Word: kuciniches
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...Cleveland is a sweet plum of a town to live in these days, it is due largely to Voinovich. Three years ago, the city was strictly persimmon as it puckered its way through an attempt to recall its abrasive Democratic child-mayor, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich. Then, in December 1978, Cleveland failed to pay $15 million of its debt, thus becoming the first major U.S. city to default since the 1930s. Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-to-1 in Cleveland, but Voinovich nevertheless managed to trounce Kucinich by a vote...
...years ago Cleveland was a national joke. The combative antics of 32-year-old Mayor Dennis Kucinich had outraged nearly every segment of the population, and the citizens were trying to have him recalled. The president and five members of the city council were indict ed for accepting bribes from carnival operators. The school board president was arrested for baring his bottom in public...
...principal architect of Cleveland's renaissance is George Voinovich, 44, the Republican former Lieutenant Governor who defeated Kucinich in last year's mayoral election. Voinovich began by patching up relations with the Cleveland business community. He persuaded major firms to donate the services of their top auditors and executives for more than four months to analyze the city's books and management problems. By April, Cleveland had balanced its budget. Voinovich persuaded local banks to refinance $10.5 million in defaulted notes last month, and in effect to loan the city another $25.7 million - both at a fire...
...speaking of former mayors, this is the home of Dennis Kucinich, the beaming boy-mayor who made a lot of enemies and put Cleveland in default before the voters sent him into retirement...
...Cleveland and Philadelphia, a kind of politics of civility triumphed; both cities elected men who presented themselves as healers to succeed loudly abrasive mayors. Cleveland's self-styled populist, Dennis Kucinich, elected in 1977 at the age of 31, won nationwide notoriety for his abusive assaults on the city council, Cleve land's big corporations and banks - and even more for the fact that Cleveland last year became the first major U.S. city since the 1930s to default on debt repayments. Cold-shouldered by the Cleveland Democratic organization and almost beaten in a recall election last year, Kucinich...