Word: vow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month the on holy alliance began to crumble. Breaking their vow of silence, the Sicilian Bishops' Conference issued a declaration of excommunication on those who cooperate in the Mafia's criminal activities. Cardinal Pappalardo, one of the most vocal Sicilian church leaders, called for the end of the "hatred, vendettas, abductions and homicides," the work of "some individuals or criminal groups," as he called them...
...vow to work more closely with the rank and file was inspired in part by an employee meeting last Tuesday at which Phillip Voight. Yale University's chief steward, out lined the negotiating strategy that he said helped Yale food service workers win numerous wage and benefit concessions...
...deeply entrenched Mafia. The new high commissioner is empowered to tap telephones of suspected gangsters and to look into bank records to trace transfers of capital. Another new statute allows interrogation of witnesses behind closed doors, a provision calculated to break Sicily's code of omertà, a vow of silence by those who have witnessed crimes...
...Coop management for now has seemingly beaten back an attempt to get organized labor into the Coop. But union officials vow to continue the flight in behind-the-scenes ways, and they hope to one day get an election they...
...President has a choice: end registration and call off the futile hunt for non-complaints, or continue along a path destined to end in confusion, inequity and resentment. It's too bad he didn't follow up on his own vow and kill the problem cleanly as soon as he took office...