Word: ids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COFHE questionnaire] asked questions that I don't think anyone has a right to know. They said it was confidential, but at the end the survey asked for my ID number," said Robert J. Toner...
Leape said that the COFHE survey requests students' ID numbers so that the organization will be able to do follow-up studies in five years...
That kind of ID is easily forged by out-of-state buyers. "People come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more...
Nineteen sixty-eight had the vibrations of earthquake about it. America shuddered. History cracked open: bats came flapping out, dark surprises. American culture and politics ventured into dangerous and experimental regions: uplands of new enlightenments, some people thought, and quagmires of the id. The year was pivotal and messy. It produced vivid theater. It reverberates still in the American mind...
...Kids are going to try to get away with whatever they can," he said, citing the discovery last year of a ring of false ID production on campus...