Word: theft
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Unfortunately, the fine play went for naught as the Cardinals committed what assistant coach Kevin Welsh called a "highway robbery" in stealing the game. To prevent future theft, the Crimson must simply begin to capitalize on scoring opportunities...
...vote opened up the lawmakers to charges of "legislating morality." The charge is true: indeed, most laws, such as those against theft and murder, involve moral judgments. When the danger of doing wrong is greatest, the legislature must be best prepared to decide along moral lines; in this case, while legal debate over the ethics involved prevented the legislature from taking a stronger stand, it did what it could to prevent the state from involving itself it what it saw as clearly wrong...
...eyes are baggy from lack of sleep, and his speech has quickened and become more salty. Last week, after 100 hectic days as special counsel for the Government Services Administration, former Federal Prosecutor Vincent Alto declared that the web of GSA mismanagement, employee theft and kickbacks from private contractors he has begun to uncover could well turn out to be "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government...
...much as "a half-million dollars" through television appearances and writing books about the slaying. But Eist's credibility came under assault from Lane, who said he had just learned that Eist had been dismissed from Scotland Yard and charged with perjury and bribery in a jewel-theft case. In fact, Eist was tried in 1976 on charges of perverting justice and conspiracy to commit corruption, but was acquitted...
...agent in St. Louis who talked with the informant wrote up a report-but then filed it in his office rather than forwarding it to other agents working on the King case. Not until Byers came under investigation for an art theft last spring in St. Louis did the FBI discover the report. The Justice Department promptly passed it along to the House committee...