Word: counterfeited
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...past, counterfeit goods were returned by the Customs Service to the exporter. But after appeals from Cartier and some 50 other manufacturers that have banded together in the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the Los Angeles officials became the first in the U.S. to take advantage of a 1978 law enabling the Customs Service to confiscate counterfeit property and destroy...
...squashed shipment of watches represents no more than a fraction of the counterfeit goods that move in international trade every day. Counterfeits are a problem for such other well-known brand-name products as Levi Strauss blue jeans, Puma running shoes, and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky. Cartier's hope is that the steamroller tactics will help encourage governments around the world to take whatever steps are necessary to crush the counterfeiters...
...strong enough to shred apart their lives. The story of the 20th century, on the other hand, concerns the off-hand affair between the two leads, Anna and Mike, during the shooting of the film--a cheap and superficial encounter. The present world is too comfortable, the emotions somehow counterfeit...
...budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that he is in the U.S. legally...
...right to work in the U.S. Though the panel correctly pointed out that a Social Security card - the proof of citizenship most often asked for by prospective employers - is laughably easy to forge, the commission could not agree on whether the new system should consist of a "counterfeit-resistant" Social Security card or a new kind of identification card altogether. Some opponents fear that any sort of ID would be not only a nightmare to administer but, more important, too totalitarian for most Americans to tolerate. Simpson, for one, remains undaunted. Says he: "If there is nothing else...