Word: steals
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...maneuvering has already begun. Republican Representatives and Senators tried to steal a march on the White House last week by outlining alternative plans. And the early talk gives promise of a serious debate over substance, conducted in civil tones rather than by an exchange of raucous invective. Such normally fierce partisans as Senators Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy went out of their way to compliment their opponents. Clinton, in an interview with TIME, commended "the sort of spirit that seems to have enveloped the debate. There's a real openness to discussion . . . a sense that...
Before the new system was installed, thieves used to steal keys from students to get into dormitories. One of the main advantages of the key card, Fennelly said, is that police can deactivate a lost card without having to replace all the locks in a dorm...
...make it to Angkor Wat are repeatedly reminded to stay on the paths; hundreds of Khmer Rouge land mines are buried around the temples. It is also advisable to give the Kalashnikov-toting militia men "guarding" the complex a dollar or two for their services -- so they don't steal all your money...
Likewise the Brady bill, even combined with Clinton's Executive Order banning the import of assault pistols, will have little impact on young men who already have their guns or can easily steal them. The weapons of choice on the streets right now are made in America. Guns like the TEC-9, MAC-10 and MAC-11 semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman...
Harvard police Lt. John F. Rooney said yesterday that the two men were caught attempting to steal bicycles from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...