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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted, for example, to use tax money to send students to private schools. That's not what Boston, or any city, needs to fix its schools...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Mayor Flynn on the Move | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...Governor Bill himself. Everyone pretty much knows how to deal with him--the Buchananite culture warriors hate him (as well as most of the rest of us), the Kempian supply-siders fear him, the Jacksonian lefties think he's a sell-out and the Perotians just want him to "fix it" or "get to it." ("It" seems like the deficit, although one can never be sure...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Sunburned From Media Glare | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

...been very frustrated over the past two years," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. "They're amazed that we're not dealing with the underlying problems of the economy, like the deficit and the educational system. They want to be reassured that we're going to fix them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Foreigner-Tax Folly | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...these troubles are mechanical. The Crimson no doubt has the talent to fix them. The true dilemma, the thing Harvard needs to start sweating, fretting and regretting is the Terrier Curse. It's real. It's here. It's big, ugly and smelly...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: 'Terrier Curse': Big, Smelly--and Real | 11/25/1992 | See Source »

Collier talks of having trouble finding $90 to pay to fix her father's wheelchair. And she says Medicaid doesn't cover things like false teeth...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Harvard Union Members Say | 11/24/1992 | See Source »

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