Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wholeheartedly sympathize with the students whose belongings have been stolen, or whose emotions have been shaken at the thought of strangers invading their dorm rooms. But having said that, we simply cannot endorse some of the solutions that have been suggested in light of the recent burst of theft in the Yard...
Late Wednesday night, in retaliation for the theft of the gong, Adams residents entered Pforzheimer, plastering signs that read "the sun never sets on the pfadams empire...
...under a cash-balance plan, 40- to 50-year-olds about to enter their peak earning years can lose up to half of their expected final payout. To drive that point home, some Big Blue employees flew a banner over the Minnesota state fair that read, IBM'S PENSION THEFT COULD HAPPEN...
...Feds suspect that Benex served as a conduit for capital fleeing Russia, either legitimate or criminal profits, and want to know whether U.S. banks facilitated foreign theft. When the Republic National Bank sent an investigator out to an address in Queens that some of the Benex funds had been wired to, it found nothing there at all. "We have a company that exists only to collect dollars from Russia for transmission elsewhere," says an investigator. "Who the hell knows who's on the other end of the line...
...without the cash to function. The most chilling consequence of that for Americans is not financial but psychological. When Russia repudiated communism in 1991, Western values enjoyed immense admiration and influence. That has vanished as millions of Russians have learned to equate reform with corruption and free markets with theft and misery. The hostility to the U.S. that has built up is genuine and pervasive...