Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than two decades, blacks in New York City watched longingly as African-American mayors took control of a score of major cities. Though they constituted Gotham's second largest ethnic group, blacks had not won a single citywide office. Last week they finally exulted in a triumph of their own. Drawing support from what he called a "gorgeous mosaic" of black, Hispanic and white voters, David Dinkins edged out former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani to succeed three-term Mayor Edward Koch...
...best lessons Robinson learned, he said, came from the 1987 mayors' conference when Mayor Jerry Abramson of Louisville, Ky., told him about "Mayor's night in, mayor's night out." This technique involves scheduling times for citizens to come to City Hall and for the mayor to go out into the community on a regular basis...
When Abramson was a newly elected mayor and attending the conference, he said the best advice he got was that the most important member of his staff--and the person he had to select most carefully--was his appointment scheduler, because this would be the person deciding how he handled his time...
Other participants in the conference are Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph Riley, who is scheduled to speak today about how to deal with a disaster like Hurricane Hugo, and Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, who will speak tomorrow on drugs and crime...
Robinson said of the seminar, "The timing's excellent because it allowed me, at a time when I was very receptive, to receive timely and pertinent information about how to be a mayor...