Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profited more from the killing frenzy than Arkan. Since the paramilitaries from Serbia were paid mainly in what they could steal, theft provoked many atrocities. Arkan reportedly had a price list for "liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment...
Police initially believed the tragedy grew out of a theft. Under questioning, the boys tearfully admitted entering the Bermudez family's apartment to steal a Big Wheel-style tricycle. While searching for the toy, they discovered the infant and, for no apparent reason, beat him hard enough to fracture his skull and cause severe internal bleeding. Then they dropped him on the bed and fled with the tricycle. Maria Bermudez, who was babysitting her step-brother, discovered his bruised and limp body when she came out of the bathroom...
...being raised by single mothers, did not seem well supervised and wandered the streets into the evening. The twins reportedly got in fights and took penknives to school, while the six-year-old was said to be a bully and troublemaker, entering homes and backyards to steal things and pulling a boy's hair until he cried. "He always had a stick or something, and was trying to get us when we rode our bikes," Jorge Ponce, 13, told the Mercury News. "He'd hit me or hit my bike, and I would be telling him to stop...
...have purchased a few items on the Net. The sites were never advertised as being "safe" for transactions; however, in my opinion, it would be easier for someone to obtain a receipt or carbon copy of a "conventional" credit-card transaction or for a dishonest employee to steal your credit-card number than to go to the trouble of invading your "privacy" on the Net. And only a small percentage of people on the Net have the knowledge of how to tap someone's credit-card account illegally. EDWARD L. WENTZ III Oak Ridge, North Carolina...
...this time. They have staked their survival on two basic strategies. First, fly into a place, like Fresno, California, that the major carriers have largely abandoned. Second, don't pick the big guys' pockets; use low-fare, no-frills flights to expand the market. The idea isn't to steal market share but to create a bigger, two-tiered market...