Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ISSUE in the fall campaigns was the quality of chief City personnel. The liberals elected to the Council had all promised that one of their first actions in office would be to dismiss incumbent City Manager John H. Corcoran. The liberal five argued that Corcoran had appointed mediocre people to important City positions and that he lacked the drive and imagination necessary to work with the Council in instituting long needed reform programs. In the type of city government that Cambridge has, the City Manager has the power to fill vacant City posts and draw up the budget...
ATTENTION WAS FOCUSED on the School Committee in January when the Committee's liberal coalition carried out its campaign promise to dismiss Frank J. Frisoli '35, the Superintendent of Cambridge schools. The liberals accused Frisoli of incompetence and criticized the previous School Committee for appointing Frisoli as Superintendent without consulting a citizens' group that had been set up to interview qualified candidates...
...make a long-range investment in heavy industry rather than light industry, which could produce more jobs more quickly. The justification is that, having broken a French colonial economy tied to agriculture, Boumedienne's Sorbonne-trained Algerian technocrats do not want to re-create what they haughtily dismiss as "a 19th century economy...
...easiest way to understand them is to dismiss them as monsters. If writing off a whole nation makes you uncomfortable, you can posit a totalitarian state that shredded a people to an atomized mass and transformed each man into a monster. But the facts are less convenient. Most Germans lived close to normal lives. The world turned upside down, but most Germans remained standing...
Though some political cynics dismiss him as a stalking horse for his friend Hubert Humphrey, who is not entered in the North Carolina primary, Sanford swears that he is serious in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just as seriously, he says that if he loses to Wallace in North Carolina he will drop out of the race and return to the relative quiet of academe...