Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black cook in the Freshman Union said yesterday that he will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the University Police racially discriminated against him in their investigation of a small money theft at the Union...
...Jack W. Morse, captain of the University Police, said yesterday that it was just "routine police work," and that although Wright did not commit the theft, a witness placed him at the scene of the theft...
...captain further explained that the police did a fair job of investigating the theft, and that Wright's presence at the scene made him a logical person to question. "I really don't see how he was singled out," he added
Such measures sometimes thwart the outright theft of classified documents. But they are less effective in preventing employees with trade secrets stored in their heads from jumping to competitors or starting their own firms. Since 1970, ex-IBMers have launched several highly successful computer companies, including Amdahl Corp., which makes equipment that plugs into IBM systems...
...Hirschfield, expressed an emotion rare in Hollywood: shock. Although he loved the glamour and glitz of films-Hirschfield once broke his toe tripping over the edge of a Jacuzzi while staring at Actress Polly Bergen-he was, as colleagues observed, a classic "bottom-liner" who frowned on peccadilloes like theft and forgery. After a period of indecision, the Harvard-trained executive saw no other alternative: Begelman...