Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Software Publishers Association says piracy of spreadsheet and similar programs lost companies $7.4 billion in 1993, compared to about $8 billion in sales. The worst abuses were in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. But Stanton McCandlish, the maverick Electronic Frontier Foundation's "on-line activist," argues the theft trend may have actually helped the complaining software industry: "Piracy gets software exposure. People are 1,000 times more likely to go and buy newer versions and manuals once they've been exposed to it."parpar
...relatives and the public by using money donated for the twins' care on fancy restaurants, a car and cocaine binges, Kenny has spent much of the past year in jail. He was in a drug-rehabilitation center when Angela died; hours after her death he was arraigned on auto-theft charges...
...good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who has investigated the scandal. "It appears that the Abu Dhabians believe that $9 billion was the order of magnitude of the theft. Good luck, guys. Nobody else can find that money...
According to Lt. John F. Rooney, an average of three bikes per day are stolen from the Square, which has the highest bike theft rate in Cambridge. That's a particularly troubling figure in a city recently dubbed the "bike theft capital of Massachusetts" by The Boston Globe...
...rumors grow that he will retire, Police Chief Paul E. Johnson sits atop a department which over the past 12 months has been overwhelmed by internal disarray accused of racism and tarnished by a botched investigation into an alleged theft by two security guards...