Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing openly racist about the movie. Part of the message is that both the Japanese and American cultures have something valuable to offer. While Douglas exemplifies American bravado, he lacks the moral fortitude of his counterparts in the Japanese police. Indeed, we later find out that Douglas used to steal money during drug busts in New York...
...steal patents? Even a curious spy can buy a copy of any single patent for $1.50. Still, a roll of the microfilm sells for about $100, and the full set could be worth at least $100,000 to inventors who must explore the past before pursuing a new idea. The FBI's best guess is that the thieves hope to sell duplicates at cut-rate prices...
...used to walk around with $10,000 in my pocket, but my father-in-law had to pay the $300 mortgage each month." In New York he would borrow $30,000 to $50,000 a week and lose about 80% of it over a weekend. "Then I'd steal," he says. Sometimes he would pilfer racks of dresses off the streets in Manhattan's garment district and sell them in a back alley. He adds, "There's plenty of times I've taken a gun and held up people -- and I'm a white-collar person." Fleeing to California...
...Washington politicians strictly followed the U.S. Military Academy's hallowed honor code, the great ethics war in the nation's capital would be over, and all the scoundrels would be gone. "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," the West Point creed commands. But while Congress and the Administration struggle to clean up their act, the fortress on the Hudson seems set to lower its ethical guns ever so slightly...
...meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer accepts jobs in East St. Louis because customers there don't pay their bills...