Word: brill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEVE BRILL were the type who sings in the shower, he would never have written a book which accomplishes the remarkable: pissing off both Frank Fitzsimmons, boss of the Teamsters Union, and Pete Camerata, leading light of the dissident group, Teamsters for a Democratic Union...
...Mother/My Self, Friday (9) 10. The Teamsters, Brill...
...Daniel Brill, chief economist at the Treasury Department, was startled when his son phoned to say that he had lined up financing for his first house, which is in the Boston area. The cost: 9.75% mortgage interest-plus 2.5 points (a one-time finance charge). Admits Brill: "I gulped. I remember bitching when I had to give up my 4% G.I. mortgage...
...economy. Earlier this year, the Administration privately forecast about 1.8 million "starts" in 1978. So far, construction is not only hovering above 2 million houses and apartments a year, but it is defying the long established principle that housing is always hit hardest when interest rates climb. Says Brill: "The old rules no longer hold. Housing is no longer the first area of the economy to boom or the first to bust...
...problem is the suspects' fear of being permanently silenced by the Mob. Brill describes O'Brien as living in such terror of Tony Pro that he hid under a bed for two days at the Teamsters' Las Vegas convention in 1976. Last March Salvatore Briguglio was shot to death outside a restaurant in New York's Little Italy to keep him from talking to the FBI about the Hoffa case. Agents promptly tried to convince the other suspects that they had a better chance to survive as protected Government witnesses than on the loose...