Now, the people whose pensions are at stake are starting to use other words, like "robbery" and "raiding," to describe the changes.
As word of the robberies spread, Hispanic advocates and day-laborer organizations passed out fliers warning of the robberies and visited the cramped houses where a dozen or more men share rooms to tell them to watch for a black S.U.V., said Irma Solis, an advocate for Hispanic day laborers.
Carlos Morales, who finds construction work with other men on the corners, said word of the robberies had startled him and other laborers.
Don't worry -- even though the title has the words "orphanage" and "robbery" in it, there's a reason you're not reading this in the "Crime" section.
Nearly every week, 70-year-old Barb Johnson hears word of a nearby robbery or car break-in in Vermont Knolls, her neighborhood of modest bungalows just west of the Harbor Freeway in South Los Angeles.
Consider the associations that are likely to appear when a city dweller hears the word "gun": handguns, murder, mugging, robbery, killing and crime.
Mr. Garcia testified that when Mr. Castillo came home late on the night of the robbery, his first words as he came though the door were, "I did it".
For The Record Los Angeles Times Saturday November 01, 2003 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 2 inches; 79 words Type of Material: Correction Robbery case -- An article in Section A on Oct. 23 about shortcomings in a corruption investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office inaccurately described an unrelated robbery case.
There was no robbery, no exchange of words, no demand of surrender, prosecutors said.
In a trance induced by the word Constantinople, Briggs conducts a series of robberies, which then vanish from his memory, robberies he is called upon to investigate for his company.
Suddenly, word spread through the parking lot: a robbery.
