Word: avellino
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...school graduates. I do not think that less used words should be deterged from the vocabulary of any spoken language. I think that we have to teach them and use them more. The use of complex words improves thought as well as our philosophical and mental universe. Marika Borrelli, AVELLINO, ITALY...
...four months the bug transmitted intimate Mob conversations between the Lucchese boss and his driver, Salvatore Avellino, to agents trailing discreetly in various "chase cars," which rebroadcast the signals to a recording van. "It was the most significant information regarding the structure and function of the Commission that has ever been obtained from electronic surveillance," declared Ronald Goldstock, chief of the Organized Crime Task Force. After building his own case against the Lucchese family for a local carting-industry racket, Goldstock alerted Giuliani to the broader implications of using the evidence to attack the Mob's controlling Commission...
...Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander of the relief forces in Avellino, one of the hardest-hit provinces, ventured that the dead might number 10,000 or more before the last of the debris was cleared...
Worst hit were the provinces of Naples, Salerno, Potenza and Avellino. Government officials said yesterday ancient buildings suffered the most damage...
Bergman added that he was "very worried" about the fate of the severely damaged Nola region, located between Naples and Avellino, which contains frescoes dating from the fourth to 13th centuries...