Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever his purpose, Buscetta has apparently been forthcoming. In a series of conversations lasting through the summer and covering 3,000 pages, he offered a history of the Sicilian Mafia's operations going back, in some cases, to 1950. He volunteered details that authorities had long suspected but never been able to prove. Not since Joseph Valachi, a soldier in New York's Lucky Luciano family, spilled what he knew to a U.S. Senate committee in 1963 has anyone provided such a comprehensive picture of the Mafia and its operations. Said Judge Schiacchitano: "Buscetta has offered confirmation...
...convictions have not crippled the Mafia, which, as both the 1981 fatal bombing of Philadelphia Mobster Philip Testa and the recent indictments of New York mobsters for conspiracy in connection with Suffolk County garbage collections attest, is amply active. The President's Commission on Organized Crime, established last summer, estimates that the Mafia takes in up to $168 billion a year in the U.S., or more than the gross domestic products of Greece and Austria combined. Says FBI Director Webster: "There are few businesses or industries in our communities that are not affected by organized-criminal enterprises. This brand...
...section plans a take-off on this summer's movie big-seller "Ghostbusters" called "Casebusters," which will play on the case-study method B-School students use in the classroom...
...theatrical company selected Lazarus from a field of more than 140 people because of her energetic approach and considerable summer stock, off-Broadway and Broadway credits, according to Keshishian...
Palandjian credited his success to extensive summer practice, weight loss and the coaching at Harvard. He contrasted the coaching at other schools with coaching here where "most of the coaches work with the number-15 player as much as they work with the number-one player...