Word: stolen
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...consumer telephone sales, once 80%, is now down to 50%, and the company has closed its telephone-making plant in Indianapolis. Revenues from telephone rentals are shrinking fast too, as more and more phone users buy their own phones. Such competitors as GTE and Northern Telecom have stolen about half of the $12.5 billion a year in business that AT&T once did with the local operating companies. Computer sales, which have been depressed for nearly all firms, are especially bad for AT&T. Said Fritz Ringling, an analyst with Connecticut's Gartner Group: "The company...
...plot is sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...
Four bicycles--two in Harvard Yard. one in the Dunster House courtyard and another near the Science Center--were taken last week. No suspects were reported for the thefts of the bikes from Yard, which were valued at a total of $316.50. The Dunster theft, valued at $60, was stolen between 5 p.m. July 1 and 12:35 a.m July 2. The bike taken from the northwest die of the Science Center was valued at $150 and stolen between 11 a.m and 1 p.m Last Tuesday...
EASTWOOD HAS ALSO STOLEN from his own movies. If there is one thing that never changes in any of his films, it is that the female leads are lousy. The young girl who prays for Eastwood's appearance and subsequently desires to sleep with him plays her role with snivelling mediocrity. The mother who beats out her daughter in the battle for Clint is developed only slightly better. The only thing to be thankful for is the absence of Sondra Locke...
...over all syndication fees from the Mengele story to Auschwitz survivors and to descendants of the camp's victims; Gunther Len Schonfeld, head of Stern's news department, told TIME that the generous-seeming gesture was "a show of hypocrisy." Privately, some editors at Bunte accused Stern of having stolen its cache of Mengele materials. Journalists at Stern complained that Bunte had violated copyright laws by running pictures owned by the Bosserts...