Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computers and their programs can be in providing evidence of something as shady and nebulous as plagiarism. Thanks to their computational speed and power, computers can riffle through reams of data and pinpoint patterns of repetition the naked eye might never notice. But what do these patterns signify? Intentional theft? Random clusters of words attracted to each other by grammar or syntax? Something in between? Interestingly enough, some historians who received the Stewart-Feder report decided it exonerated Oates of any suspicion of plagiarism, since the examples showed how much the majority of his writing differed from his presumed sources...
...brighter side, the spectacle of so many intelligent people becoming exercised over the possibility of plagiarism serves as a reminder that the subject is of more than academic concern. The theft of ideas or expressions degrades the currency of information exchanges. True wit, after all, is Nature to advantage dressed; what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed (Pope, Essay on Criticism...
Opposition Theft Up: It seems like the word has been spread around the Ivy League to run on Harvard. Opponents are stealing bases at an 86.1 percent rate (31-for-36), while the Crimson is only 12-for-22, a 54.5 per-cent success rate...
Victims described the weapons used against them as pipes and wrenches. Police said they believe that the motor vehicle anti theft device called the "Club" was also used...
...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...