Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago forty staff workers and a dozen members of the Cities Demonstration Agency (CDA) Board invaded City Hall, hoping to confront and pin down City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin on three specific issues-two contracts and Model Cities pay raises-that illustrated the clash of power over the program...
...past week, virtually the entire staff has been going door to door in the model neighborhood, trying to rally constituent support for their power clash with City Hall. They have been ringing doorbells, collecting signatures on a petition backing the CDA board, and talking to the people they are trying to serve, finding the problems they are supposed to combat. And in the process of campaigning for "Resident control for Cambridge Model Cities," the staff members are uncovering some interesting facts...
This is not a question of political power; that question has already beensolved. It is a clash of ideologies, and in the balance hangs a variety of potentially brilliant programs to aid the aged, the children, the poor and the working class...
Dayan's ultimate sin, however, is that he has increasingly irritated Golda Meir. She dislikes his hawk-dove vacillation. She frets at the time consumed in Cabinet sessions discussing Dayan. Disagreements between the two have become a clash of personalities. When Dayan began a lengthy explanation of his Suez disengagement plan to the Cabinet recently, Mrs. Meir acidly interrupted to ask whether an old woman who knew nothing about defense could insert a question. Dayan fell silent...
Harvard's indoor track season opens tonight with a dual meet against Boston University, but everyone seems to be looking past the Terriers toward Saturday's clash with Army...