Word: counterfeiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...egos, or more likely their job prospects, is growing. The FBI estimates that there are at least 100 diploma mills in the U.S. selling 10,000 to 15,000 phony sheepskins a year. No cracking of books or taking of stiff exams is required. In fact, most of these counterfeit colleges demand little more than a fee for a degree (usually a few hundred dollars for a B.A. and up to $5,000 for a Ph.D.). They advertise their wares in the classified-ad sections of magazines with alluring lines like, "Get the degree you need without ever leaving home...
...girl shut the door on Michael Jackson. The Melrose Avenue counterfeit is Eric Evans, 17, who is fleshing out a fantasy and slapping down $550 for a red leather jacket that duplicates the one Jackson wore in Thriller. The jacket that Eric is already wearing is exactly like Jackson's in Beat It. It is a fairly innocent dream, really. Eric only wants to look like the biggest star in the world...
...first practical models. They were ungainly machines, bristling with plugs and wires that looked more at home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument's possibilities. Carlos, however, had to synthesize each phrase individually and put the whole thing together on tape, a laborious, time-consuming process. By contrast, today's advanced digital synthesizers, such as the Synclavier and the Fairlight (typical cost...
Rampant misuse and counterfeiting has prompted officials to clamp down on Quaalude. Nine states have banned its sale, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has required Lemmon to cut production from 58 million tablets in 1978 to 7.5 million this year. The Government has also gone after counterfeit Quaalude, which is smuggled into the U.S. in amounts estimated at up to a billion tablets a year. As a result of last week's announcement, the street-corner price of 'ludes doubled to as much as $10 a tablet, in contrast with about 70? in a drugstore...
...known as contras (counterrevolutionaries), whose hit-and-run attacks along Nicaragua's northern and southern borders have, according to the Sandinistas, claimed more than 700 lives. President Reagan has justified U.S. support for the contras by accusing the Sandinistas of having "betrayed" their countrymen, calling the junta members "counterfeit revolutionaries who wear fatigues and drive around in Mercedes sedans...