Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today's global, high-tech economy, where the most prized assets can be stored on a disk and surveillance equipment can fit on a shirt button. To help slow them down, Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which carries a long prison term for intellectual-property theft. The good guys haven't had much luck yet, though not for lack of effort. The FBI has nearly tripled its investigations into corporate espionage in the past year. But in 1997 at least $25 billion in intellectual property was stolen from U.S. corporations, by a conservative estimate. And these aren...
Donaldson said a similar laptop theft was reported last month...
Donaldson said students interested in avoiding laptop theft should look into a new laptop registration program implemented by HUPD this month...
...Clinton administration vehemently denies downplaying the seriousness of this breach in national security, correctly pointing out that the theft occurred during the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan. However, the Clinton policy towards China in this matter is still far from reassuring...
...administration's policy of "constructive engagement" allows China a lot of breathing room, especially in terms of economic affairs. While the administration seems to embrace China because it claims to supports "free trade"--very much controlled by the Communist government--they ignore Chinese arms sales to Pakistan and Iran, theft of American satellite technology for military use, attempts on the part of the Chinese military to influence the 1996 election, and now this key development...