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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilder, too, had to gain "30 to 40 percent ofthe white vote" in order to win, according Glazerand other political observers...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Black Victories Signal Move Across Racial, Ethnic Lines | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Some committee members said that although many council members want to preserve the status quo of maximum choice in house assignment, they sense that council leaders are pressing for non-ordered choice out of political desperation, and a conviction that the council will gain if it appears to have won a compromise with the dean...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Council Sets Lottery Response | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...Their gain will be our loss," Danehy said, saying he thought Vellucci would be successful in his election...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Council Readies for Election | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

With Graham retiring from the council this year, many Black activists say they hope to gain two seats. But they could also end up with none...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: System of Proportional Representation | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...approve housing projects. Many of them, HUD documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand D'Amato also represented a company that won a HUD contract for a luxury resort rather than housing for the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody's Pal | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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