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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hang heartrending depictions of slaughter, ruin and misery, painted since the Gulf War. On the sidewalks, poor families sell their meager household goods to procure enough money to eat. In the back alleys, women offer their bodies for sale -- an extreme act of desperation in Muslim society -- and men steal cars or rob their neighbors' houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam, Still | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...American Express, and Peter Cohen, the not-so-well-liked and not-at-all-effective chairman and CEO of Amex's subsidiary, Shearson Lehman Hutton. The triumvirate offered stockholders a bid of $75 a share, which added up to billions less than RJR was worth, making it quite a steal. Worse, the deal left Johnson in control and allowed him a package under which he and his pals could haul in as much as $2.5 billion. Yes, billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbarians on The Screen | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...album closes with Epilogue (Nothing 'bout Me), a swinging, carefree ditty in which the singer takes a parting shot at his would-be analysts. Like a puppeteer peeking out from behind the curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Velvet-Lined Shackles | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...that members of Parliament will be stripped of their immunity from criminal prosecution, sent party higher-ups into a frenzy. Says sociologist Franco Ferrarotti of the University of Rome: "These people always operated on the concept that public funds belong to the person who grabs them first. Whatever they steal is theirs. There has never been a concept of public service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sick of It All | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...construction industry, they are monitored. The FBI maintains close contacts with manufacturers and dealers, while sales are tightly regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Though the Pentagon possesses its own plastic explosive, a Semtex relative called C-4, a would-be terrorist would have to steal it from a military facility -- a theft that would probably be detected. Other explosives might be simpler to accumulate, however, like ammonium nitrate, an ordinary component of fertilizer that has been a favorite of the Irish Republican Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tower Terror | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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