He said cyberspace was providing "rich pickings", with UK defence contractors also being targeted.
With Turkey going through an economic, political and cultural transformation, there are rich pickings for film-makers.
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Crematoria have proved particularly rich pickings since a 1995 edict that encouraged local authorities to sell them.
For good reason: With the huge savings rate here, there are rich pickings for money managers with modern technology and marketing savvy.
But then, no doubt, Mr Macozoma imagines rich pickings would be waiting for ambitious businessmen, such as himself, if both processes were speeded up.
Gangsters then find rich pickings in nobbling the participants.
The pattern of continually moving from low-end industries to more sophisticated ones has characterized the Japanese economy from the beginning and these days the Japanese are quietly feasting on such rich pickings as aerospace and telecommunications.
Now the rich pickings are gone.
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More important is Mr Watson's claim that Sotheby's has handled countless smuggled antiquities from Italy and, on a bigger scale, India where unscrupulous dealers ship off rich pickings from their cultural heritage by the container-load, aided by officials happy to overlook misuse of the diplomatic bag.
As soon as a potential prime minister looks like forming a government, other politicians flock to join behind him, unrestrained by ideological differences and desperate to avoid the ignominy of a five-year term on the opposition benches, with none of the rich pickings of ministerial office.
That would be only a taster of India's rich defence pickings.
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But while the potential pickings from Russia's vast resources remain so rich, and as long as the powers that be allow BP to profit from the oil that flows, it is unlikely that BP's bosses will be having any immediate second thoughts about their Russian venture.
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