Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another element of this cooperative effort will be to replace the Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT) clothing store's building with a taller office building. Replacing that building, which is the closest to Brattle Square, would have to be done in partnership with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which owns the air rights to the structure because a tunnel for Harvard Square buses runs underneath...
...Another element of this cooperative effort will be to replace the Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT) clothing store's building with a taller office building. Replacing that building, which is the closest to Brattle Square, would have to be done in partnership with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which owns the air rights to the structure because a tunnel for Harvard Square buses runs underneath...
There is another element in the Dukakis campaign, one that is politically more problematic. With Mario Cuomo on the sidelines, Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is the only claimant to give-me-your-tired-your-poor ethnicity. But this first-generation heritage can also make Dukakis seem like a political outsider, especially in the South. Introducing him at a speech in Corpus Christi, Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro said, "Governor, when I saw the two k's in your name, I can tell you we've never had a Dukakis run for anything in Texas...
...Dukakis talked about his ambition to be Governor of Massachusetts. Small wonder that as a young lawyer he plunged into Brookline politics with a vengeance, engineering a good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There was a strong element of social class to the struggle: well- educated reformers rebelling against old-line Irish ethnic politics. Elected to the state legislature in 1962, Dukakis radiated disdain for backslapping and favor trading while zealously championing causes like no- fault auto insurance...
...There is an element of elitism associated with Harvard--the view of a yankee protestant background, such as the Cabots `older family hertiage' image," Clark explains...