Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spill is just part of a much bigger problem. Russia has more than a million miles of gas and oil pipelines, many of them poorly maintained and some in very bad shape. Every year, up to a fifth of Russia's total oil production is lost -- partly to theft, but much of it through leakage. Komineft, the company whose oil is now polluting the northern terrain, is one of the most consistent offenders. For six years, says Stephen MacSerraigh of the oil industry magazine Nefte Compass, "the Komineft pipelines have averaged about 10 leaks a month. If you fly over...
...five foosballs were removed from the Quincy House table by a mysterious kleptomaniac. You might ask, "What can you do with a foosball except play foosball?" Perhaps someone with a lot of time to waste could tell you. The value of the balls is only about $15, so this theft constitutes the most petty of larcenies...
...specific time frame or suspects have been linked with the theft. The police plan to interview more people at the Institute, according to Rooney...
Cassidy wrote that Sword has "voluntarily provided to authorities a...Statement wherein he admitted the theft of approximately...
...works go back to Germany -- on condition that the Germans return a proportionate amount of the things they swiped. It would be intolerable for President Yeltsin to give in to the pressure of the ultranationalists and nostalgic apparatchiks who want to keep the looted art in Russia as "reparations." Theft is theft. But there may be capital to be made from letting go. Is it too hard to imagine an accord between Germany and Russia through which the mutual return of the loot was preceded by a series of spectacular international exhibitions...