Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the animosity that filled the Yard Sunday night, freshmen said that the mob scene only added to class spirit. Students said that dorm rivalries bond entryways, and that the battle of obscenities was just a "good study break...
...muskrat, dancing at Regine's, whither he had ventured from the George V, where he had a suite that he used as an office to organize a dinner at Versailles for 300 Cajuns, to make reservations at the Lido and the Crazy Horse, and to book the whole mob on planes and buses for a gambling sortie to Monte Carlo (he could have been doing all this at once; it is hard to say with Sam). When we caught up with him again this summer, he was on a train bound for glory, he hoped, rushing a gubernatorial candidate through...
Because Japan's network of dealers is not nearly so large or aggressive as the mob of smart hucksters selling paintings in New York City and London, only a handful of painters manage to make a living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be painters manque, but talented art directors and designers are more indulged and permitted more expressive leeway in Japan than in most other countries. Much of their work, even for big corporations, is highly unorthodox. At train stations in Tokyo last year, commuters could not avoid a meditation on androgyny...
After winning more than 30 convictions of top mobsters in the past year, federal prosecutors unveiled a new tactic last week: suing the Mafia for damages. In a unique use of federal racketeering laws, U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Maloney asked a federal judge to seize Mob-tied businesses in an attempt to break up the Bonanno crime organization, one of New York's five Mafia families. Among the alleged fronts: three hotels and a taxi company, which officials say were bought with money from the family's gambling, loan-sharking and drug networks. It was the first time a Mafia...
Once the Mafia's top West Coast enforcer, Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno became one of the Government's most valuable informers in 1977. Since then, he has testified at numerous trials and written two books on the Mob. The Justice Department placed him under the Witness Protection Program, and has spent $1 million protecting Fratianno and moving him to a secret location with a new identity...