Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Financier Charles Keating Jr., who cost investors $250 million when his Lincoln Savings & Loan Association in Irvine, Calif., collapsed, was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison and fined $250,000. "Charles Keating did not steal a loaf of bread," said Harriet Chappuise, one of the elderly people who lost money in the failure. "He stole the bread out of the mouths of thousands of old people...
...inviting violent, hate-mongering racists. Racists like Jeffries who say that white people should be "wipe [d]...off the face of the earth." Thugs like Jeffries who threatened to kill a Crimson reporter if he published racist and anti-Semitic comments Jeffries made and who had his bodyguards steal the reporter's tapes...
According to Hwang, several Brown studentsdisguised themselves as television journalistslast year in an attempt to steal the drum. Theywere ultimately caught and arrested, but the banddid not press charges...
...money goes to maintenance of the monuments. "What money we get comes from Phnom Penh," says Uong Von, director of the Angkor Conservation Office. This office, with only 72 employees in the Angkor area, must deal not only with environmental degradation but also with thieves who are ready to steal any artifact, including statues carved into the building blocks of the monuments...
...many of the latest gangsters come from China, recruited by Hong Kong criminal rings. To stop the influx, the British administration is pledging to work closely with Beijing, which will assume control of the colony in 1997 and whose patrols have been letting more and more people and goods steal past the border. Hong Kong police are pressing for a quicker, simpler response: more money and better weapons...