Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of the death last summer of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias from cocaine intoxication and the crisis in sports revenue that many smaller schools are facing, the Ivy League philosophy seems to be on the upswing, according to some athletic officials...
...Characteristically, he puts his victory in emotional perspective: "If you just do it the way you really believe it should be done, there is some justice." (His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not fare so well in her bid for Congress. She lost to incumbent Maryland Republican Helen Delich Bentley, 41% to 59%.) Kennedy has been faulted for his impulsive nature; he is no intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing." A close friend notes, "He's incredibly competitive. Imagine racing...
...FACES IN THE SENATE "THE GOOD MOUTH" "WE ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC WOMAN NAMED BARBARA AND SOMEBODY NAMED MIKULSKI, AND THE SENATE WON'T BE THE SAME FROM NOW ON!" THUS CROWED THE MARYLAND WINNER, A 4-FT. 11-IN. BUNDLE OF ENERGY WITH A VOICE LIKE A BALTIMORE HARBOR FOGHORN, ON ELECTION NIGHT. THE VICTORY CELEBRATION WAS INDEED HISTORIC: BARBARA MIKULSKI, 50, % THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF POLISH IMMIGRANTS, HAD SWEPT PAST REPUBLICAN LINDA CHAVEZ, 61% TO 39%, TO BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE DEMOCRAT...
Ronald Reagan, who campaigned in Maryland to defeat her, called Mikulski a "wily liberal." He was only half right. Liberal, certainly. Mikulski, a former social worker, got her start in politics almost 20 years ago by organizing a coalition of blacks and ethnics to block construction of a 16- lane highway that would have destroyed their homes. In five years on the Baltimore city council and five terms in Congress, she has defined her special constituencies as blue-collar workers, women, children and the aged...
...their citizenship, but they have invested in the U.S. By selling half their Seagram stock during the 1960s, Edward and Peter multiplied their assets into controlling interests in more than 100 companies with an estimated total value of more than $30 billion. In the U.S., those holdings include the Maryland-based Rouse Co. (1985 revenues: $247 million) and California's Ernest Hahn real estate...