Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moses then told the manager that the guards had stopped her because she is Black, she said. When Moses asked the manager why she had been suspected, he replied that she had probably intended to steal the CD, but later decided against it, according to her account...
...federal law allowed police agencies to keep assets seized from drug traffickers and money launderers. But not, of course, for personal use. Last week six members of an elite Los Angeles County sheriff's narcotics squad were convicted of conspiring to steal $48,000. They were acquitted of larceny on a grander scale: spending $1.4 million in confiscated cash on luxury cars, boats, jewelry and vacation homes...
...much simpler than that. Every book in Widener library is a potential target of theft. You needn't even be that clever or devious to steal books from Harvard; it's as easy as walking out the door...
...that guard each exit of Harvard's libraries do not earn their keep. Each week, we flush thousands of dollars down the toilet paying a flock of well-mannered Cantabridgians to arch their necks at students passing by with their backpacks unzipped. It's as easy as pie to steal a book from these folks...
...College Library has no security. Neither does the Divinity School. Theoretically, one could walk out of each with a shopping bag full of loot. But, as a Div. School librarian told me, the cost of paying checkers is more than the cost of replacing stolen books. (Besides, if you steal a book from the Divinity School, you go straight to hell anyway...