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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a year after joining the gang, Hagan was drinking, fighting and smoking PCP with the best of the home boys. Eager to please the older gang members, he became the fearless errand boy, quickly learning to rob and steal and priding himself on his growing reputation as a "crazy." He says: "I was like a hardhead. The more my parents told me to stay away from gangs, the more I wanted to hang with them." He has his own ideas about parenthood: "If I had a son, I would give him a choice: either he can go to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...system has a more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...their own ministry, perhaps in California. For an hour Bakker defended himself as a "visionary" who had a "dream to build something very special for God's people." He asked, "Even if Jim and Tammy did everything we're accused of, does that give Jerry Falwell the right to steal my dream, my life, my home, my everything and my reputation from me?" Amid the growing investigative ferment surrounding the wounded ministry, it appeared that a host of interested parties would soon be trying to answer that question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Money | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards and win the confidence of Tuck's skeptical girlfriend (Meg Ryan). If Tuck has anything to do with it, Jack will find all the resources he needs right inside him. And his arrogant little friend, who is fond of gazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...robotics industry is barely limping along. -- Labor is irked by falling wages. -- The Soviets steal the Paris Air Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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