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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marion Barry Jr., Mayor of Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Kwame Ture | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...This is quite a Christmas present," said Harlan Nelson, then mayor of Albert Lea, Minn., on that December day in 1990 when he learned that a closed factory in the town would reopen. "Fairy tales do come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...What's a mayor to do? A major employer wants to expand or build anew. Rather than simply doing so, the corporation stirs up a bidding war to see which city and state will pony up the most cash, loans and tax breaks in the form of economic incentives. If you're the mayor and the facility means jobs and income for your town, do you play hardball and risk losing the plant and the jobs? Or do you give in and hand out tax money, only to face a never-ending string of similar demands from others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Five Ways Out | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Next, in January 1994, New Jersey's newly elected Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, and New York's new mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, both Republicans, promised to end the border war. "We're not interested in stealing from each other," Whitman said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Five Ways Out | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Sorrento, who lives in Everett, said he was "flabbergasted" by the gesture, and thanked the city council, the mayor, Crimson editors past and present and his family...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Mayor Names City Corner for Sorrento | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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