Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS struggle began last December, when Boston Mayor Ray Flynn hired Harvard Professor Charles Willie and Michael Alves, a former head of the state desegregation office, to develop a more flexible desegregation scheme for the city...
...press for more funds. Every year, when lists of which schools are chosen preferentially to others are published, debate over school funding will dominate city news. Every year, minority advocates will have concrete proof where resources need to be targeted, and have ammunition to demand concessions from the Mayor...
City activists have repeatedly called for new foot patrols over the past year, arguing that the growing incidence of drug-related crime in Cambridge made increased protection essential. At last night's meeting, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said the situation had already exceeded acceptable limits in many city neighborhoods...
Councillor Thomas W. Daneh quipped, "Mr. Mayor, do you think the day will come when there is a robot councillor...
Before the last two weeks, the campaign had been relatively free of the racial rancor that had marked recent mayoral elections. Since then, Daley has been accused of being a racist and Sawyer's camp used a videotape in which Daley appears to tell a predominantly white audience that "you want a white mayor...