Word: defeater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting was one of two yesterday, called by top Beacon Hill Democrats to rethink fiscal strategy after the resounding defeat in the House last week of a $1.2 billion tax package strongly supported by Keverian and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...House rejected a proposal that day by Speaker George Keverian '53 for a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax, even after the speaker agreed not to make the increase retroactive for this fiscal year. After the 94-64 defeat, Keverian (D-Everett) retracted his $1 billion tax package from the floor...
Commenting on the bill's defeat, Dukakis said yesterday, "It's not an easy vote for members of the legislature to make, but if we were just elected to cast easy votes there would be no reason to send us up to Beacon Hill...
After pro-choice voters helped defeat Republican candidates last month in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, George Bush started sending out the word that the G.O.P. is big enough to accommodate supporters of abortion rights. But pro-choice job applicants will not find the same warm welcome at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency with the heaviest responsibility for health care and family-policy issues. HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan has become a virtual figurehead, hemmed in by Administration pro- lifers who have made opposition to abortion a litmus test in hiring and policy decisions...
...move was a tacit admission he did not have the votes for the original, retroactive capital gains tax increase, and the defeat indicated Keverian was in trouble with other key provisions...