Word: fighting
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...exaggeration to call the battle of governments against the international drug trade a war. Consider the elements: airplanes, ships, guns, vast sums of money, raids on enemy territories. In the past few years, the U.S. has fortified its resources and strengthened ties with its allies in the global fight against narcotics dealers. For a while it seemed the forces of law were winning. But it now seems that the U.S. is facing an enemy more powerful and elusive than previously thought. November brought troubling incidents in Mexico, Colombia and Peru, three major fronts of the drug...
...present woes are temporary. Says Jack Whittle, chairman of the financial consulting firm Whittle & Hanks: "Banking is going into the free-enterprise system out of a protected environment, and that is bound to shake up a whole lot of things." The optimists believe that the financial industry will fight its way out of today's morass and become stronger than ever...
Puzo works hard to make his story back-lot mythic. Spartacus led his slave army out of the Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted...
Guiliano dreams of smashing the power of the "Friends of the Friends." Sicilians, Puzo tells us, never say Mafia, a 10th century Arabic term meaning sanctuary. A thousand years later, the word is dark with irony. Founded to fight foreign oppressors, the organization has come to include the island's most terrible despots. Their fingers can be found in every business and social institution from Palermo to Catania, their hands behind countless murders. Puzo offers swatches of sad history and exotic sociology. Mussolini nearly wiped out the Mafia, but the U.S. Army ensured its comeback when it unlocked Fascist...
Outlining an agenda for the justice department during President Reagan's second term, the foundation says, "The fight against comparable worth must become a top priority for the next administration...