Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infamous Mafia code of omerta, or silence, has been taking a beating lately. Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, a witness against Gambino crime boss John Gotti in a New York City courtroom, is only the latest mobster to testify on the misdeeds of his cronies in exchange for lenient treatment. Last week Mafia gunmen appeared to send a brutal message to all would-be squealers by shooting and gravely wounding the sister of federal informer Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo...
Currently, if students make more than $100 worth of Personal Access Code (PAC) calls in one month, their PAC is deactivated...
...there are other problems. The current tax code, for example, is over 4000 pages long and is unintelligible to the average American because it is riddled with so many loopholes and tax breaks for various corporations and even wealthy individuals. Tax reform in the '80s closed some of these loopholes, but the system is still an unfair...
...translation from the election-year code book was needed to make that message clear. With recession-sore Americans demanding economic relief and right-wing Republican challenger Pat Buchanan riding an America First bandwagon, Bush is determined not to give anyone the impression that he is being overly generous to foreigners. If that discourages Yeltsin...
...with other Mob families about dividing the take in shared territory, such as construction or private trash carting. Some organized-crime experts predict that Gotti could meet the same fate as Castellano -- a Mob assassination -- if he ever goes free. The same goes for Gravano. By breaking the sacred code of omerta, or silence, he has committed a capital crime in the eyes of his Mafia brothers. "This is a guy who lived and breathed the Mafia attitude all his life," says a federal agent familiar with the case. "What he's doing now is contrary to everything that...