Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metaphor from dozens of other movies and books devoted to romanticizing Cosa Nostra, Mario Puzo's The Last Don, a six-hour mini-series (beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking breed...
...inspector general for dragging its feet in pursuing CIA traitor Aldrich Ames, who worked for the Russians in Washington (and under the FBI's and CIA's nose) for nine years before he was finally captured. Such failures tend to crowd out the agency's successes--the imprisonment of Mob boss John Gotti, the conviction of the World Trade Center bombers, the capture of the alleged Unabomber, the solution of the Montana Freemen standoff--and leave morale at an all-time...
...same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone or even Gotti; while agents could penetrate the Italian Mob and recruit informants, it is far more difficult to infiltrate the new Vietnamese, Russian or Pakistani rings, with their distinct dialects and reliance on blood ties...
With tens of thousands of civilians armed to their caps or babushkas, the citizenry had turned into the proverbial mob with many heads but no brains. Hospitals have treated gunshot wounds day and night. Many people retreated from the streets altogether, but a housewife washing dishes in the city of Elbasan was reportedly killed by random gunfire...
...Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer for the Irish mob, hands him a pistol and tells him to make himself scarce. "These guys are psychos. I just don't know how it's gonna play out," says Paddy...