Word: illicits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
...which I mean sex between people who are often wrinkled and overweight and sometimes even fond of each other. The health meanies could relax and acknowledge that one of the most marvelous functions of the body is, in fact, to absorb small doses of whipped cream and other illicit substances...
...afloat since taking it over last year and has dismissed hundreds of the Pakistani bankers who ran B.C.C.I. in its heyday. Abu Dhabi, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are struggling to come up with a workable restructuring plan that will satisfy regulators amid continuing disclosures of illicit banking activity...
...dimensions of the tragedy are staggering. According to the National Association for Perinatal Addiction Research and Education (NAPARE), about 1 out of every 10 newborns in the U.S. -- 375,000 a year -- is exposed in the womb to one or more illicit drugs. The most frequent ingredient in the mix is cocaine. In major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington many hospitals report that the percentage of newborns showing the effects of drugs is 20% or even higher...
...stock exchange even shadier and plotting to plant operatives in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export-Import Bank of the U.S. The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on which countries are going to be denied credit so that Scientology-linked traders can make illicit profits by taking "short" positions in those countries' currencies...