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Kennedy, 35, is scheduled to make a formal announcement of his bid on May 21. He succeeded former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in 1986, surviving an 11-candidate primary battle for the seat and then handily defeating Republican Clark C. Abt by better than two-to-one in the general election...
Both sides also cite a study on rent-controltenants that was released this summer. Based on apoll by Abt Associates, a local consulting firm,the study shows that 70 percent of cityrent-control tenants make less than the averagecity income of $22.590. It also reports that 9percent of rent control tenants earn 50 percentmore than the mean...
...Administration, and the requirement that 10% of all highway funds ($1.2 billion) go to minority contractors. The most frequent problems are false-front companies, which are purportedly controlled by minorities but actually owned by whites. A federally funded 1986 study of highway set-aside programs in nine states by Abt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that about 20% of minority contractors engage in fraudulent activities. Now the SBA is mired in the worst scandal in the history of the set-aside programs: the tangle of bribery, theft and political favoritism surrounding the Wedtech Corp., a Bronx, N.Y., defense supplier once...
...abt an ol woman, so vain...
Kennedy defeated his opponent, Businessman Clark Abt, 72% to 28%. Characteristically, he puts his victory in emotional perspective: "If you just do it the way you really believe it should be done, there is some justice." (His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not fare so well in her bid for Congress. She lost to incumbent Maryland Republican Helen Delich Bentley, 41% to 59%.) Kennedy has been faulted for his impulsive nature; he is no intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing...