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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tigers acclimated themselves to unfamiliar surroundings nicely, taking both the men's and women's races. The Princeton men clogged the top-ten to steal a 34-35 victory from Harvard while the women cruised to a 20-50 win over the Crimson. Yale placed a distant third in both races...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: Harriers Cop Second at HYP | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

...State Department. If that is not possible, Moynihan says, the agency should shrink its budget, a classified figure that is currently between $25 billion and $30 billion a year. "Downsize, downsize," Moynihan advises. "Don't look for silly, quasi-cold war tasks like 'Find the narcoterrorists' or 'Steal the economic secrets of Albania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence: Crisis in Spooksville | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...along the Malecon, for instance, boasts two restaurants, a video room with Sony TVs, a roller-skating rink, a disco with an Italian-designed light system and a pool with cavorting men and women. The entry fee to the government-operated club is only 1 peso (6 cents), a steal compared with the admission price at the Havana Club. Around Havana the youthful influence has spiced up revolutionary slogans, which are now splashed in neon colors on the walls. Sumate! (Get involved!) says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Dancing the Socialist Line | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...know, however, that in its police function the press relies less on the Constitution than on the Ten Commandments, although not all of them. "Thou shalt not steal" is much less interesting than "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Until recently, the cautious public figure searching for a baseline against which to measure his conduct could look to the Gary Hart scandal of 1987. Roughly translated, the Hart standard meant that the conduct in question had to be verified, reckless, substantial and current, by a candidate running for President. The challenge Follow Me was optional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Busybodies on the Bus | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Most of the opposition favors extending the vote to both later-arriving Kuwaitis and women, but there are indications that the Emir will steal their thunder by broadening the franchise himself. "We have botched almost everything since liberation," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the Prime Minister's adviser, "but through politics we now have a chance to recoup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Back to the Past | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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