Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...democratic control." The more political pressure is exerted to improve the schools, they argue, the more bureaucracy is created to monitor the new reform nostrums. In their view, only a choice system that frees the schools from political pressures entirely -- and introduces the competition of the marketplace -- can make a lasting difference...
...without strengths as he ponders what move to make next. He still poses a potent military threat: he might not win on the battlefield, but he could make the contest bloody. Or he could ignite a conflagration so broad and so intense it would burn everyone. Or he could simply fold his tent, in the same pragmatic way he handed peace to Iran two weeks ago, and retire to fight another day. But for now, his best play is probably to sit tight...
...logic of power aside, there is no certainty what choice Saddam will make. British diplomats reported last week that Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had held talks with Saddam in Baghdad. According to the report, Arafat found Saddam nervous and often confused during their discussions. He was particularly furious at the personal attacks on him by Bush and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This mood may account for Saddam's strange appearance on television as the misunderstood statesman. If his judgment is that poor, he may yet turn his country into a battlefield...
These are difficult times for the 25 families, or "brugads," that make up America's Cosa Nostra (rough translation: our thing). During the 1980s, some 1,200 Mafia operatives were convicted, including the leaderships of New York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
Even the currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background...