Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enjoyed it very much," said Emile Beaulieu, mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire who also attended the seminar in 1981. "Some of the new ideas that came up this year were good...
...when New York City Mayor Edward Koch ordered social workers to begin rounding up the homeless mentally ill last month, Brown was the first person picked up and forcibly committed to Bellevue Hospital. The diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia. Brown, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, contested her "incarceration." Last week she won the first round in what promises to be a landmark court battle over the rights of the homeless, many of whom suffer from psychiatric disorders...
...test case. Under pressure to deal with derelicts who freeze in the shadows of Manhattan's luxury skyscrapers, Koch met Brown last spring on a tour with other city officials. When he was told that she could not legally be committed unless she was in imminent danger, the mayor replied, "You're loony yourself." He went on to make Brown a cause celebre in speeches and interviews...
...build better tires, cheaper, and sell them harder," but it diversified into oil and gas, started building an expensive pipeline, dropped $214 million and was losing tire sales to the South Koreans. Goodyear survived only with the help of favorable legislation, and when the battle was over Akron's mayor expressed the local sentiments by saying, "We kicked that slimy bastard out." But Goldsmith ended with a profit of $93 million, and Goodyear adopted many of his ideas for a return to profitability...
...from Manila. Sulu's capital, Jolo, has deteriorated markedly even though it gave Aquino 95% of its votes during her run for the presidency. Violent local feuds often flare, and for three months the city has had no electricity. Muslim secessionists threaten to break out in open warfare. Says Mayor Aminkadra Abubakar: "Every day I send ((Aquino)) a letter and a telegram, reminding her of what ought to be done here. I never get a direct reply...