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In America, this led to Prohibition, with its accompanying crime and bootlegging.
For example, technical staff are encouraged to spend 15% of their time "bootlegging"—working on pet ideas that they hope will one day become new products for the company.
A year later the family is "smuggled" across the border by bootlegging associates of Bellow's father and settle in Chicago, where relations run a baking business.
Its aim, among other things, is to address the problem of bootlegging.
Researchers at 3M, for instance, are allowed to spend 15% of their time "bootlegging"—working on pet projects.
He also became a media figure and famously said, "When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging.
In the late 1920s, he branched out from gambling and bootlegging into narcotics.
The career of Al Capone was a dramatic instance of the development of bootlegging on a large scale.
After a stint in prison, Torrio retired to Italy, and Capone became crime czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by gunning down rivals and rival gangs.
In addition, he penned the screenplays for The Proposition, which earned him a special prize from the 2006 Venice Film Festival, and Lawless (2012), a Prohibition-era drama about bootlegging.
