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Word: thefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This mall has always had problems, it was always a target for heavy theft," Proulx says...

Author: By Rachel C. Telegen, | Title: CambridgeSide Mall Revitalizes East Cambridge | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...hottie," said one of Thomas's friends). Jessica, her 22-year-old older sister, graduated from Stanford last year and now lives in Maryland. Justin, her 24-year-old brother, is in jail (But not for teaching her how to burp. "Typically delinquency," Thomas says. "Car theft, drug dealing, the usual. No killings...that I know of." And then she laughs...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Not Exactly Miss Manners | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...criminal activity. In touting the "dusk to dawn" curfew in New Orleans, Clinton said curfews are needed to "bring more order and structure and discipline" to young people's lives. The New Orleans curfew is credited with reducing crime in the city by 27 percent and reducing auto theft by 42 percent. Clinton praised curfews in place in several American cities including Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago and Denver. The curfews require children under 17 to be home by 8 p.m. on school nights and 11 p.m. on weekends. Exemptions are allowed for teenagers who are married, or going to and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curfew Card | 5/31/1996 | See Source »

...poet laureate of England (Tennyson, say, in the days when the post and poetry mattered) had been found guilty of plagiarism, it would be an interesting cultural scandal. To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BATTLE WITH NO VICTORS | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...recent rise in crime on campus is alarming. A theft in Eliot House and attacks near Mather House and Adams House are signs that something must be done to improve safety around the River Houses, not to mention in the Quad area. In contrast, the Yard seems to be a pretty safe place. Blue-light emergency phones dot the Yard, a Harvard University Police substation occupies the basement of Weld Hall and many gates of the Yard are locked every evening to protect first-years from the criminals of Cambridge. The knowledge that, as upperclass students, we are far less...

Author: By Amy M. Rabinowitz, | Title: College Should Improve Safety | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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