Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaky on the whole thing,' said formerTent City Mayor Evelyr Parks. She said MITofficials implied they would not satisfy TentCity's demands for use of the three MIT-ownedhouses on Blanche Street that are part of theUniversity Park Development Plan. The houses,which have been vacant for 14 years, have been thefocus of Tent City residents' protests...
...former "Today Show" host confidently and frequently cut off the 12 men likely to be the next leader of the free world. Contrast that with his obsequious behavior on t.v. the night before with Mikhail Gorbachev--a telegenic and articulate Mayor Daleytype--and you get an idea who's a bigger ratings draw and why Judge Robert Bork has some misgiving about the First Amendment. "I see," Brokaw would say, nodding with an impressed smile to Gorbachev answers like "We have eliminated the exploitation of man by man. We have no unemployed!" to such questions as "Why are there...
Mary Nee, Director of the Mayor's Office of Capital Planning, said open spaces included everything from schoolyards to highway median strips, and that the city should include all of these areas in its open space plan...
Koch has declared himself "chagrined and mortified that this kind of corruption could exist and I did not know of it." His ignorance may have been willful: during his first campaign for mayor, Koch, running as a reformer, secretly solicited the support of Meade Esposito, Brooklyn's powerful Democratic boss. Then, as mayor, Koch appointed Esposito's pal Anthony Ameruso as transportation commissioner, even though an advisory board had declared Ameruso unqualified. The transportation department went on to become the source of major scandals. Ameruso has been convicted of perjury, Esposito of corruption in a separate case. The mayor, says...
...convictions by his office alone. Some targets were Koch's closest friends -- notably Donald Manes, president of the borough of Queens, who killed himself last year as the net tightened around him, and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, Koch's ever present companion during his first race for mayor in 1977. The former Miss America faces trial for bribing a judge to reduce the divorce settlement of her lover Carl Capasso, a rich sewer contractor now serving four years in prison for income tax evasion...