Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city manager tightened things up--jobs are important, and issues play a secondary role for most voters in East Cambridge, Vellucci's stronghold. "There's another playground I helped put into the neighborhood. Isn't that what a city councilor should do?" he says. On a less benign level, there probably have been as many Velluccis working for the city, state and county as Cabots and Saltonstalls have gone to Harvard...
...American medical school?if only given the chance. My grades and admission test scores have been as good as those of many students studying in U.S. schools. Like my colleagues, I have spent every vacation doing clinical electives in the U.S. and have per? formed at a level deemed competent by various professors...
...died the following year, he got the desk back as well. He has not had to swap it since. But that is not to say he would not ? if the quid were worth the quo. Russell Long has raised the art of political horse trading to the highest level in living congressional memory. An unabashed wheeler-dealer, he scratches backs with a fine, silken stroke, then calls in his debts with a firm arm twist. He also repays his own lous with interest. "I gave Russell a vote he wanted," recalls a Democratic liberal, "and I've been sipping...
...plain that television, long considered more of a weapon for a President than for his adversaries, is double-edged. Dissent on almost any level ricochets instantly from the far reaches of the nation to the Oval Office. Presidential TV Aide Rick Neustadt says that in the old days a President could make a controversial announcement in the afternoon and know there could be no public answers on television until the next day: to set up cameras and process and edit film took too long to make the evening news. But new technology has made instant response a fact. Carter...
...Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done for the past ten years, he will spend the winter in Florida cutting sugar cane ?backbreaking ground-level work that makes the loftier labor of apple picking seem easy by comparison...