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Such measures sometimes thwart the outright theft of classified documents. But they are less effective in preventing employees with trade secrets stored in their heads from jumping to competitors or starting their own firms. Since 1970, ex-IBMers have launched several highly successful computer companies, including Amdahl Corp., which makes equipment that plugs into IBM systems...
...loss was more serious than the average auto-theft, for inside the van was virtually everything Roe owned, including eight or nine cartons of books, notes and other papers, notably half of a manuscript in progress on Roe's specialty: public interest...
...story soon took a turn for the better. Following a Channel 7 evening news item the day after, the theft, a viewer, whose anonymity Roe is protecting. telephoned the police and reported seeing an abandoned trailer that matched Roe's description in a Medford field. By 9 p.m., Roe had arrived at the site and confirmed the viewer's suspicion...
Rather disparages "quick fixes" like the theft of Ellis from channel 5. His 1977 book, The Camera Never Blinks, acknowledges that for many stations, "If your ratings are low, (you) just go across town and hire the other station's anchorman." He strongly opposes this ploy, saying "the feeling is that what counts is what is on the marquee, not the integrity of your news," and argues that, in the long run, superficial facelifts do little to boost ratings...
Wills, on a Dodger team scrambling for runs, made base stealing a respectable tactic, easing the way for the records of Brock and Henderson. Brock, who flew to Milwaukee last week to help Henderson celebrate, notes that the psychology of theft has not changed a bit since his own day: "What separates the great base stealer from the rest is arrogance. You have to eliminate all fear and declare war on the entire league." The guileless Henderson cites a less bellicose reason. Says he: "I've loved to steal bases since I was a little kid. That...