Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House spokesman Mike McCurry, who touted the deal as a "plan of tough love." The District, for example, would no longer receive its annual $660 million federal stipend, and would be required to balance its multi-billion dollar budget by 1998, one year earlier than presently required by Congress. Mayor Marion Barry, who has repeatedly clamored for additional federal assistance, greeted the plan as one that could ?help us become America?s First City...
...Newfield, who ranks Walter O'Malley as the third worst person of this century behind Hitler and Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost in the desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking them to set up a commission to lure the team back. Despite the delirium, cold reality soon set in when city officials reminded everyone that the Mets have a right to block any team from moving into the city. And at a time when both the Mets...
...Svein Harald Folleraas, deputy mayor of the southern Norweigen village of Songdalen, who used the power of speech to vanquish his adversary when he was charged by an angry moose...
...Police Department or the press. In the days before New Year?s, the New York Post ran the tally each day on what looked like a big odometer. Meanwhile, police spent the holidays rounding up wanted wife-batterers and walking the beat outside nightclubs known for violence. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police chief Howard Safir (along with former chief William Bratton) are eagerly taking credit for the decline. Though previous Mayor David Dinkins deserves some credit for putting more cops on the beat, Giuliani allowed Bratton to do something Dinkins would never have approved: use those cops to crack down...
...Police Department or the press. In the days before New Year?s, the New York Post ran the tally each day on what looked like a big odometer. Meanwhile, police spent the holidays rounding up wanted wife-batterers and walking the beat outside nightclubs known for violence. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police chief Howard Safir (along with former chief William Bratton) are eagerly taking credit for the decline. Though previous Mayor David Dinkins deserves some credit for putting more cops on the beat, Giuliani allowed Bratton to do something Dinkins would never have approved: use those cops to crack down...