It suspended loans to Chad after the government reneged on an agreement designed to minimise the filching of oil revenues.

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Professional codes instruct lawyers to be civil, but rudeness isn't tracked or punished as much as more concrete trespasses, such as filching clients' money.

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Canon Rideout, of Filching Close, who was ordained in 1962, is accused of abusing more than a dozen girls and boys at the home between 1962 and 1973.

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While some thefts come from stolen wallets containing Social Security cards and the like, thieves also are filching Social Security numbers in sneakier ways, such as from health-care or financial databases.

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