Word: iras
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Good news beats the blues. Sadly perhaps, a presidential campaign should not be confused with adult education. Or to update an Ira Gershwin lyric, "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers, it is the upbeat message that conquers." Look what happened to the Cassandras with apocalyptic new ideas. Jack Kemp's earnest seminars on gold-bug economics went the way of Pete du Pont's Iowa lectures on the evils of farm subsidies. Bruce Babbitt's budgetary bravery proved that press puffery persuades few primary voters. Dick Gephardt's political stock soared only after he softened his overheated...
...candidate's national organization. Nicholas Mitropoulos, 36, Dukakis' constant shadow on the campaign trail, is an earthy, good-natured pol. A former associate director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, Mitropoulos became the Governor's director of personnel. As head of Dukakis' department of revenue, Ira Jackson, 39, a former associate dean of Harvard's John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, was largely responsible for Dukakis' highly touted tax-collection efforts. If Jackson could be lured away from his job at the Bank of Boston, he could fill a top position at the Treasury or the Office of Management...
...major trend of contemporary American psychology is to include cognitive factors," says Ira S. Cohen, director of educational affairs for the American Psychological Association...
...appeal went unheeded. Two days after the Milltown attack, a 21-year-old Protestant woman, with no known connections to the security forces, was shot dead near the Irish border on Friday. Her 24-year-old boyfriend was wounded in the same attack. The IRA has claimed responsibility for the shootings. An even uglier incident soon followed. On Saturday, during the funeral procession for one of the Milltown cemetery victims, an angry crowd of mourners spotted two British undercover agents desperately trying to maneuver their car out of trouble. They were pulled from their vehicle, disarmed, stripped, beaten savagely, dragged...
...heavies open in Providence against Brown on April 10. The Bruins won the Eastern Sprints and the IRA championships last season, and should be among the Crimson's primary challengers again this spring...