Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue-collar Baltimore, 1963, these guys have Palm Springs tans. They drive Cadillacs that pull into their parking spaces like a Thanksgiving Day parade of metal sharks. Who are they -- the Mob? More like the lost patrol. They are middle-aged men without women, salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support...
...Government, it was a disappointing setback. Gotti's acquittal marked federal prosecutors' first defeat in a vigorous war against the Mob that has put many organized-crime kingpins behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last...
...prosecution, portraying Gotti as boss of the nation's most powerful Mafia family, the Gambino organization, based its racketeering case on the testimony of mob turn-coats...
...lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted to ban Blalock for the way she marked her ball on the green. Bob Toski, her teaching pro at the time, prescribed professional help of a different kind. Publicly he wondered if she wasn't "subconsciously" compelled to win. In the epilogue last year, Toski...
...Club in yet another of its intentionally provocative campus events. In years past, however, the Conservative Club has had the last laugh, succeeding in its goal of goading its ideological opponents into excessive expressions of their opposition to the Club's guests. Two years ago, divestment activists formed a mob outside Lowell House in a misguided attempt to prevent a South African ambassador, who had just addressed the Club, from leaving the campus. And in the past year, overzealous protestors pelted a Nicaraguan contra with eggs and fake blood...