Word: robbers
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...adjusted, depending on such variables as the use of a gun or how much money was stolen or whether the victim was elderly. The resulting number is plugged into a chart that weighs any previous record and comes out with a prescription for the sentence. For example, a bank robber starts by getting 19 penalty points, gets 1 added for taking $15,000 and 9 more for shooting someone and causing serious injury. If the robber served a 14-month prison term five years earlier, the total of 29 points would direct the judge to set a new sentence -- whir...
President Bok yesterday blasted the national press for sensationalizing the case of alleged robber Jose L. Razo...
...Golfer Craig Stadler came to own a $37,000 pair of trousers has nothing to do with a paroled bank robber who served 4 1/2 years in federal prison. Stadler's startling disqualification of two weeks ago is a complicated parable about the relative weight of rules. But it helps to view the affair from the vantage point of Rick Meissner, late of the golf circuit, who in lieu of a more traditional backer knocked off 19 savings and loans as he toured...
...could not after all. They left it to Mike Tyson, a primitive without stockings, who carves a hole in a towel and calls it a robe. Like boxing, he is an anachronism, a dusty old museum piece of 20, a black from Brooklyn's worst circumstances, an orphaned street robber found handcuffed to a reform-school radiator, and the youngest heavyweight champion of the world...
...Boesky's illegal use of secret tips on takeovers has tarnished the reputations of all arbitragers and ordinary stock traders. Says Jack Steele, recently retired dean of the University of Southern California business school: "Where we're at today is really no different from the age of the robber barons." Agrees Robert Hanisee, president of Seidler Amdec Securities, a Los Angeles brokerage: "The popular perception among investors is that this kind of Boesky crap goes on all the time. The real tragedy is that we keep living up to people's worst expectations." Says John Baker, a broker with Shearson...