Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ETHICS course taught last semester, a professor presented an age-old problem to his students. If a man is starving and without a job, is it acceptable for him to steal food for his family. The professor finished the lecture and the course without giving an answer...
...Book of One's Own is filled with such arch utterances. F. Scott Fitzgerald plants a definition in his notebook: "Debut--the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public." Choreographer Martha Graham admits, "I am a thief --and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to me --Plato--Picasso--Bertram Ross--the members of my company never show me anything--except (to) expect me to steal...
...experts, are store employees, especially temporary Christmas salespeople who have little or no loyalty to their employer. A new study by Arthur Young & Co., a major accounting firm, shows that employees account for 44% of store thefts, while 30% is done by outside shoplifters. The urge to steal from stores cuts across class lines, seducing almost everyone from bored housewives to lawyers. The typical offender is the run-of-the-aisle customer who steals one or two items. Says Sensormatic President Ronald Assaf: "They're the ones who cause the real problems." Teen-agers and members of minority groups...
Professional shoplifters, who are a major factor, usually work in teams. One person distracts the clerk and watches for store detectives, while the other pockets the booty. Professionals frequently steal targeted items and then sell them to people who have ordered them. A favorite is jewelry. Some professionals have been caught with detailed maps of a city's shopping areas, showing stores and the best times to make...
...prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...