Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first incidence of theft a the Faculty Club in several months, four Wallets containing a total of $35 and several credit cards were stolen from the club's coatroom, a police spokesman said yesterday...
...theft victim, Erica S. Elsenberg '86, said yesterday that she went to the club at 6:15 p.m. to have dinner with a professor and sevoral other students and left her wallet in her coat when she left it in the controom. Two hours later she retrieved her coal and discovered her waller was missing...
...food imports and a 50% increase in fresh-water production since the 1979 coup. The government even managed a $2.5 million surplus in 1982, half of which went to repay the country's past debts. Social tranquillity has appeared: the major crime in Grenada is "praedial larceny," the theft of garden vegetables. Some of the government's highest marks, in fact, come from its chief critics. "I would vote for them if they trusted us with a free vote," says one of Grenada's leading figures in his own twist of sensible island logic. "But they...
...major theft is one of the worst disasters that can befall an auction house, since it tends to undermine the trust placed in the institution by the owners of the fine art and other collectibles that it sells. But the missing diamond is only one of several problems now besetting the London-based Sotheby's. Last year the company lost $4.6 million on revenues of $80 million, and now it is fighting a formidable takeover attempt...
...circuited the wiring and removed vital parts, reducing $500,000 worth of equipment to electronic scrap. But Swiss authorities warn that the scam may have a different twist: accounts of the CIA's role might have been planted by the KGB to reduce Western anxieties about the wholesale theft of technology by the Soviets...