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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived in Cambridge in 1941, carried in by a wave of good-government reform and prompted by a scandal that nearly bankrupted the city and sent the mayor to jail...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...basically was a real good-government thing," says Paige E. Bigelow of the Institute of Public Administration. "It basically meant that every person's vote really did count--that every member of the electorate had a person whom they really did vote...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...City Council has been split for decades between two distinct groups. On the current council, four members are endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the good-government group that originally backed Plan E. The other five bill themselves as Independents...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...they opposed to Proposition 1-2-3? Are they endorsed by the good-government Cambridge Civic Association? Did they speak in my dining hall...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Nassau County on Long Island is to Republicans what New York City is to Democrats--a good old boy, down and dirty, no apologies political machine. It is one of the last great political machines in America, living and breathing not in the trenches of urban politics but in the unlikely netherland of the Long Island suburbs...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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