Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday night's meeting, which also saw debate over placing condom machines on campus, the council shot down a proposal to spend $900 on a comedy night this fall. Some members opposed the plan saying it would duplicate and steal business away from a comedy show already sponsored by Phillips Brooks House...
...year ago. Brown tied the booters, 0-0, on the last day of the season to grab a share of the '86 Ivy League title and steal an NCAA tournament bid away from the Crimson...
...novel has received critical acclaim for its intriguing plot, which traces two teenaged brothers from a broken home who steal food from a restaurant, escape a bloody brawl and witness a murder in one incredible night...
...music," wrote the composer and music critic Deems Taylor in 1939. "Suppose a play should open tomorrow in which one of the actors had the line, 'Now go to the door and stay there till we call.' How many dramatic critics would point out that it was a direct steal from Shakespeare? But it is. It's straight out of the first scene of the third act of Macbeth. If a new symphony contained that much of a quotation from Beethoven or Wagner, the music critics would jump all over the composer...
Shilts contends that as part of the Administration's efforts to distract attention from its inadequate financing and poor leadership, the U.S. Government "brazenly" conspired to steal credit for discovering the AIDS virus from researchers at France's Pasteur Institute. He dismisses as a myth the competing claim of Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute and, quoting U.S. researchers, strongly implies that Gallo stole the French strain and presented it as his own, a charge Gallo denies. Shilts labels as a "pleasant fiction" a 1987 U.S.-French political accord that settled lawsuits and deemed Gallo and France...