive Timothy Leary, but Coppola will disclose neither what it contains nor how City acquired it. The front part of the magazine is divided into departments on crime, business news, San Francisco history and other local topics. The middle part contains feature articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings...
...expense items involving salaries and supplies into the capital budget, which is supposed to cover construction projects. Ten years ago, $200 million was all that had been diverted from one account to the other. In the current budget, the figure has swelled to $800 million. Another tactic is to raid the "Rainy Day fund," which is supposed to be maintained for an emergency. Instead of contributing to the fund as required by law, New York has obtained waivers from the city council permitting it to skip payments for the past seven years. As a result, the fund is almost drained...
...Cambodians in March. Its passengers, including the Mayaguez's crew, were frantically waving white handkerchiefs. Minutes later, the U.S. planes began bombing Ream Airfield, destroying 17 Cambodian aircraft, mostly U.S.-built T-28 trainers that Cambodia's deposed Lon Nol government had got from the U.S. In a second raid about an hour later, U.S. jets bombed and destroyed an oil depot near Kompong...
...even found managing a Laredo plastics plant at $20,000 a year. The INS'S files include reports of a Greek plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered employees, including a Swiss assistant manager getting $11,000 a year. One enterprising Venezuelan was clearing $750 a week from a construction job on the Alaska pipeline. Immigration authorities in New York discovered two illegals who were making $400 a week -painting...