Word: counterfeit
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...interference by foreign powers - usually turns a blind eye to much of the drug cultivation and weapons smuggling that goes on there. But this time, the Lebanese army hit back. This week it launched a sweep through the Bekaa that netted some 69 prisoners, and large caches of weapons, counterfeit money and drug production equipment...
...rivers, he would find what others had missed. At stake was not just a material fortune but an intellectual victory. Conventional wisdom said that despite all its lush abundance, the Amazon region could never support an evolved, sophisticated human society--it was, in the phrase of one archaeologist, a "counterfeit paradise." Fawcett believed otherwise...
...come. Grann doesn't find Fawcett, but he does meet an American archaeologist who lives, Kurtz-like, with a tribe of Indians deep in the jungle. His work suggests that Z may actually have been more than a figment, and that once upon a time the counterfeit paradise was a real one. Fawcett may have been right after all. But he was too late for that...
Personally, I think counterfeit products are good because their existence shows that we create something people want to copy. Professionally, it causes big problems because it creates products with your name on them that are not controlled...
...Everybody had heard a different rumor: the section was full and even ticket-holders would no longer be admitted; the metal detectors had malfunctioned and each person was being screened by hand; someone had gone into cardiac arrest; all previous entrants had been re-checked once a series of counterfeit tickets were discovered. The only certainty in the throng lay in the fact that the ceremony could not be delayed, postponed, or rerun. It had to happen exactly at twelve noon. Always on time. By the constitution.Josh and Amy abandoned the quest and elected to go watch the ceremony...