Word: koch
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When the American Indian Museum began negotiating earlier this year with Perot about possible relocation, both Governor Mario M. Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch pledged to garner $56 million to keep the museum in New York...
Roland W. Force, director of the Indian museum, said he had no guarantees that the state or the city could produce the funds Cuomo and Koch had promised, since they are subject to legislative approval...
...other public education program in the country. All of the 14 boys and six girls, ages 14 to 19, say they are homosexual. The Harvey Milk School, which was quietly inaugurated in April, stirred considerable controversy when it came to light last week. Though the office of Mayor Edward Koch and other city agencies approved its establishment, many New York officials expressed surprise at the project, and questions were raised about the wisdom of funding a separate school (annual budget: $50,000) for homosexual youths. At a press conference, Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones insisted that Harvey Milk performs a valuable...
...urban location? On a house occupied by children as well as wanted adults? Shouldn't the authorities have known fire might result? Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington, said the tactic was, at the very least, "an extreme police response." Mayor Ed Koch of New York said he would fire a police commissioner who even proposed such a "stupid" idea. Even those who held criticism in check could hardly help wondering how in the name of sanity it all had come about...
...until the city took its own action. The New York Daily News headline for that rebuff is famous: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. New York did not drop dead. Instead it got mad, went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other city in the country." Few New Yorkers seemed to remember that one of the reasons for the rebound was Jerry Ford's firm no. Such are the rewards of refusal...