Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan is the winner next week, those deficits are going to be just as big and bad as they ever were. If Walter Mondale comes out on top, he may find that the Soviets aren't as eager for a summit as he is-or that Soviet Boss Konstantin Chernenko has checked into a Moscow hospital...
...testified through voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders...
...first they called it Operation Star Quest. But when a federal grand jury last week indicted alleged Mob Boss Carmine ("the Snake") Persico, 51, and ten other members of the Colombo clan, one of New York's five major Mafia families, federal agents triumphantly renamed their probe Star Struck. Those involved were said to control seven union locals in New York City's restaurant, trucking and construction businesses, extorting large payments from restaurateurs and contractors...
...says with pride. "I am taking a course in lighting, I can look at a flat design and know if it will come into 3-D. My singers know they will be well lit and not forced to wear unbecoming costumes. The backstage crew calls me boss. Beverly Sills superstar is gone...
...ANGELES--A bid by organized crime members to take over $1 million weekly bookmaking operations here was cut short yesterday with the arrests of 20 people, including the reputed crime boss of Southern California, police said...