Word: mayoral
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...Committee chose as its new superintendent an outsider—Jeffrey M. Young, head of Newton Public Schools—over longtime Cambridge resident and Interim Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk. The school committee voted 5-2 for Young, who is white, in a public meeting last night, with only Mayor E. Denise Simmons and Alfred F. Fantini supporting Turk, who is black. The decision marks the end of a nationwide search that began in December, one month after former Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn’s early departure. The choice polarized those present, with some of Turk?...
...depends if they're ready to give $50, 60, 70, 80 million. There's a lot of potholes out here.' RICHARD M. DALEY, mayor of Chicago, on whether he would accept KFC's offer to fund street repairs in his city, after the restaurant chain donated $3,000 to Louisville...
...inhuman nature in the cold numbers of capitalism, that's what stuns you.' LASZLO VARNAI, mayor of Kiskunhalas, Hungary, on the closing of the town's Levi Strauss & Co. plant, once a successful symbol of Western capitalism in the ex-Soviet nation...
...Task force member and local resident Harry Mattison had also raised concerns after last week’s meeting that Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino was no longer holding firm to his requests for Harvard to provide more detailed information and plans regarding its science complex construction slowdown. Menino had sent a letter to University President Drew G. Faust in late February with specific dates for information requests, most within 30 to 60 days...
...Michael F. Glavin, the BRA’s deputy director for institutional development, said that the Mayor has the right to grant some flexibility in the specific deadlines, provided that real progress is being made on the issues listed in his letter, and that Harvard is acting in good faith within a reasonable time frame...