Word: getterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time mayor Walter J. Sullivan, the other city councilor mentioned as a possible contender this time around, has been the top vote-getter in Cambridge for the last 12 years. Widely considered the most powerful Independent, the Middlesex County employee could be looking to be the city's highest official in 1986, when the council must choose another mayor, observers said yesterday...
...cost of renewing Cabot House alone is expected to cost $12 million. Getter said that Harvard currently has about $9 million in hand for the renovations...
Like her grandfather, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 17- year-old Ayelet Milo is a determined vote getter. At the Miss Israel pageant in Tel Aviv last week, she got enough of the judges' votes to make her runner- up. The child of Begin's daughter Hassia, Ayelet hesitated to enter the competition until she got encouragement from her grandfather. During the grind of dieting and exercise before the contest, her spirits were kept high by daily telephone pep talks from the reclusive Begin, who did not, however, attend the event. As runner-up, Ayelet...
...message is unpalatable, the alert political go-getter tries a captivating messenger. Or, in this case, three of them: Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek, who spoke to a Democratic congressional task force last week on the plight of economically pressed farm families. Journalists and onlookers jammed the hearing room to listen to the actresses who had played farm wives in The Dollmaker (Fonda), Country (Lange) and The River (Spacek). "It is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away," said Lange as she choked back her emotion and brought Fonda to tears. Warned Spacek...
...both of the principals in the race were in different ways somewhat disengaged, two other figures, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, were passionately focused. They made history this year. Ferraro's value to Mondale as a vote getter may have been shadowed by questions about her family's finances. But the precedent that she set was historic. So was Jesse Jackson's. His campaign had its ugly side, but in running the first serious black challenge for the presidential nomination, he drew American blacks psychologically closer to full citizenship...