Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...served as mayor of Lawrence, N.Y., from...
...other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex, unless they agree to pay the higher wage to their waiters, janitors, hot-dog vendors and others. Last week even G.O.P. mayor Richard Riordan, seeking a $12 billion airport expansion, gave in to pressure from a labor-clergy alliance and extended the living wage to 2,500 airport bag checkers and security guards...
...Tuesday's episode of "Spin City," in which for no good reason all the characters were dressed for a costume party, Michael J. Fox, as deputy mayor Mike Flaherty, burst out of a telephone booth in a Superman suit and cape. The symbolism might have been unintentional, but it was certainly striking: after announcing two weeks ago that he has been afflicted with Parkinson's Disease for the past seven years, the 37-year-old actor seemed as healthy and funny as ever--and like the real Superman, Christopher Reeve, who has been a vocal activist for the rights...
...defense argues that state law defines only a minimum standard for health benefits and the mayor is within his rights to allocate further city funds as he wishes...
Tony R. Doherty, one of the plaintiffs and a resident of Jamaica Plain, said he could not understand the mayor's action and thought it was the result of political pressure...