Word: brotherhood
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...seems improbable that a brotherhood as violent as the Mafia is becoming still more savage. It also seems unlikely that teams of professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. automatic pistols are roaming the land, with at least 20 "executions" to their credit in the past two years. Finally, it seems unthinkable that the case of the .22 hits could be a direct challenge by the Mob to the U.S. Government...
...officials will announce a plan forcing all Teamster members off the fund's board of trustees. In this climate. Teamsters leaders may well have thought that by giving in to Chavez, still a liberal hero, they could for once appear to be on the side of peace and brotherhood...
Brotherly Pleas. Salem claimed that Communists were responsible for the riots, but that seemed only partly right. More probably, many instigators came from the archconservative Moslem Brotherhood, which has long opposed Sadat's moderate regime...
SINCE CONSTRUCTION began in 1973, 22,000 people have worked on the pipeline. Of the numerous unions which are involved in the project, the two most powerful are the United Brotherhood of Teamsters and Local 798 of the Pipeliner's Union. In the pipeline collective bargaining agreements, the unions obtained the high wages and liberal fringe benefits in return for a no-strike clause which they conceded to the oil companies. The unions got this large quid pro quo because companies face a short construction season due to Alaska's severe winters and cannot afford a temporary cessation of construction...
...most exclusive lodge in American professional athletics is the brotherhood of championship quarterbacks. Its circle is limited, and members tend to be intolerant, even contemptuous, of nonmembers, no matter what their claims to greatness. Bobby Layne, the roistering old Lion, quarterbacked teams that won championships in the N.F.L. He belongs. So do Bart Starr, who won five, Johnny Unitas, Norm Van Brocklin and Joe Namath. Francis Asbury Tarkenton, 36, is not a member. Though he has won three conference championship games, Tarkenton...