Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because narcotics abuse spawns stealing, companies that specialize in investigating employee theft are much in demand. A Baltimore firm called Loss Management provides its clients with a national hot line and has solved cases with the help of office tipsters who report theft at their place of work. In one case, a clerk called the hot line when the invoices she was processing did not add up correctly. As it turned out, three top managers at the company were embezzling money to buy cocaine...
...with good reason. The costs of drug abuse on the job are staggering. The consequences range from accidents and injuries to theft, bad decisions and ruined lives. According to the Research Triangle Institute, a respected North Carolina business-sponsored research organization, drug abuse cost the U.S. economy $60 billion in 1983, or nearly 30% more than the $47 billion estimated for 1980. Other studies have found that employees who use drugs are far less productive than their co-workers and miss ten or more times as many workdays. Drug abusers are three times as likely as nonusers to injure themselves...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
There was only one clear-cut thing about the election ritual that unfolded at some 90,000 polling stations around the Philippines. Sporadically at first, then with increasing blatancy, the long-awaited exercise was marred by unsettling levels of violence, fraud, vote buying and ballot theft. More than a day after the polls closed, the official vote count by the Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had slowed to a crawl. Communications linking that effort to a parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many...
...Harvard Police would not comment on the apparent theft...