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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down during the spring season, so you can stay for about $20 a night in someone's quaint colonial house and get a very well-prepared breakfast every morning. The people who run these establishments are usually quite friendly, so you shouldn't steal their towels. They are also nice enough to leave you alone if you wish. You can find B-&-B's listed in selected tourist manuals...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Avoiding the Crowds | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...overtime, freshman Rich Medina's two foul shots gave Cornell an early 72-70 lead. But a steal by Phillips and his subsequent lay-up tied the game. The basket made Phillips the 14th Harvard basketball player to join the 1000 point club...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Red Knock M. Cagers Out of Ivy Race | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...sculptures in African style of the wife and son he had lost. To Doaker's hothead older brother, born under the second slavery of Jim Crow, the carvings on the piano made it the rightful property of his kin, and he lost his life in a successful conspiracy to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

When the 404 members of the Democratic National Committee vote on Feb. 10, more will be at stake than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running As His Own Man: RONALD BROWN | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

Each year U.S. businesses lose as much as $40 billion to employees who steal. To protect their profit margins, many hard-hit companies have resorted to routine polygraph screening of workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honestly, Can We Trust You? Employers seek an integrity test | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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