Word: illicitness
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...illegal insider trading. Those convicted in civil cases now receive wrist-slap sanctions that merely bar them from further misuse of information and make them relinquish their profits. A House-passed version of the SEC measure would impose fines of up to three times the gains made from illicit transactions...
...three-part mini-series on HBO is a sumptuous package tour of 19th century India under the British Raj. The lush, romantic travelogue leisurely wanders the flowery landscape of Victorian fiction, where swashbuckling heroes die happily for Mother England, wasp-waisted ladies in corsets palpitate at the prospect of illicit love, fawning natives in turbans plot palace intrigue, and florid, harrumphing senior officers shoulder the white man's burden. The production, based on M.M. Kaye's 1978 bestseller, represents pay cable's first real venture in "long-form" television. Filmed on location in India at a cost...
...reporter, R. Foster Winans, 35, one of the column's two principal writers, admitted the leaks to the Securities and Exchange Commission through an attorney, according to the article. The SEC has been investigating evidence that a group of traders made illicit profits after receiving the information from Winans, who was fired last week...
...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...