Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ties between Flood and Pennsylvania Rackets Boss Russell Bufalino. The suspected link: the Wilkes-Barre firm of Medico Industries, controlled by President Philip Medico and his brothers. The FBI discovered more than a decade ago that Flood steered Government business to the Medicos and traveled often on their company jet. Investigators say Bufalino frequently visited the Medico offices; agents tape-recorded Bufalino's description of Philip as a capo (chief) in his Mafia family. Elko's testimony has sparked new investigative interest in the Flood-Medico-Bufalino triangle...
...those five principles, the country stands firm and united, even if the price is the breakdown of the peace talks. To outsiders, such a position may seem shortsighted and intransigent. To siege-minded Israelis it comes as second nature, and of all the 3.1 million Jews in Israel, that attitude is best exemplified by Menachem Begin...
...years ago, he was at Boston University, battling the Establishment as an activist sympathizer of the Students for a Democratic Society. Today he wears three-piece suits as a senior associate of a Manhattan-based management consulting firm. "The former radicals are an asset to business," he says. "They are aggressive as hell, they're by and large well educated, they have stamina. Business is a rigorous area in which to channel the same kind of energies we had then. And it's damn satisfying to see the results of your work on a balance sheet...
...Harvard's views to the "real world" of Boston and Cambridge, left the ivory tower this week to join the surrounding community. Moulton ended his 15-year Harvard career, which began when he was deputy director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, to join the Boston real estate firm of Merideth and Grew. President Bok praised Moulton's "heroic service for many years;" Moulton, who frequently took flak from opponents of Harvard's building expansion program, did not discuss his reasons for leaving...
Tyndall is a firm believer in the work ethic, in competition and in production for profit. In terms of social and economic policy, this philosophy translates itself into social irresponsibility and regulated capitalist industry. Tyndall professes a doctrine of social obligation only for the physically incapacitated. For all other victims of structural unemployment or poverty, Tyndall allows only "the stiff breeze of compulsion to work, and hardship if they...