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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year incumbent Timothy J. Toomey Jr. won the most votes, raking in 3182 "number-ones," and passing the quota of 3215 votes needed to win after the third count, in which losing candidate Donna Brescia's votes were transferred...
...incumbents Frances H. Cooper and Larry Weinstein, who finished second and third respectively, also made a strong showing, and reached quota after the fifth count. Independent incumbent Alfred B. Fantini came in fourth to secure his fourth school committee term...
...fifth seat, which seemed marked for Rafferty after the first count, appeared less secure for him after the fifth when St. George, Davis, and Simmons appeared to be gaining heavily from the upward transfer of CCA candidates' votes...
...race for the sixth seat was also close. Henrietta Davis, Denise Simmons, and John T. St. George '70-'72 were neck and neck until the end of the sixth count when Davis and St. George edged out Simmons by a narrow margin of less than 100 votes...
...latest count, the October crash had spawned more than half a dozen important investigations. One was a special three-person task force announced on Oct. 22 by President Reagan and headed by New York City Investment Banker Nicholas Brady. Its mandate: to study the market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored...