Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speeches, Weld points out some embarrassing facts concerning Bellotti: Bellotti was hired just prior to his race for Attorney General in 1974 by PCM, Inc. as an attorney. PCM was headed by Daniel Shields and William Harding, former executives of MBM, Inc., a firm from which two state senators, who are now serving jail terms, extorted bribes...
...work. Although Bellotti claims to have advised PCM only on strictly legal matters, witnesses claim that Bellotti personally lobbied Essex County commissioners to persuade them to make a contract with PCM. According to investigative news stories, although PCM had only been incorporated the previous month, Bellotti praised the PCM firm at a February 5, 1974 meeting of the Essex Country commissioners, saying the PCM firm was "the most informed and efficient in their entire field...
...candidates raise sizable chunks of money. It becomes a catch-22 situation: women find it hard to attract heavy contributions because they seem less likely to win than male opponents, and women are less likely to win because they cannot raise big money. Audrey Sheppard of the Washington consulting firm of Rothstein/Buckley reports: "Where women were able to raise the money and run adequate campaigns, they were very competitive...
...John Paul showed that he could be firm, he also demonstrated he could be highly unpredictable. An example came last week with his trip to a Rome hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing...
Neil Young has spent over a decade writing finely shaded, sometimes frighteningly intense personal music that dances right around the edges of Dylan's long shadow. Young, a firm Dylan loyalist, also has a new record out, Comes a Time, and last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed...