Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conspicuously missing from the debate is the central role of the Mafia in spreading the epidemic. Even the heavy blows dealt the Mob in the so-called Pizza Connection trials in the U.S. in 1987 and the mass trial and subsequent imprisonment of more than 300 Mafiosi in Sicily proved to be only temporary victories. Palermo's special investigating magistrates are trying, with little evident success, to untangle the intimate ties between the Sicilian Mob and politicians in the South. Like many legitimate businesses, the Mafia has gone global and uses sophisticated financial strategies to launder drug profits...
...Faber's trip, the riders stopped at a pizza place and asked for and received 8 pizzas. "Almost every time we asked for food, they would say `sure,'" she says...
...really didn't want to hang out in the R&I Pizza Place. "Are there any bars in town I could...
Such is the sour legacy of 1988, an election year that was to substance what cold pizza is to a balanced breakfast. Think of the words and phrases that 18 months of nonstop electioneering have underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm...
...proposed student center would, at the minimum, house the offices of student groups and a dining hall for freshman to replace the Union. Others have suggested that the University go further and provide a cafeteria, some pinball machines, a pub with a band, a pizza parlor and, well, you get the idea...