Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...key defendant on this charge is Ralph Scopo, 57, a soldier in the Colombo family, and just as importantly, the president of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council before he was indicted. Scopo is accused of accepting many of the payoffs from the participating concrete firms. Scopo's lawyer admits the union leader took payoffs, but he and the other attorneys deny it was part of a broader extortion scheme. Since the Mafia leaders own some of the construction companies, said Dawson, the Government was claiming "that these men extort themselves...
...word, Harvard's quarterbacking spot--the key position in Crimson Coach Joe Restic's Multiflex offense--was green...
...almost naughty syndrome," Mark advised, is another way of getting kids to laugh. "Certain key words sound naughty to kids. Underwear. Kids think it is really funny. Or the puppet could say, 'Kissywooooooooo.' Anything with kiss in it. They're starting to think about boy-girl things." Mark went on to talk about mapping and diagramming jokes and planning ad libs until it was time for Jeff Dunham to speak. Jeff talked about comedy writing, and he said $ soundly that if you could create a joke a day pretty soon you would have a routine, much as it is said...
...ferocious." Yet the bear can also show a more agreeable side: on Saturday the Soviets announced they were allowing five well-known dissidents to emigrate, a positive gesture on the eve of the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting. Initially, the Administration tried to play the whole affair in a very low key, saying little while trying to engage Moscow in quiet negotiations. The President said nothing openly until last Monday, when he warned that continued imprisonment of the reporter could seriously damage U.S.-Soviet relations. Four days earlier Reagan, relying as always on his powers of persuasion, had sent Gorbachev a personal...
While these incidents varied greatly in nature and scope, they had key features in common: first, the Kremlin's concern with security takes precedence over propaganda and diplomacy alike; second, when the Soviet Union reacts to a perceived threat to its security, it tends to overreact, sometimes brutally; third, if the Soviets' overreaction leads to a crisis, they are quick to blame the U.S.; and fourth, the disruption has always proved temporary...