Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the paper, a Warwick-based company, World Wide Electronics, has for months sold its substandard speakers from vans, intimating to consumers that its goods have been stolen and are available at fractions of their original prices...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard was forced to wear its JV uniforms after a number of the varsity road outfits were stolen following last weekend's game at Cornell. Duncan was forced from his usual 42 into number 40...The Crimson rebounded to shoot 54.3 percent from the floor in the second half but still finished at 42 percent for the game...Kyle Dodson played only nine minutes in the game and sat out the entire second half with a bad knee bruise...
That night, while sleeping inside Moses' boma in the Loita Hills, the visitor dreamed that he raided cattle on West 57th Street in Manhattan. He loaded four stolen cows into a cattle trailer towed by an old Chrysler Imperial and drove them up across the Connecticut border...
...with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover. He claimed to be exploring the use of animals as sexual surrogates and writing a book tentatively called How to Prevent Homosexuality in Your Children. His basement contained items of even more interest to the law: 580 grams of marijuana, illegal pills, stolen office equipment, four gallons of nitric acid, gun silencers made from automobile oil filters and Brink's security-guard uniforms used in a robbery of a Sears store. Smith was in prison for that caper when he was charged with the Reinert deaths...
Even without the threat posed by guerrillas, not all Third World aid reaches its destination. Some is skimmed off by corrupt middlemen, some may wind up in the pockets of a country's officials, and still more may spoil or be stolen. "I wouldn't claim that 100% gets exactly where it should," concedes Jean-Pierre Hocke, United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Hocke estimates that up to 10% of relief contributions for refugees never gets to them. Says Millicent Fenwick, the American envoy to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome: "You have to understand that...