Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign to cleanse public language of slander, denigration and defamation. It has obviously reduced the use of contemptuous epithets, but it has also unnecessarily inflamed some tender sensibilities. Take the heartfelt claim that all Italians, and not merely an outlaw underground, tend to be stigmatized by the word Mafia. Should the question be: Can this term unintentionally offend someone? Or should not the questions be: Is there an organized underworld? Is it actually called the Mafia? If so, to call it something else is to lose touch with reality...
...destroyed California's illusion of invincibility. Weaned on the high-test economy of the '60s, the state sputtered and wheezed as it geared down to the era of limits. It seemed to have more than its share of problems. Compton's street gangs and the Mexican mafia of East Los Angeles were just as bad as their counterparts back East. Men committed to zero defects and preoccupied with cosmic realities began to wonder if air you could taste was fit to breathe. California was distinctive no longer. The state that waltzed through the '60s now faced...
...Abdul Aziz al Saud in 1975, and the older men, mostly royal princes, who run many of the ministries. But the men who breathe life into the policy are a lively, hard-driving group of young technocrats whose attitudes are shaping the country. They are known as the "American Mafia," because they were educated in the U.S. The best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than 3,000 princes), Yamani is a superb technocrat who combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the world oil industry...
Other American Mafia members...
...road that traverses swamps, rain forests, mountains and deserts. Unlike Clouzot, Friedkin gives us extensive biographies on three of them-an Arab terrorist, a French banker who has been caught in fraud, a small-time hoodlum who has made the mistake of robbing the parish church of a Mafia boss (during which his brother, a priest, was wounded...