Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with it, one cannot accept the hateful and malicious attacks on an entire region of the country. Too often Southerners are painted as ignorant, backward "goons" who must be guided and taught by their sophisticated, progressive Northern compatriots. Left to itself, the South would revert to a mob of tobaccy-chewin', black-lynchin', shotgun-carrying' rednecks. This patronizing attitude does nothing but further convince Southerners that we actually might be better off alone...
...hours earlier, another Palestinian suicide bomber had blown himself up, this time in downtown Tel Aviv amid a crowd of schoolchildren, killing 13 people. After the fourth such atrocity in little more than a week, even the most liberal leaders within the Israeli government sought vengeance. With a mob outside screaming for blood, ministers advocated sending Israeli troops to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. Others prescribed mass deportations of Palestinians. One even urged razing the villages from which the bombers came...
...have been under the illusion that she was the referee, but she was effectively out of the ring years ago. Also, since much of the fighting is carried on between each principal's pack of friends--packs well matched for loathsomeness--it can sometimes spin into the sort of mob frenzy so prized by Dirty Soccer devotees...
...Taiwan -- specifically the stock markets and foreign exchange -- and make people blame President Lee Teng-hui," FlorCruz says. "China is serving a warning to Taiwan that it better change its direction or otherwise it will have no peace of mind." The tests are scheduled to end on Friday.Top Detroit Mob Leaders Arrested
...organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit, we believe we've driven...