Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacation. As soon as that worker was cleared, the Fed set a trap. It created fictitious money-supply data and then rigged the computer telephone line with a tracing device. When Langevin made his next call, he was caught. Says a Fed official: "He walked into the henhouse to steal some chickens, and the gate closed behind...
...this way of life that the Czechs themselves joke about it constantly. They even made a film about it titled Friday Is No Holiday. The movie shows workers plodding lazily through their jobs during most of the week. Then comes Friday, and suddenly the proletariat turns industrious. Some steal bricks to complete the lakeside cottage, others "borrow" pipes for a private plumbing job or barter for extra gasoline to make a weekend excursion. Released in 1978, the film drew packed houses in theaters across the country during its run. The boffo business was not surprising in a country where...
After Greg Wildes hit a baseline jumper to balance a Dartmouth tally. Dixon nabbed a steal and broke away for the lay-in that put the Crimson on top to stay. Monroe Trout added a back-door bucket to stretch the margin to four, and Pluinicki finished what he had started with a baseline 12-footer...
...additional infusion of funds lent an entirely new dimension to the endemic problem of corruption. Although Mexicans are accustomed to the idea that their elected officials will steal "a little bit," they were not prepared for the flagrant abuses that began to be obvious. To many Mexicans, the previous regime's corruption is best symbolized by "Dog Hill," an Olympian, 32.5-acre complex high above the Mexico City smog line, where López Portillo has built palatial homes for himself and his children...
Backing up the Harvard scorers were Plutnicki, co-Captain George White and center Monnie Trout underneath The trie nabbed 17 rebounds to lead the Crimson domination of the boards Trout in his first start of the floor, rejecting two shots and making a steal...