Word: campaigned
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...year ago, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis campaigned across the country touting the "Massachusetts Miracle." Aides to powerful Senate President William M. Bulger, a Democrat, were quietly talking about a campaign for state-wide office. And no rational politician dared make designs on the Governor's office. Suddenly, all of that has changed...
Lacking support from even his most staunch legislative allies, Dukakis recently launched a statewide campaign to generate support for the tax plan. But legislative leaders have adamantly insisted that the public will not tolerate tax hikes...
...first hurdle of the upcoming gubernatorial campaign is February 4, when state Democratic caucuses elect delegates to the party's issues convention, held this spring. Prospective candidates' organizational strength is typically gauged by their convention showing...
...Institute of Politics (IOP), as it does each semester, will bring several prominent politicos to Cambridge this spring, including a former U.S. senator and several senior political advisors from the 1988 presidential campaign...
...last fall followed a student sit-in at the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 in the spring. Later, campus conservatives complained that they were not fairly represented on a student dean search committee which reserved two seats for members of the minority Coalition for Diversity. After a bitter campaign, the student body roundly rejected a proposal by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness to prevent seats in future ad hoc committees from being reserved for specific groups...