Word: cuomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case lurched from the unusual into the bizarre. On the advice of lawyers, Tawana, now 16, and her mother Glenda, 33, have refused to help investigators. Through advisers, they charged that local authorities with racist motives were protecting the guilty. They demanded an outside investigation. When Governor Mario Cuomo obliged, appointing Attorney General Robert Abrams as special prosecutor, the Brawleys still refused to cooperate. Last week, after Glenda Brawley defied a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Poughkeepsie, Judge Angelo Ingrassia fined her $250 and sentenced her to 30 days for contempt. The confrontation then revved...
...agreement capped two decades of controversy over Shoreham. The plant was not licensed by the U.S. Government to go into service, mainly because the surrounding communities would not accept LILCO's emergency-evacuation plan. Though the utility clung to the hope that it might get a license, Governor Mario Cuomo became determined that the plant would not start up. To ensure Shoreham's demise, the state decided to buy the facility, but talks with LILCO dragged on for six months, to the point where New York prepared a $7.8 billion takeover bid for the entire utility. Cuomo set a deadline...
...Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo is a poet. And Dukakis is a word processor...
Poetry, as Jackson and Cuomo and Nixon and Noonan know, will not remedy an empty mind or a cold heart. But if all other factors are reasonably balanced, the man who learns how to make the most beanbags dance will probably be the next President...
FROM an oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued Minnesotan was thrilling the audience...