Word: robbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed Bucknell few offensive opportunities and in goal Graham knocked everything aside. With under two minutes left in the second period Bucknell floated a long arching shot with three seconds left on the shot clock. It sailed over Graham and into the net for the game's initial tally. Rob Strauss evened the score less than a minute later on a breakaway set up by a long Graham pass...
Army starting quarterback Rob Healy could only lead his squad to three points in the first half, but sophomore backup Bill Turner had considerably more success in the second. Craig Stopa's 34-yard fourth-quarter field goal gave the Cadets their first lead of the season, Dartmouth is now 1-1; Army...
Many of the victims are illegal aliens or Skid Row transients who fear law-enforcement officials and thus do not complain about their plight. "Just to let you know how common all this is," says Rob Williams, an attorney with Florida Rural Legal Services, "there are 5,000 farm-labor contractors in the state of Florida, and about 100 are like Willie Warren...
...poaching has become a growth industry, taken over by gangs who shanghai salmon the way more conventional bandits rob banks. Today's poachers use radio-equipped lookouts to check for water bailiffs, sophisticated systems of decoy cars to deploy their forces and middlemen to market their take. The object: big catches, swiftly and efficiently distributed. The only weapon the government men have is a truncheon, which, under antiquated rules, can be drawn only in self-defense. The poachers, meanwhile, sport a growing assortment of weapons...
...crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape Horn, only a brief time after learning sailing so that she could share an interest with her yachtsman husband Rob. She retired from competitive sailing to raise a family, and last March her first child, a daughter, was born. Eleven days earlier, Rob had drowned in a yachting accident...