Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cigarette packs and prodding states to set a minimum drinking age of 21. But amid all the frenzy of the adjournment rush, the legislators found time to designate the usual assortment of special months and weeks. National Medical Transcriptionist Week, for example, will start May 21, and Smokey Bear Week will kick off Aug. 5. All that is left now is for this week to become Congress Finally Whimpers to a Close Week...
According to Buscetta, the Mafia structure resembles a pyramid, whose base is composed of cosche, families or clans whose territorial and operational boundaries are strictly defined but whose chiefs bear little resemblance to the almost feudal Mafiosi depicted in The Godfather. In a startling statement, Buscetta disclosed that the capifamiglia, or family bosses, are elected and sometimes even fired by a vote of family members. He asserted that few such men were oldtime "men of honor," the occasionally benevolent criminals who were fully initiated into the codes and rituals of the Mafia. Only 8% to 10%, he said, met these...
Cases such as this, while nominally related to taxes, bear a striking resemblance to the ordeals of Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Joseph Smith, and Mary Baker Eddy, all of whom appeared hardly less alien and threatening to many in the early days of their movements than Reverend Moon appears to many today...
...place of a political campaign while the issues took the back seat. Because of Ferraro's political prominence, the affair cost the Zaccaros personally several hundred thousand dollars and is reported to have had a negative effect on their real estate business. Not surprisingly, businessmen who refuse to bear such scrutiny are being deterred from entering government service. Finding a successful businessman who has never "stretched" a bit on a tax form could keep one busy until the next election...
...oppose apartheid, I strongly believe that universities should not attempt to use their political and economic views on other organizations and individuals beyond the campus. This is essentially what Harvard would be doing by divesting-boycotting the stock of American companies to bring the pressure of this institution to bear against them to have them cease doing business in South Africa...