Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and in CIA attempts to kill Fidel Castro--there's the Mob again--as well as his inflated victory over...
...talking about kidnap victims or terrorists holding hostages. It's art. It's great art, but if you help art thieves, you help create that market. It would be outrageous if a ransom were paid for this, because it will create more incentive for people to go and steal...
...databases are very important," says stock analyst John Rohs, managing director of Schroder & Co. "In a mature market you need a good database, basically to steal the customer from the guy next door. To steal him, you need to know a lot about him. What he plays, what he eats and so forth." Mirage Resorts is at work on a system at its Golden Nugget casino to allow hotel clerks instantaneous access to a client's gambling history to determine what sort of room or comps to offer...
...Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art" was recently published by BasicBooks (despite having been rejected by 30 previous publishers prior to the book's success in France), and The New York Times Arts section featured Feliciano last week in an article titled, "A Bulldog on the Heels of Lost Nazi Loot". But how scandalous were Feliciano's findings? Should the art world really be up in arms about Nazi looted art that is still in French museums? As it turns out, the French have behaved quite responsibly under the circumstances. The intrepid...
...possession of a facility with the opposite sex. However, in the desolate housing projects of Brooklyn's Crown Heights section and the depressed pockets of rural Chautauqua County in western New York, the crack dealer collected female admirers with displays of bravado, promises of jewelry, a willingness to steal a coat if a girl found herself too cold. "It don't take much, you know. These girls don't have much," explains Lakeesha Moore, a former New York City neighbor of Williams'. "He had money, and he'd buy them things, take them out sometimes. Talk to them...