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Police recently arrested a 21-year-old Boston man for making counterfeit licenses and selling them for up to $60 apiece. He pleaded no contest in Brookline District Court...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: State Changes Licences to Thwart Fakes | 7/18/1986 | See Source »

...Bach, which reveals that markings on the pages of the Bible owned by Bach were made by the great composer. And in Washington, the journal Analytical Chemistry was reviewing for publication a report suggesting that the Vinland map, a purportedly pre-Columbian world map once denounced as a counterfeit, may not be fraudulent after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beaming in on the Past | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...conventional retailers, the gray market thrives by selling brand-name cameras, consumer electronics, personal computers, cars and even excavators without the imprimatur of a manufacturer's authorized distributor. The products do not have either the standard warranty or the higher markup. Unlike black-market trafficking in stolen or counterfeit goods, gray-market trade is perfectly legal and has even been encouraged by the Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Gray Market | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...amount of credit a consumer has left to any medicines to which he might be allergic. By using special machines that read the smart cards, sales clerks can approve credit purchases instantly, without having to phone a central headquarters for authorization. In addition, the cards are almost impossible to counterfeit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit: A Card with Smarts | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

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