Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gypsy and Salome explore the apparently deserted town, wondering whether to present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience, they take their ramshackle operation into the interior and finally are driven to big cities buzzing with the din of portable radios and the "civilized" hustle of discos, drug deals, and leisure suits. More and more, the troupe's show business must take a backseat to the oldest...
Running a computer search on the car's license plates, the officers discovered that the tags had been reported stolen. The police quietly arrested the driver, whose name was Peter Sutcliffe, 35, a truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford. Three days later, nearly all of Britain knew of Sutcliffe: he was widely -some said recklessly-suspected of being the country's most notorious criminal, the Yorkshire Ripper, the man believed responsible for murdering 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since...
...horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then transfer money to his own account, steal private information or sabotage the system itself. Other colorfully named ploys: superzapping (penetrating a computer by activating its own emergency master program, an act comparable to opening a door with a stolen master key); scavenging (searching through stray data or "garbage" for clues that might unlock still other secrets); and piggybacking (riding into a system behind a legitimate user...
...Chicago courtroom two weeks ago, the onetime angel pleaded not guilty to charges that he had stolen $1.3 million from his employer over the past four years to support his wife's ambitions. It was one of Cook County's largest embezzlement cases, and it could be a tragic last act for a promising opera company...
Salig Ram Saha, 17, the son of a goldsmith, had just collected 800 rupees (about $100) from one of his father's customers, when he ran into the police dragnet. In the crime-ridden state of Bihar, police assumed that the young man had stolen the cash. They took him to the Rajon police station. When he would not confess, they pinned him down to the floor and punctured his eyes with needles. Then corrosive acid was poured into the bleeding sockets. Saha, whose eyelids are completely fused shut, is one of at least 30 people who have been...