Word: stealing
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Some of them will steal. Nicky, 32, the son of a prominent Boston family, was in the midst of a third attempt to quit cocaine. One Sunday last December, he stole a cache of jewelry from his parents. In exchange for the $50,000 worth...
...Harvard bats rallied behind Rubin in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Crimson followed a Sackaroff single and steal of second with three consecutive hits. By the end of the inning, Harvard enjoyed a 13-5 lead. The Eagles narrowed the gap by three runs in the seventh, but they were unable to mount a serious threat to Harvard...
...Kutchuktan knocked a home run into deep center field. In the third inning. B.U. scored its fourth--but final--run when Harvard catcher Cindy Phillips tried to pick off a B.U. stealer headed for second. Not only was the runner safe, but a B.U. player took the opportunity to steal home...
Banks and retailers face hosts of problems that drive up rates: borrowers who welsh on their debts, thieves who steal cards and go on shopping sprees, and more sophisticated criminals who make counterfeit charge plates. One top executive at a New York City bank estimates that about one-fifth of the 19.8% interest his institution charges on credit cards goes to cover loan losses and the expense of collecting tardy payments...
...that this is what the smart people are doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes but the taxes that the cheaters did not pay. "It's no game," says Roderick Chu, New York State's commissioner...