Word: counterfeits
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...Percentage of counterfeit goods seized at U.S. borders that come from China...
...Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that con men would not try to fool him with a counterfeit version, he even memorized the pattern of wax droplets left on the work when Munch blew out a candle one night...
...business should be foolish enough to believe this hypothesis. In a country where government-controlled companies comprise the industrial base, piracy is not derived from commercial callowness?it appears to be official policy. Authorities may be quite willing to mop up small, unregulated businesses to curtail street sales of counterfeit brands, but protecting core foreign technology is another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign...
...Leung plays Lam, a master burglar out to nick a pair of ultra-valuable currency-printing plates, which, if they fell into the wrong hands, would allow criminal forces to flood the U.S. market with counterfeit bills. That's why both Korean mobsters and "Arab dissenters," in the curious words of Leung's character, are desperate to get their own hands on the goods. (Maybe they've invested heavily in the euro.) Leung nabs them, but on his way to claim his reward from a grateful U.S. government, he's waylaid and re-robbed by rival thief Owen Lee (Richie...
...Fake Watch Brand-name cigarettes are hazardous enough, but illicit counterfeits are even worse for your health. According to a University of St. Andrews' study in December, counterfeits contain up to five times more carcinogens such as cadmium and arsenic. One hundred million counterfeit cigarettes are made in China each year (about 85% of the world's total), according to the country's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which is now trying to snuff out the fakes. Last week, officials in Henan, China's second largest tobacco-growing province, torched $360,000 worth of contraband cigarettes...