Word: counterfeiter
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...American coin, here comes another one: the American bill is being illegally reproduced around the globe and in greater quantity than ever. "The U.S. currency," says Secret Service spokesman Carl Meyer, "is not only the most desirable currency in the world. It is also the most easily counterfeited." Of the $350 billion worth of U.S currency in circulation today, anywhere from 50% to 65% is held overseas. In 1980, estimates University of Wisconsin economist Edgar Feige, just 30% of all dollars could be found offshore. No one knows how many fake dollars are traded, but there is no question that...
This concept of peace has been perverted and replaced by a counterfeit definition. While it speaks in the flowery terms of peace, the Nobel Prize committee has forgotten that that signing a peace treaty must involve not only mutual rights, but also mutual responsibilities...
Postal Inspector Michael Kmetz, as quoated in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. Kmetz was referring to a set of counterfeit postage stamps now in circulation bearing likenesses of Fisher and Tonya Harding, among others...
...Louisiana has the highest murder rate among states. Prison, like the police and the courts, has a minimal impact on crime because it is a response after the fact, a mop-up operation. It doesn't work. The idea of punishing the few to deter the many is counterfeit because potential criminals either think they're not going to get caught or they're so emotionally desperate or psychologically distressed that they don't care about the consequences of their actions. The threatened punishment, regardless of its severity, is never a factor in the equation. But society, like the incorrigible...
...shifts for less than $2 an hour, shucking shrimp and cleaning latrines. Then he was fired after two weeks to make room for another illegal who could pony up the $60 employment-agency fee that new arrivals are routinely charged. Now Lin is busy sewing labels and zippers on counterfeit designer jeans in a Brooklyn sweatshop, earning about $800 a month in exchange for a 12-hour day, six days a week...