Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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West Point, famous for its injunction that no cadet lie, cheat or steal, is weighing significant changes in its honor system...
...committee plans to evaluate the honor code--which says simply that a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do--to make distinctions between violations of the honor code and violations of administrative regulations, which might invite less stringent punishment...
Mitnick has apparently compiled a long history of computer capers. At 17 he used the phone system to enter Pacific Bell's computer network and steal electronically stored technical manuals, earning himself six months in a juvenile-detention facility followed by probation. Perhaps not coincidentally, the judge in the case later discovered that electronic files at a credit- information service had been mysteriously altered to downgrade the judge's credit rating. And a telephone belonging to a probation officer assigned to Mitnick's case was disconnected, although the phone company had no record of having done...
...people apparently viewed the disaster as an opportunity to steal. Pravda said more than $400,000 in pilfered goods had been recovered and 150 looters had been arrested. But 20,000 tents bound for Leninakan disappeared. To prevent looting, a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew was imposed throughout Armenia, and troops patrolled the streets of Leninakan. TASS reported that a man was arrested in Kirovakan for stripping watches and earrings from the dead. Soviet soldiers were seen removing boots from the dead and trying them on for size. "We shouldn't hide the fact that all kinds of scum...
...with smoother styles, but she will not be used. And now she has a plan. Her new boss is chic Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), who has it all and wants more. Katharine can flirt suavely with clients -- "I'll buy you a drink. Bottle of Cristal? Two straws?" -- and steal ideas from brainy losers like Tess. Well, if Tess can't beat Katharine, she will become her. While Katharine recovers from a ski injury, Tess dresses in her boss's clothes, coifs herself in "serious hair," drops her voice one take-charge octave. Voila! The Staten Island missy...