Word: austin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertising fiasco fomented revolution in the colonies. Miffed state directors, dissatisfied with Boston's product, started making their own spots -- and trading them with one another. Late one night at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, media consultant Gerald Austin, Jesse Jackson's former campaign manager, slipped into the elevator, videocassette in hand, to air his commercials for Dukakis. Even after a long day, Dukakis insisted on screening them before they could run, just as he had approved every other spot the campaign aired. An incredulous Austin shook his head at Dukakis' micromanagement. But one of the ads, a Japan-bashing...
...Sixty-three hospitals have had to close in the past five years, 34 of them in rural areas. Now 49 of Texas' 254 counties are without a hospital; at least 13 do not even have a doctor. Referring to the loss of the recently shuttered Bastrop hospital, outside Austin, board member Susan Cartelli groans, "Now Friday- night football games at the high school can be a nightmare...
...residents of Central Square are happy with the MIT proposal. Austin Elder Jr., a 53-year resident of Cambridge says that MIT and Harvard are the problems, not the solution to improving Central Square...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' vice presidential running mate, was drawing upon the memory of fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, whose presidential library in Austin was the site for an evening campaign rally...
...they are afraid that the Sleds may be followed by other black families, that white residents will move, then property values will plummet, and the neighborhood will deteriorate. "I'm afraid of what could happen," said one 75-year-old woman. Until 1972 she and her husband lived in Austin, a Chicago suburb that went from predominantly white to predominantly black. "We had to sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves? We're too old to move again." She does not know if she can trust her neighbors...