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...cheaper workers. Following indictments in June involving a painters' union, the Manhattan district attorney's office estimated that an average $15 million-a-year painting contractor saved $3.8 million in costs by paying gangsters. How? The payoff entitled the contractor to use low-wage painters without getting any flak from the mobbed-up union. But in the end, consumers often pay the price. Economists estimate that Cosa Nostra's penetration of industries in New York City alone costs citizens hundreds of millions of dollars annually from inflated prices for everything from fresh fish to new condominiums. The biggest beneficiary...
...message to heavy metal," says Penelope Spheeris, director of a documentary on the music. "It's about being rich and famous and getting laid." Nonetheless, metal has taken heat for a decade, with its electrified invitations to head banging and hell raising. Now other groups are taking the flak. Example: Guns N' Roses, the talented but loutish rockers whose album Appetite for Destruction has sold almost 9 million copies. Their song One in a Million says, "Police and niggers, that's right, get outta my way./ Don't need to buy none of your gold chains today . . ./ Immigrants and faggots...
Conditions seem right for the kind of reassessment Muskie recommends. But would the Bush Administration be willing to risk political flak, particularly from the right, if it seemed to be moving toward normalization with Cambodia, let alone Vietnam? The answer to that question will go a long way toward determining whether the bones will continue piling up in Cambodia's killing fields...
...still vivid. Once again he is 18, back on patrol ten miles northwest of Danang in the company of equally wary, heavily armed grunts of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. His M-16 is loaded for Charlie, and a couple of grenades are within easy reach in his flak jacket. His field pack weighs 40 lbs., and the day is surpassingly hot. The lance corporal his buddies call "Red" is sweating heavily. His squad leader, not much older than McClellan, gives a hand signal, and the patrol moves off the road and down a narrow trail. Just the beginning...
...intransigence. Kroc, as a woman, finds herself even more maligned than other baseball owners in the current players' dispute -- the dugout being one of the last all-masculine bastions, even in San Diego -- and has been seeking to sell the team. As mayor, O'Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that she shuns partisan duties to concentrate on her "populist" appeal that one of them describes as "a mile wide and an inch deep...