Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beyond the scope of this reviewer's expertise to adjudicate the accuracy of events as related by the title figure to author Peter Maas in Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (HarperCollins; 308 pages; $25). Like most people when you get right down to it, our protagonist--the most famous snitch in Mob history, the man whose testimony helped put "Teflon Don" John Gotti behind bars for good--sees himself as a voice of reason in a world of blowhards and sociopaths. A contract on his brother-in-law, which Gravano himself doesn...
...their advantage, TIME's Patrick Cole reports that her appearance chiefly benefited the prosecution. A calm, collected Ms. McVeigh told jurors Tuesday that she received a letter from her brother Tim a few weeks before the explosion promising "something big is going to happen in the month of the bull," an apparent astrological reference to April. Never asking what that something was, she followed her brother's instructions and burned the letter. The 23-year-old college student also recalled a file labeled ATFREAD that her brother had left on her computer. It said government agents would "swing...
...stock performance. It seems to have worked like a charm. Corporate profits are at a record high, a task that is, after all, the CEO's job. Those lush profits have helped the stock market soar, as anyone with a mutual fund plainly knows. And it is that bull market that has turned millions upon millions of stock options into pure CEO gold, in cartloads unforeseen by anyone...
Will readers tire of this fad after thumbing through the 11th book on anorexia and the seventh expose of transsexual aunts? Publishers, for the moment, are betting on a continuing bull market. There are some 267 million stories in the naked U.S., all of them yearning to be told and sold...
...have every right, according to the Supreme Court, to believe that you will one day be an angel, a bull in Wyoming or the captain of the Starship Hale-Bopp. In 1944 the court ruled that the free exercise of religion "embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths." By that definition, just about anything goes. In the Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton lists more than 2,100 religions. Herewith, a few of the more unorthodox ones--all of which...