Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rerun of a bitter political contest whose first round was fought in 1978. Then as now, the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Massachusetts featured Michael Dukakis against Edward King. In both elections the incumbent lost. But four years ago, it was Challenger King who upset Governor Dukakis, while last week the deposed Dukakis, 48, won the nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well...
...inevitable peril of this peculiar genre still afflicts My Harvard. My Yale: The book is filled with self-satisfied recollections of success Edward Weeks '22, the former editor of The Atlantic, thinks back to his undergraduate years and what should come to him but this vignette...
...Edward L. Laumann, the chairman of Chicago's sociology department, attributed his decision primarily to the fact that Chicago's department is considerably larger than Harvard's and stronger in his specialty of data analysis...
...adage about politics and bed-fellows rang true yet again this week, when Edward J. King supported Michael S. Dukakis in his quest to become Massachusetts' next governor. The bitter ideological and personal rivalry goes back to 1978, when King unseated Dukakis--who was governor at the time--in the Democratic primary. At a Statehouse press conference Thursday. King announced. "I will support the Democratic ticket. Michael Dukakis is on that ticket." The lame duck governor went on to say he would not campaign in the next five weeks...
...board voted three to two on August 10 to reinstate conditionally Natalie Podryhula, who has worked as a police dispatcher for the past three years. But in a letter on August 20 to New Haven Mayor Biagio DiLieto. Edward White Jr., president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), urged DiLieto to "use his leadership to reverse the unconscionable action of the Police Commission...