Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang's members have pulled off hundreds of robberies, stealing cash from store safes, jewelry, antiques and cars from country estates, and tractors from farmers. Federal and state investigators say they can directly tie the gang to more than $1 million in stolen loot but believe the total take is much higher...
...Friends say the father soon had second thoughts about Little Bruce's aptitude for the family business and urged him "to look for a 9-to-5 job." The son ignored the advice and ended up last summer in the Chester County prison farm for stealing $2 worth of gas from a farmer. Released on bail, he was promptly sent back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow...
Bruce Sr., whose intelligence system was at least as good as that of the police, got word of Little Bruce's defection and of reports that James might also testify against him. On Aug. 15, James phoned Great-Aunt Sarah to say that his father had told him not to appear before the grand jury. "I'll be gone for a couple of days," he said. That was the last heard from James until his body was found...
...General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who is currently trying to decide whether he can strengthen his hold on the country by executing his predecessor. He has talked a lot about holding free elections but now seems reluctant to do so. "What worries me," say a Western diplomat, "is that there is another [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi down there, some radical major or colonel in the Pakistani army. We could wake up and find him in Zia's place one morning and believe me, Pakistan wouldn't be the only place that would be destabilized...
Guarantee the Product. To prove that, say, biology graduates can distinguish fish from fowl, Mars Hill College, just outside Asheville, N.C., backs its diplomas with special tests that lead to "competency" certificates. Results: more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants, and grateful businessmen who hire the certifiably competent graduates...