Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary nocturnal sentry duty by Galante's bodyguards demonstrates both the Mafia's remarkable influence inside U.S. prisons and the fact that there is no rest for a mobster who strives to become godfather and fails. Sooner or later a rival will try to put him out of the running, permanently...
...learned that killers from two families were trying to get him: triggermen who worked for Dellacroce and others who belonged to the Colombo family, a clan that after a decade of internal struggle is trying to regain other mobsters' regard-and Dellacroce's thanks-by eliminating his rival. Knowing how easily he could be assassinated in prison, Galante arranged to have his bodyguards take up their nighttime baby-sitting beside his cell...
When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
...crews to arbitration. Those cuts are expected to save the News and Times each about $4 million a year, the Post about $2 million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost the papers as much as $150 million in advertising and circulation revenues...
...rival Sun hastened to keep, um, abreast. The day before the Star appeared, the Sun spread) its usual page 3 lovely across a centerfold and promised more to come. Next day the Sun put an unclad cupcake on page 1 (MY LOVE FOR SEX-CHANGE SAILOR, BY NUDE ROSIE) and, on the accustomed page 3, displayed not one but two topless twinkies...