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Word: thefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desiccated, wood has cracked and animal skins have split because of erratic temperatures. And periodically, in hot weather, beetle eggs unexpectedly hatch and the insects eat their way through plant specimens in the botany department. Security will be tight, to avoid embarrassing losses like last summer's theft of one set of George Washington's false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning the Nation's Attic | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

ITHACA, New York--An assistant professor at the University of Florida (UF) was recently charged with grand theft for allegedly using a fraudulent Cornell University transcript to obtain the $33,000-a-year position. The Cornell Daily Sun reported last week...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Fraudulent Professor | 2/6/1982 | See Source »

...their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit from the workers' labor was theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: The Specter and the Struggle | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...really feel retail sales are down this year," Sullivan said, a trend she says is making retailers pay more attention to the problems of shoplifting and employee theft. "Ten cents of every dollar spent in retail stores goes to fight shoplifting." she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun, Sock Sales Steady in Slow Season | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

...back, open atmosphere modeled after college campuses. But that is changing. A group of companies has formed the Industrial Security Managers Group and is putting pressure on law-enforcement agencies to pursue these crimes. The FBI, Commerce Department, local police and sheriffs department are now involved in major chip-theft cases. A new private investigation firm in Palo Alto is also specializing in these high-technology crimes. Those groups hope that together they can write the final chapter in Goodbye Mr. Chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valley of Thefts | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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