Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kohutka fought back, filing a grievance. Combined with the threat of a suit, a warning from tenants that they would stage a rent strike, and increasing public attention to the case, Kohutka was able to win severance pay and other benefits, along with a recommendation from the University good enough that he soon found another...
...part of what promises to be the hardest fought press war the Big Apple has seen in years...
...usual, however, the major electoral battles will be fought out in the large industrial states of the Northeast and Midwest. Carter's aides are frank enough to admit that they are behind in nearly every one of these key states...
After his family moved to Brooklyn, Koch worked his way through City College by selling shoes. During World War II, he fought in Europe as an Army sergeant and returned to graduate from New York University Law School. A reformer at heart, he was a worker for Adlai Stevenson and, in 1966, won a term on the city council. In 1968 he was elected to his first of four terms as a Congressman representing Manhattan's "Silk Stocking" district, which includes part of the wealthy Upper East Side. In 1977, despite the fact that both the banks and labor...
...rulers at a time when nation-to-nation bonds are anything but happy. Relations between Washington and Managua were especially sticky during congressional stalling on the $75 million aid package. By the time it was approved, the Sandinistas were no longer grateful, to say the least. Pezzullo, who had fought hard for the aid's passage, managed to minimize the political damage...