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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan said he expects no increase in state aid this year, and added that the Commonwealth may charge the city as much as $500,000 more than this year to make up for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) deficit...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Official Says City Budget Will Force Taxes Up | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

Patriots Day was celebrated across the Bay State yesterday, in Lexington and Concord with parades and on Cambridge Common, where Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 delivered a traditional address. It was in Cambridge that Revere borrowed the horse that carried him to Lexington. In Cambridge Common, Minuteman and militia from around the Commonwealth camped, sealing the British in Boston. Gen. George Washington arrived to take command of the American troops--and within a year the starved-out British evacuated Boston...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Patriots Day--The Revolution 205 Years Later | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

...five years later at the age of 34, the writing she left behind was indeed a scrappy oeuvre: 88 stories, 26 of them unfinished, many others juvenilia, sketches, magazine-formula pieces, experimental cul-de-sacs. Fortunately, among them were also shards of genius. Her best stories-At the Bay, Je ne parle pas français, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, perhaps half a dozen others-leaped beyond the traditional 19th century tale in a few quick, bright strokes. Although they were short on narrative, the pieces proved startlingly fresh, almost hallucinatory in their vividness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scraps of Genius | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...showed Carter slipping badly from his top-heavy lead of a few weeks earlier. They also showed a huge number of voters undecided. In addition to the frustration over the hostages in Iran, economic troubles loomed large. Jobless contruction contractors turned up at a Rosalynn Carter motorcade through Green Bay to wave signs that read WILL I EVER AFFORD A HOME? and SEND JIMMY BACK TO THE NUT FARM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Big Winner: Reagan Again | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...Bourne Identity, Ludlum (2) 3. The Devil's Alternative, Forsyth (3) 4. Smiley's People, Le Carré (4) 5. Who's on First, Buckley (6) 6. The Bleeding Heart, French (8) 7. Portraits, Freeman (5) 8. Memories of Another Day, Robbins 9. Back Bay, Martin 10. Sophie's Choice, Styron

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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