Word: illicitly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...follows this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, would not a printing press itself also serve as an illicit aid to reproducing copyrighted material without permission? Why not also ban pens, since they too can be used to copy down protected material? After all, the bulk of student plagiarism from copyrighted material goes via the pen from the text to the note card or legal pad. Imagine this same Kroft arguing in some medieval court that peasants illegally pass on the tales of the traveling minstrel and so demand that some farmer's tongue be removed...
Both the House and Senate agreed to keep strict controls on the export to Communist countries of technology that could have military applications. Customs agents regularly seize illicit shipments of advanced computers and other electronic equipment bound for the Soviet Union. In some respects, the Senate bill is much tougher on the illegal trade than the House version. The Senate voted to give the President authority to ban imports from any foreign company found diverting sensitive American technology to Communist nations...
...sting was part of Operation Exodus, an effort led by the Customs Service to stem the illicit export of defense-related technology. In this case, an undercover agent had posed as a defense-equipment broker and rented a New Jersey office as a front. The defendants, meeting with the agent in his office and unaware that hidden cameras were taping the session, offered to buy 100 transverse-wave-tube amplifiers, which are used in missile guidance systems, for $12,500 each. In addition, the suspects gave the agent a $1 billion shopping list of computers and other advanced electronic equipment...
Since 1978, federal agents have had the legal authority to strike at the lifeblood of organized crime and drug cartels by confiscating property or assets that can be traced to illicit profits. The program has been so successful that it has resulted in an administrative nightmare: the costly storage, maintenance, sale and disposal of the valuable but unwieldy booty. This month that bureaucratic burden was lifted from the DEA and other law-enforcement agencies and placed on the shoulders of the U.S. Marshals Service...
...season. The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a fleabag provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple, a licit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains seven of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon...