Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wedtech scandal has prompted some congressional interest in reform legislation. Massachusetts Democrat Nicholas Mavroules, who chairs a House small-business subcommittee, is championing a bill that would bar any political appointee from helping select minority contractors or managing the program. A more controversial approach, favored by Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte, would require minority contractors to participate in competitive bidding and eliminate the SBA's awkward role as the middleman between federal agencies and minority businesses...
...Neill's experience on that summer day 60 years ago laid the foundations for his political career, which has raised both him and his community to prominence. Most recently, the staunchly liberal Democrat has won praise and admiration for leading the opposition to the Reagan domestic policy revolution of tax and social program cuts...
...most legislators say their own political views are more important in their decision making than a Harvard connection. According to Democrat Keverian, "Everyone is proud of the institution, and the fact that they attended Harvard, and there is a feeling of camaraderie, but I don't think there is any sense of elitism...
...that this is one of the dullest, longest and least persuasive presentations ever made." Joy Fennel, a juror who says she once leaned toward conviction, agrees: "I was frustrated the D.A. didn't do a better job." Several jurors also indicated sympathy with a defense contention that Merola, a Democrat, brought the charges just before the 1984 election in a politically motivated attempt to embarrass the Reagan Administration. Countered Merola: "In the Bronx, you need a smoking gun or a knife to convince a jury a crime has been committed...
DIED. Wilbur Cohen, 73, scrappy, reform-minded New Deal Democrat who helped draft the Social Security Act (1935) and Medicare (1965), served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1968-69) under Lyndon Johnson, and later became a public affairs professor at the University of Texas; of a heart attack; in Seoul, while attending a conference on aging...