Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their inhabitants. During his visit to Armenia after rushing back from New York City two weeks ago, Gorbachev asked a television interviewer, "Who is to blame for the fact that in the concrete blocks there is too little cement but more than enough sand? This means the cement was stolen. By whom?" Leonid Bibin, deputy chairman of the state building committee, launched an investigation into why so many of the more recently built homes collapsed, and said criminal charges could be brought. Pravda said the poor construction, like so many other shortcomings in the Soviet system, could be attributed...
...They will have to come up with something in the contract that will make the campus safer and not only for women," said one support staff worker, who said that her purse was stolen from her desk last week. The worker asked not to be identified...
Wayne Clark had earlier plead "not guilty" to charges of larceny of a license, possesion of a stolen license and breaking and entering in the daytime, but changed his plea on Friday...
...July 6, 1988, "escapade" in Harvard Yard. Murphy said Jason Wilcox, who was living in Canaday at the time, awoke around 4:30 p.m. to find a man standing in his room. The man left and Wilcox later found that his keys and some of his money had been stolen, he said...
...closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom humor that makes The Naked Gun seem like Police Academy with a brain. Well, maybe three brains. Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie...