Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late-night programming, television executives have traditionally taken their cue from the dictates of military history: keep women out of combat. The late-night wars, it seems, are meant to be fought by people in dark suits and cigars, not slip dresses and Virginia Slims. While Leno and Letterman steal the headlines, the ladies play host in the afternoons, minding and mending America's luridly fractious families...
Labeling Grace's actions a rip-off, though, requires something of a stretch. The company didn't steal away with the seeds and market them; it built a plant in Tumkur, near Bangalore, to process them, providing jobs for 60 Indians and contributing to the local economy. Some critics charge that demand from Grace's plant is the cause of a recent jump in neem-seed prices that has driven some small farmers out of business, but that is difficult to prove. And while India will eventually have to change its patent laws as a member of the World Trade...
...warrant charges Surette with engaging in a "larcenous scheme from 1988 to 1994 [to] steal or embezzle funds from Harvard Magazine and Harvard University approximating...
...pray when and where they wish individually. Under the Federal Equal Access Act, high school students can even form prayer clubs and use school property. As for moments of silence that are not used for prayer, there are plenty of those already during the school day. Anyone can steal a few moments to meditate...
Competition is also beginning to pit Bell vs. Bell. U.S. West, based in Englewood, Colorado, last year acquired two cable-TV systems that serve 500,000 homes in Atlanta; in addition to cable programs, U.S. West will use the systems to offer local phone service and thereby steal customers away from BellSouth...