Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Scoops to Nuts closed its doors, it was not alone. Corcoran's fabric and clothing store also recently gave up its space to the expanding Urban Outfitters store...
Karl Spilhaus shops with a mission. His busy hands rake through the winter- coat racks, expertly fingering the fabric as he examines the labels and checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
...wave of counterfeiting is a natural consequence of the surging demand for cashmere, which has become the fabric of choice for affluent baby boomers willing to pay for the best. No longer limiting the cloth to coats, sweaters and scarves, designers have come out with cashmere tunics, miniskirts, camisoles and even sweat suits. Ralph Lauren can barely keep his cabled cashmere sweater for men in stock at $625, while Donna Karan's cashmere & bodysuit ($500 to $800) overwhelmingly outsells her less expensive merino-wool outfit...
...repercussions so brutal. The primary reason is crack, the cheap and highly powerful cocaine derivative. The booming crack business has led to unprecedented violence by dealers fighting for their share of the market. Widespread addiction to the drug has helped further shred what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The mean streets of the inner city form the bloody battlegrounds where the war on drugs is being lost. Last week correspondents visited the front lines in three major U.S. cities: Detroit, Miami and Washington...
...start with the fact that it has been decided. I strongly suspect he would never have voted for it in the first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even if it is not reversed, however, Roe could be modified. Like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy could end up as a swing vote, helping to refine the boundaries of the right to abortion, based on changing medical and social circumstances...