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Graham's stunning victory over the 22-year incumbent Democrat came in a backwash of liberal and left-of-liberal votes from various precincts in the district which stretches from Harvard's backdoor along Broadway and Mass Ave.--including Leverett Towers--to the banks of the Charles near M.I.T...
...York State's Urban Development Corporation in 1969 leased the island from the city for 99 years and has spent $180 million on it. But development has been crimped by money shortages-and, until this week, by the fact that the only means of access was by a backdoor, time-consuming route across a bridge from Queens. Only 2,148 of the planned 5,000 apartments have been built; a town center, office building and hotel have been indefinitely postponed...
...know, it might have been a mistake." When Con Ed skipped its regular stock dividend in 1974, banks' loans to electric utilities, as a result of Federal Reserve Bank officials' pressure, jumped from $5.9 billion to $8.4 billion. The Fed will most certainly use similar backdoor techniques to ensure that New York's banks don't go under after default, but it could also extend these forms of economic assistance to give New York enough money to avoid default...
...city's situation is grave and while it's hard to say who or what exactly caused all its financial problems, even President Ford and the Federal Reserve Bank are--through backdoor guarantees to the private banks that might be affected--anticipating "ripple effects" from default. Vice-president Rockefeller links the entire nation's economic well-being to New York's fate...
...damned thing two months after I got here," he says. Alexander has also passed the word that any political requests for tax returns be rebuffed - and if they come from the White House, be personally relayed to him for refusal. "I want to be sure that there is no backdoor information going out of here," he says. Apparently there no longer is: there is no evidence that political abuse of tax returns has been a problem under the Ford Administration...