According to Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, it was at the Luciano meeting, held in the Grand Hotel et des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily, that a plan was put into place through which Sicilians were responsible for distributing heroin in the U. S., while the American mobsters collected a share of the income as " franchise fees ".

According to Luciano ’ s evidence, and he is the only one who ever recounted details of the events in any detail, he confirmed that he was appointed as kingpin for the mob, to rule from Cuba until such time as he could find a legitimate way back into the U. S. Entertainment at the conference was provided by, among others, Frank Sinatra who flew down to Cuba with their friends, the Fischetti brothers.

According to an interview he later gave Time magazine, Ferraris was surprised to discover that, though now CFO, he still did not have access to some of the corporate books, which were being handled by chief accounting officer Luciano Del Soldato.

According to Jasper Ridley: " When the name of Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, who was a member for Viterbo, was called, he replied to the roll-call by calling out Long live the Republic!

According to the school's website, Luciano Pavarotti made his international recital debut at the campus in 1973.

According to Lach & Kley ( 1993 ), modern historians ( namely, Luciano Petech ) think that the emissaries portrayed had actually come from Turpan, and not all the way from the Moghul India.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

According to historian Luciano Revoredo, the preparation of Pisco with lemon dates as far back as the 18th century.

According to Philippine historian, Dr. Luciano Santiago, it is the only town in the Philippines that is formally recognized as a historical site by both the church and the state.

According to Mafia boss Luciano Leggio, testifying at the Maxi Trial against the Mafia in the mid 1980s, Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Greco " Ciaschiteddu " were in favour of helping Borghese.

According to the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, " The Chris Awards ( is ) one of the most prestigious documentary, educational, business and informational competitions in the U. S ; ( it is ) the oldest of its kind in North America and celebrating its 54th year.

According to Neil Postman, Media ecology is concerned with understanding how technologies and techniques of communication control the form, quantity, speed, distribution, and direction of information ; and how, in turn, such informational configurations or biases affect people's perceptions, values, and attitudes.

According to the Law of Ukraine On the Intelligence agencies of Ukraine, the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence ( Defence Intelligence ) conducts its activity in the military, political, technical, economic, informational and environmental spheres.

According to an informational piece broadcast over the channel, Stanley B. Thomas, Jr., former senior vice president of Time Warner, headed the service.

According to most authors organizational architecture is a metaphor, like traditional architecture it shapes the organizational ( some authors would say the informational ) space where life will take place.

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

According to structural theory in anthropology and social anthropology, meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities that serve as systems of signification.

According to this view mathematical systems exist, and have structural features

According to another theory, it is believed that the pointed arch evolved naturally in Western Europe as a structural solution to a purely technical problem, concurrent with its introduction and early use as a stylistic feature in French and English churches.

According to general semantics, the content of all knowledge is structure, so that language ( in general ) and science and mathematics ( in particular ) can provide people with a structural ' map ' of empirical facts, but there can be no ' identity ', only structural similarity, between the language ( map ) and the empirical facts as lived through and observed by people as humans-in-environments ( including doctrinal and linguistic environments ).

According to the National Institutes of Health, this finding was the strongest evidence at that time that structural differences in a specific part of the brain may contribute to the risk of SIDS.

According to Hicks, 19th-century Kantianism operated in two broad camps: structural linguistics and phenomenology.

According to NASA: " An investigation board concluded that the most likely cause of the mishap was structural failure of the spacecraft due to plume heating during the solid-rocket motor burn.

According to Hymer, market imperfections are structural, arising from structural deviations from perfect competition in the final product market due to exclusive and permanent control of proprietary technology, privileged access to inputs, scale economies, control of distribution systems, and product differentation, but in their absence markets are perfectly efficient.

According to Giddens there is a " Duality of structure " by which social practice, which is the principal unit of investigation, has both a structural and an agency-component.

According to Severud Associates, the structural engineering consultants, it was the first tall building to use high strength bolted connections, the first tall building to combine a braced frame with a moment frame, one of the first tall buildings to use a vertical truss bracing system and the first tall building to employ a composite steel and concrete lateral frame.

According to former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Ramos " has done nothing to reverse or slow down the implementation " of the harmful IMF-imposed structural reforms.

According to Levin and Schwartz ( 2007 ) these structural elements depend heavily on the cost and quality of services provided ( p. 14 ).

According to the EC Treaty, European Union law applies to these territories with possible derogations to take account of their " structural social and economic situation ... which is compounded by their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few products, the permanence and combination of which severely restrain their development ...".

According to the MOC, the Metropolia of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church ( SOC ), headed by Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović, has existed for only around eight decades, " or to be more precise, it has been there since 1920 when it was established as a structural and integral part of the Serbian Patriarchy in doctrinal, legal and organizational sense ".

According to social structural theory, the division of labor and social expectations lead to gender differences in sociosexuality.

According to the structural engineer, Bill Baker of SOM, the building's design incorporates cultural and historical elements particular to the region.

According to the type of web structural data, web structure mining can be divided into two kinds:

According to FEMA, 16 percent of all fire fighter deaths in 2002 occurred due to a structural collapse or because the fire fighter got lost.

According to sociologist Herbert Gans, while Myrdal ’ s structural conceptualization of the underclass remained relatively intact through the writings of William Julius Wilson and others, in several respects the structural definition was abandoned by many journalists and academics and replaced with a behavioral conception of the underclass, which fuses Myrdal ’ s term with Oscar Lewis ’ s and others ' conception of a “ culture of poverty .”

According to the present view of the situation, quantum mechanics flatly contradicts Einstein's philosophical postulate that any acceptable physical theory must fulfill " local realism ".

According to Richard Boyd, moral realism means that:

According to Morris, some of the most common criticisms that used against the practicality or realism of restorative justice are:

According to scientific realism, an ideal scientific theory has the following features:

According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that birds tried to eat the painted grapes.

According to Mortimer J. Adler, who considered himself an Aristotelean at heart, the " mistake " of substituting idealism for realism is "...

According to the game's designer, Yu Suzuki, the stages of OutRun are mostly based on European scenery ; he had toured Europe in order to gain insight on how to design the game's levels and capture as much realism as possible.

According to R. Howard Bloch, fabliaux are the first expression of literary realism in Europe.

According to moral realism, such a sentence claims there to be some objective property of ' wrongness ' associated with the act of murder.

According to Richard Stang, it was a French treatise of 1846 on Dutch and Flemish painting that first popularized the application of the term realism to fiction. Stang, The Theory of the Novel in England, p. 149, refers to Arsène Houssaye, Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise ( 1846 ; 2d ed., Paris: Jules Hetzel, 1866 ).

According to Yerka, during his period studying in the academy he was pressured by his instructors to eschew detail and realism in favor of the fashion of the times-but did not relent, adhering to the meticulous classic Flemish technique that still typifies his work.

According to his theory, known as offensive realism, the anarchic nature of the international system, the desire for survival, and the inability to be sure of other states ' intentions ultimately lead states to pursue regional hegemony.