Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although this was the largest high-technology theft in the so-called Silicon Valley, the mecca of prosperous, advanced companies located just south of San Francisco, it was only the latest incident. An estimated $20 million worth of computers and integrated circuits is now being stolen annually in the region...
This was the second theft in twelve months at Monolithic. Last December, in a case yet to be solved, $120,000 worth of platinum used in the manufacture of semiconductors vanished from the firm. Earlier, at the Intel Corp., which is located 1½ miles away from Monolithic, 10,000 memory devices for microcomputers, worth $1 million, were stolen by an employee. Those chips found their way to underground distributors in West Germany, who sold them to the unsuspecting West German manufacturer Siemens. Authorities say that other equipment stolen from the Silicon Valley has wound up in Eastern Europe...
Security mirrors and monitors for the late-night stretches as well as the standard "allowances for theft" of a city business, keep his overhead and thus his prices high, Higgins says. He defends the store against the accusation so many customers level at it--that it takes unfair advantage of its monopoly on late-night business to keep prices unnecessarily high. "There's a lot of competition," he insists, pointing to Sage's and Nini's Corner, the main daytime rivals. "You charge because it costs you money to stay open--any other store here would do the same...
...game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving the stadium than they do the game," declares John F. Scovell, president of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association and a prominent Dallas real estate developer. Says Bentsen, who organized the theft attempt: "If it's a feud, it's a positive...
...give to the military in 1982. Four days of planning for the MX missile program costs $16 million. The situation in Boston seems grotesquely similar to President Eisenhower's observation in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who cold and are not clothed...