Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAYOR WHITE is not finished yet, the media consensus not with standing White's opponents certainly had little to cheer about when The Globe reported on January 8 that the mayor's campaign treasury was 50 percent fatter than all six of his rivals' combined Nor can they be optimistic if they remember the 1975 race well. When The Globe was investigating the mayor's fundraising practices, and Timilty was attacking corruption at City Hall and White still held...
They had reason to cheer. The number of union production workers employed by Firestone at the factory had dwindled from a peak of 850 in early 1980 to 260. Bridgestone intends to keep on all current employees and recall 170 laid-off workers, probably by next week. The company will invest $35 million over the next five years to retool the factory with efficient new equipment and perhaps quadruple the current tire output...
Whether any real cheer is warranted remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the White House chose former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to head a new commission that will study ways to deploy the MX missile. Other members will include three former Secretaries of Defense and, reportedly, Alexander Haig, who quit as Reagan's Secretary of State only six months ago. The study will presumably lead the commission into a broad review of the composition and strategy of all U.S. nuclear forces, whether or not agreement can be reached with the Soviets on limiting them...
There is plenty to cheer in Kate Nelligan 's acting in Plenty...
...financial arrangements of the board will hardly cheer the poor or the shrinking number of underpaid, overburdened lawyers who represent them. The Georgia branch of the LSC has lost 100 of its 300 staff members. Offices in some towns have been closed; others are served only by circuit-riding lawyers. Community Legal Services of Philadelphia has decided that in order to stay afloat, it must jettison eviction cases, small-claims actions, child support and custody cases, contested divorces and many spouse-abuse complaints. The office still represents many clients appealing disqualifications from the Social Security disability program and wins back...