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...cracking down on foreign counterfeiters who make imitations of American products protected by U.S. patents, copyrights and trademarks. The violators, often Southeast Asian firms, have sold bogus goods ranging from look-alike Eveready batteries to plagiarized computer software. International counterfeiting may cost the U.S. $20 billion in sales a year...
Currently, arbitrary deadlines determine the timing of the computer tests. The Core office reminds freshmen of the deadlines through two or three communiques scattered thoughout the year. The bogus deadlines come and go, without any strict enforcement--until the last minute pile-up, like last week's episode, in which one third of the class waits in line for hours and graders pull marathon sessions until...
...already existing law to a handgun decontrol bill? It seems transparent that the provision in question is there so that our centerfold, Robert Kliesment, can go on about how the NRA is making our streets safe for good honest citizens by locking criminals behind bars. Without this bogus provision, the NRA ad would have been impossible...
...abandoned its attempt to man with armed guards the more than 700 watchtowers along the roughly 850-mile German border. Instead, the East Germans are now using life-size cardboard soldiers to scare off would-be Western invaders--and potential defectors. How many of the tower guards are bogus is anyone's guess. "Sometimes they are placed in the towers for only a few hours," says a spokesman for the West German border police. "The idea is to give the impression that the towers are occupied...
ACTUALLY, THERE IS one other possibility for this Holocaust garbage: the makers of the Delta Force included the symbolism to make the first half of the movie as bogus as possible. If this was the goal, they succeeded. It was certainly the most over-acted piece of modern film I have ever seen...