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Word: cavanagh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas grew out of a conversation over a couple of Margaritas ten months ago. Wayne Granquist, 42, OMB's associate director, was trying to talk his old friend Dick Cavanagh, 31, into leaving a consulting job at McKinsey & Co. and joining Government. What precisely would Cavanagh do? Granquist had a simple but dramatic way of showing him. Check your personal records, he told Cavanagh, and see how long it took the Internal Revenue Service to cash your quarterly income tax check. Cavanagh discovered to his astonishment that it had taken 22 days. Granquist had made his point, and soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Putting Uncle's Cash to Work | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...symbolic blow for fiscal discipline was struck last week when Deputy Mayor James Cavanagh was forced out of office. Long identified with New York's budget gimmickry, Cavanagh had been under pressure from the city's financial overseers. To demonstrate the city's determination to cut spending, Mayor Beame ordered the elimination of another 8,374 jobs last week for an estimated saving of $200 million. The cumulative cutbacks would reduce the number of full-time city employees from some 300,000 before the fiscal crisis began to a little more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: One Step Back from the Brink | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...longer Joe Cavanagh swooping in on Ken Dryden, or the Local Line clicking for perfect passes up and down the ice. It is merely a clash between two of the many teams vying for the top four seeds in the division...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

...harsh words brought the mostly black audience of 2,000 cheering to its feet. What seemed most welcome was Young's conviction that one of the deteriorating city's chief problems was solvable and that the city was governable. Only recently, former Mayor Jerome Cavanagh had suggested that the best any mayor could do was "buy time until things get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: New Men for Detroit and Atlanta | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

McManama topped the 100 mark in career scoring this season, adding 51 points to the 99 he earned during his sophomore and junior years. He stands third among Harvard's career scorers, behind Bob Cleary and Cavanagh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McManama Wins Grid Club Trophy | 3/16/1973 | See Source »

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