Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Private contributions to congressional campaigns may not exceed $1000. Gallagher and fellow candidate Carla Johnston have said they will not accept funds from organizations representing corporate interests...
...Every person in Queens between the ages of 14 and 36 gets out of the shower and turns on a blow-dryer. This places an enormous strain on the power reserves of the system." The author likes to convey the impression that he is a serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross of reality into art. As he says of himself in a postscript to What the Dog Did, "Any experience that happens, it doesn't just have to be a good experience, and--BAM--Ian Frazier will convert it to writing of some kind...
...within 24 hours moved his papers to Wapping. He persuaded virtually all of his 700 journalists to join him by offering them free private medical insurance and raises of $2,800 a year. He hired a trucking firm to deliver the papers. When the strikers tried to discourage fellow union members from distributing the papers, the courts fined them a total of $70,000 and seized the assets of Dean's group. News International officials claim that 90% of the papers' usual press run is being met, though union leaders contend the figure is closer to 50%. "I feel like...
...precise dimensions of the military reform movement are unknown. That is largely because most members have campaigned secretly, some out of concern for their safety, others in the belief that their anonymity forces fellow soldiers to be cautious about open corruption...
Then came 1980. Hill received a valuable piece of information that year: some of his fellow "wiseguys," as New York hoodlums call themselves, were plotting to kill him. He had been arrested on a drug charge, and his Lufthansa-heist partners were afraid he might talk to the feds. Their fears were well-founded; the following year Hill's testimony resulted in a string of convictions. The canary later sang to Nicholas Pileggi, a veteran journalist, in various secret locations around the U.S. The result, told largely in Hill's words, has the sound and horror of authenticity, The Godfather...