Word: gov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board of Education lowered the test standards so that more students could pass. Then, at the delayed prompting of Gov. A. Paul Cellucci (fully aware of possible election-year fallout should he not take action), it reconvened to restore the scoring system to its original, more rigorous level. The interim commissioner of the board, Frank Haydu, a proponent of the lower standards, resigned last week, rather than face more interference from the governor and Board of Education Chair John Silber...
June 24 - President Truman signs the Selective Service Act, and the Republican National Convention nominates Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York for the presidency...
...Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," he shot back at New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and the establishment Republicans during the bruising 1964 Republican National Convention. "Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Democrats coupled that comment with Goldwater's hawkishness on Vietnam and used it to bury him in the ensuing campaign (remember the camapaign commercial with the daisy girl and the mushroom cloud?), but it was the soul of the Goldwater psyche: know your philosophy, stick to it, and never hesitate to speak your mind...
...York State electoral politics. It's a subject he's particularly interested in, for some reason, and I'm more than happy to share what little information I've gleaned about the key state-wide races. After I give him my "New Yorker" perspective on the power struggle between Gov. George Pataki and Lieutenant Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross, he notes with satisfaction that my summary gels with the impression he got from reading about the controversy in The New York Times...
Gautam: My parents aren't happy with the concentration I'm choosing. It's Gov and they think it should be Physics. But they'll let me get away with it eventually...