Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you meet "the boys" the topic of conversation may as likely be either "that new man Reagan" and how he might even be good for the country, or how one can keep his car from being stolen...
When Lee Dreyfus ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1978, he pledged that if elected he would return the state's growing budget surplus to the taxpayers. The maverick Republican won handily, and promptly signed into law a $976 million tax relief program. "When you recover stolen property," boasted Dreyfus, "it ought to be handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction...
...tycoon husband. The don also finds out that Fletcher is a front man for John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted...
...newspaper and radio reporters in New York City and Los Angeles to give his version of the story. In a defiant but desperate voice he maintained that he was the "scapegoat" in a pervasive plot that involved 35 Wells Fargo officers in 20 branches of the bank. The amount stolen, he said, was actually between $200 million and $300 million. Smith claimed that when suspicions began to surface at Wells Fargo three weeks ago, a group of bank employees raided his Pacific Palisades home and kidnaped his four-year-old son. They returned the child, the story went, only after...
...Maybe the boy will yet grow up with more trees than people. Oregonians are supposed to be like New Englanders: liberals in politics, but personally conservative. He has heard they can still leave their cars and houses unlocked. Now he finds himself remembering that the battery has twice been stolen out of his car, in his own garage on his own street. And recalling a recent New York headline: CITY READY TO UNLEASH SUBWAY DOG PATROL! So he heads west with his son to explore. It is June...