Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to snip the budding fake identification industry, the state Registry of Motor Vehicles plans to add extra safeguards designed to prevent those under 21 years old from using altered licenses to buy liquor...
Cambridge liquor store owners welcomed the change. "It's going to be easier to identify fakes right away," said Gary Locke, the manager of the Harvard Provision Company. Locke said his store "is very tough" on fake identification cards and can recognize most fakes...
...many fake i.d.'s are confiscated by bar and liquor store owners. Employees receive a $100 bounty for each fake license they bring to police, Locke said...
...December. The look at Ba-Ba-Reeba! is lively and typical. The room is a jam- packed maze of tables, counters and bars, with all the tapas symbols in place: hanging hams and sausages, ropes of garlic and peppers, and sides of dried salt codfish. Noise, music, tiles and fake Spanish paintings (a not- quite- Picasso Guernica here, a playful pseudo-Miro there) attract yuppies of all ages, who begin to line up at 6:30 every evening. Among the more delectable possibilities: red beans with snails, a layered potato omelet, white beans with clams, and deep-fried eggs. Usually...
...tracks and traces and printed in the current issue of the journal Creation/Evolution, the Paluxy tracks have been known to local folk since being uncovered by a 1908 flash flood. The world learned of them in the 1930s, when residents set up roadside stands to sell both real and fake samples of the footprints. When paleontologists went to investigate the source, they saw dinosaur tracks but found the man tracks too indistinct to identify...