Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That shift came dramatically and unexpectedly. The representative of the city's unfashionable eastern district for more than a decade, Agnos badly trailed Front Runner Molinari in early polls and fund raising. But tactless campaign mailings and a poor television-debate performance hurt Molinari. Agnos' superb grass-roots organization, as well as his advocacy of rent controls and affordable housing, turned the campaign around. Agnos nearly outpolled all ten other candidates in November's general election to set up last week's landslide...
...money for the project will come from the community, Ford said. A major fund drive in 1983 raised $1.1 million, but that money has all been spent. Further fundraisers are not planned...
Lovedart takes third place, after the Tidal Waves, and hands the $75 check to his fiancee for their wedding fund. (They're a lip-sync couple. They met on the circuit, and their courtship included a lip-sync duet of Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which could loosely be described as a love song.) Asked about his future, Lovedart concedes that he's thought about putting together a portfolio and taking it to an agent. "But I don't know how I would handle the success." What he means is that he's already been on television...
...Adams House resident said that he sent out about 100 letters recruiting seniors to join an Ad Hoc Committee Against Apartheid, which would decide whether to reinvigorate E4D. After two or three meetings, the group decided in favor of the fund...
...holds more than $20,000 in its coffers and will continue to reserve these funds until Harvard divests of its interests in South Africa or the United Nations declares the end of apartheid. If neither goal is achieved within the next 15 years, the fund will be handed over to the Phillips Brooks House Association or charity...