1.   As recently as October, several exhibitors said its costs remained exorbitant, although featherbedding and mob influence appeared to have been rooted out.

2.   But society officials vehemently deny any mob influence in a festival that is intended to venerate the patron saint of Naples.

3.   But violence, a hallmark of mob influence, is absent in most local bookmaking cases, authorities agreed.

4.   Carberry said mob control is gone but that mob influence remains in some locals along with plenty of garden-variety graft.

5.   Carey was credited for rooting out mob influence in the Teamsters.

6.   Charges of mob influence and political corruption are nothing new in this blue-collar town, where Al Capone once lived.

7.   City officials maintain that the new regulations in the fish market have already reduced mob influence and improved working conditions and may lead to lower retail fish prices.

8.   Federal authorities are focusing on mob influence at New York shipping harbors and other, so far unnamed distilleries.

9.   For this is its first year under new management after a City Hall crackdown intended to rid it of corruption and mob influence.

10.   Hoffa said it was preposterous for anyone to suggest that he would allow the return of mob influence.