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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Dunster society saidyesterday that they had earlier secured some ofthe same films. They said they were unaware of thepolicy changes that allowed Quincy to "steal" someof their movies, according to committeeCo-President James Chung...

Author: By Naheed Rehman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Houses Squabble Over Films | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

David goes on the steal both the quarter back position from Charles Dillon (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend. The final confrontation between David and Dillon erupts over cheating on a history exam. It is up to the honor code and the honor of his peers to save...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: One Man Finds That the Price of Conformity is Loss of Dignity in School Ties | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...loaf of bread costs 190 shillings and a pair of trousers 4,000 shillings. "Nobody in Tanzania expects to survive on his salary," says Thomas Mrima, a truck driver who plies between Tanzania, Rwanda and Zaire. "Everybody makes money with everything he can lay his hands on. They steal government stores and sell them over the border. They use government machinery for private building contracts." Ripping off the government has become a popular sport: it is thought of as stealing from thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: the Scramble for Survival | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...drugs, its overheated sex, its atmosphere of astonishing casual violence. Last week on the family-values dais in Houston, after Bush's acceptance speech, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a conspicuous honored guest. In the first few minutes of Terminator 2, parents do not fail to notice, Schwarzenegger, in order to steal someone's motorcycle and clothes, drives a long-bladed knife through a man's shoulder, pinning him to a pool table, and fries another man's hands and face on the griddle of a restaurant. Ten-year- olds watch Schwarzenegger's disgusting violence and absorb it as if it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly out of the grass roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Hail to the Prisoner | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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