Word: bridgeport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, on a pleasantly cool Monday night in June, the soft-spoken 19-year- old, who grew up in the public-housing projects in Bridgeport, Conn., proudly marched into the local civic auditorium with 128 other green-and- white-robed members of the Bassick High School graduating class of 1991. He didn't sit on the podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that...
...Federal Government. Burdened by overzealous borrowing, more than 60,000 companies with liabilities totaling a record $64 billion declared bankruptcy last year. The pace has quickened in 1991 as firms with liabilities of $34.6 billion failed in the first four months alone. Last week the city of Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 142,000), became the largest U.S. municipality ever to declare bankruptcy when it filed for protection from creditors after failing to find a politically acceptable way to close a $12 million budget...
University of Bridgeport Virginia's Governor -- and potential presidential candidate -- canceled his commencement speech on 24 hours' notice: he refused to cross the picket lines of striking faculty members...