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ATTENTION BUYERS! Brand-new shipment just in. Unusual opportunity. Our best consignment ever. $20 million worth of choice Florida properties: sun-coast condos, apartment complexes and, the jewel of the lot, a one-of-a-kind Thoroughbred- and show-horse ranch with 14 rare Paso Finos, prized for their steady ride and high-stepping gait. All offerings are in good shape, previously owned by suspected drug kingpins. (They buy the best.) A steal. Remember our motto at Uncle Sam's: We seize from the sleaze. Their loss is America's gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Filling Uncle Sam's Auction House | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...producing an extremely light and durable fiber, carbon-carbon, used to improve the accuracy of intercontinental ballistic missiles. When the U.S. learned of the case, officials rushed to halt the deal. Though most of the order had already been filled, U.S. authorities prevailed on the British government to stop shipment of the vital heating elements that the Soviets would need to operate at least some of the equipment properly. When informed of the fiasco, the Thatcher government ordered the heating elements destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Technobandits | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...these apparently eclectic tastes in reading do not belong to Lum, the library system's East Asian expert. Pointing to shelves which contain a couple hundred uncatalogued books, he explains that a new shipment of Indian books came in from Washington this Tuesday...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Widener's Indian Books: They Come by the Crate | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...When push came to shove," and CQ refused tofill the text orders this fall, the Coop finallyagreed to pay the bill and CQ sent them the order,Rozakis said. Although the course assistant saidCoop employees told him the shipment had arrived,the books had not reached the shelves as ofclosing time yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Blunder Postpones Arrival of Gov. Textbooks | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...secret shipments, Toshiba Machine disguised eight sophisticated milling machines as simple hole-boring devices and rechristened them with misleading jargon (in one case, from a model MBP 110 to a TDP 70/110) to fool MITI inspectors. When Toshiba had brought Soviet officials to its plant to see the machines work, engineers demonstrated only the simple functions during normal working hours, then later showed off the equipment's true capacity when the plant was deserted, the report claims. The secrecy extended even to accounting: Toshiba Machine allegedly split the proceeds from one shipment into two semiannual periods to avoid drawing attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware Of Machines in Disguise | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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