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...desiccated, wood has cracked and animal skins have split because of erratic temperatures. And periodically, in hot weather, beetle eggs unexpectedly hatch and the insects eat their way through plant specimens in the botany department. Security will be tight, to avoid embarrassing losses like last summer's theft of one set of George Washington's false teeth...
What most alarms businessmen is that the prevalence of computer crime is unknown and probably unknowable. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts the annual loss from electronic theft at $100 million. But computer-crime specialists say that the true figure could be considerably higher. Much chicanery goes undetected, and even when culprits are caught, the victimized company often tries to hush up the scandal and absorb its losses rather than admit to having poor computer security. Says Charles Lecht, president of Advanced Computer Techniques Corp., which distributes computer equipment: "The crime you see is a fraction of what...
ITHACA, New York--An assistant professor at the University of Florida (UF) was recently charged with grand theft for allegedly using a fraudulent Cornell University transcript to obtain the $33,000-a-year position. The Cornell Daily Sun reported last week...
...their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit from the workers' labor was theft...
...really feel retail sales are down this year," Sullivan said, a trend she says is making retailers pay more attention to the problems of shoplifting and employee theft. "Ten cents of every dollar spent in retail stores goes to fight shoplifting." she added...