Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another, he said he would bomb the Belmont Bank if ransom money was not left for him in the Widener stacks...
...case, which Johnson rates as his biggest success, an Arlington man terrorized Harvard libraries from 1990 to 1992, slashing millions of dollars worth of rare books and threatening to blow up a bank if ransom money was not left for him at Widener Library. He was finally apprehended by police in December...
Villavicencio shows the ransom note he's received to the class. Six suspects with pens, all college-aged teachers, are rounded up in the room. Villavicencio asks for advice on how to figure out who did the deed...
...they compare their samples with the ransom note, Xiomara throws her head back and groans. Her ink has separated, and yellow has bled out. The ink from the ransom note also gives off yellow...
...country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam as being in the "Twilight Zone," somewhere between a Stalinist command economy and a Western-style market economy, with only a hazy notion of how to complete the journey...