Word: mario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he returned to the U.S., he became Whitney Young's protege at the Urban League, where he ran a job-training program. At night he attended law school at St. John's University. There he forged a bond with a teacher the other students considered intimidating, Mario Cuomo. "We had an instant rapport," says Brown. Cuomo, who endorsed Brown's candidacy early on, agrees. When Vernon Jordan took over the Urban League in 1971, he persuaded Brown to move to Washington to take over the organization's office there...
...been hurt by Giuliani's prosecutions of corrupt henchmen, allowed that the 44- year-old prosecutor would be a "very formidable candidate." Alternatively, the politically untested Giuliani might elect to follow in the footsteps of crime buster Thomas Dewey a half-century ago and run for Governor against Democrat Mario Cuomo next year...
Neely put the game away when he took a pass from Steve Kasper and stuffed the puck past Mario Gosselin on the backhand as he was skating past...
...Liberty perched atop the state capitol dome. In recent years the beehive-coiffed Governor, 66, has sent out similar cards showing herself as Uncle Sam, Santa Claus and even Mae West. If the practice catches on among Governors, next Christmas may bring portraits of George Deukmejian as Plato and Mario Cuomo as St. Augustine...
...that is far from the utility's only problem. Six months ago, LILCO made a pact with New York Governor Mario Cuomo to sell Shoreham for $1 to the state, which would then scrap it. In exchange, LILCO was promised generous rate increases to help recover its investment in the plant. The deal may still go through, but last week's verdict brought LILCO face to face with another threat: a $2 billion-to-$4 billion class-action suit on behalf of nearly 1 million customers that could drive it into bankruptcy...