Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, in almost seven years as mayor, Rizzo has infuriated almost every voter bloc in the city except the blue-collar ethnics who helped elect him in the first place. He has angered liberals by defending his police department against charges of brutality. He has outraged businessmen and many homeowners by increasing taxes 30% in 1976, the largest boost in the city's history, and by running a projected deficit that portends further tax rises...
...pushing for approval at the Nov. 7 election of a change in the city's charter that would allow him to run for a third term next year. His opponents include the Black United Front Against Charter Change, the liberal Committee to Protect the Charter and the businessmen's Committee for the Defense of the Charter. Says Banker R. Stuart Rauch Jr.: "Rizzo is a master at fragmenting the opposition, but now he's running against the most organized, best-financed, toughest opposition he's ever had." Businessmen have raised $200,000 primarily for radio...
...Businessmen tend to view the guidelines as an attack on the symptoms rather than the causes of inflation. Shearon Harris, chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sent Carter a six-page letter sarcastically suggesting that the Administration apply guidelines not to wages and prices but to its own actions, "such as a 7% limit on the increase in federal taxes, a 5¾% [ceiling on the] increase in overall federal spending and a freeze on net new regulations." William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said last week that guidelines may have "some value" but "there...
...Cambridge residents, businessmen and officials are worried enough about the MBTA's current plans for extension of the Red Line, they must also, it seems, be willing to sacrifice the total package
...panel of businessmen and historians advised History graduate students how to market their academic skills to suit the demands of non-academic professions such as business and consulting at Dudley House yesterday afternoon...