Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tends to sit on both sides of the fence"). A hard- liner at heart, Hall blasts both men for leading the Soviet Union down the capitalist road. Once capitalism's failures emerge, he predicts, the Soviets will scurry back to socialism. No wonder critics have dubbed him the "Norman Vincent Peale of the left...
...well as first-years, moved into their rooms on Friday. At top-left, Ming Yo Tsai '93 of Eliot House, brings a full-length mirror into the new DeWolfe St. dorm. At top-right, Lawrence E. Tanz '92, a senior, carries his sofa into Lowell House. At bottom-left, Vincent P. Fiorino '95 signs in, while Sean C. Casey '95 finds his room key to the Yard...
...Vincent Arthur Hall was a polite, mild-mannered disability analyst at the New York State social-services department. Away from the office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked...
...payoffs to the Mob in exchange for being allowed to cheat employees out of as much as $70 million in lost wages and benefits. Cirino Salerno made weekly deliveries of cash skimmed from the local to his brother's East Harlem headquarters, according to a former top Genovese soldier, Vincent (Fish) Cafaro. In a 1987 affidavit, Cafaro, now a government witness, claimed that "Speed" had the garage industry "locked up through 'sweetheart contracts' with the owners . . . If someone buys or builds a garage or parking lot in New York City, you will get a visit from 'Speed...
...hard to argue that this serves the public any worse than screaming newspaper headlines, or TV reporters describing events from the courthouse steps. "It is a sorry state of affairs that today most of us learn about judicial proceedings from lawyers' sound bites and artists' sketches," says Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University. "Televised proceedings ought to dispel some of the myth and mystery that shroud our legal system...