Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is not Springfield's problem; it is a societal problem," Mayor Bill Morrisette told a gathering last week, addressing his town's new fear. "We've spent lots to build new lockups, and we've taken the money out of school systems. We can deal with troubled youth. We must seize the moment...
...Londonderry wants to be known as the city of peacemakers. The citizens have moved well ahead of the rest of the country in trying to promote understanding and tolerance between Catholics and Protestants. "People have been worn down by violence," says Mayor Martin Bradley. "They now realize that there is no need for it, and see the economic benefit for living together." The look of the city reflects the relative tranquillity. Gone are the bleak tenements in the Catholic Bogside and Protestant Fountain areas, which were free-fire zones in the '70s and '80s. In their place is substantial, even...
Last week New York was celebrating. The mayor declared David Wells Day--which was surprising, because the way the mayor has been acting lately, a lot of people expected him to declare Rudolph Giuliani Day, featuring David Wells...
...Jurassic Park raptors; even a wink at the Coneheads ("Where'd you find that guy?" "He's from France"). Critical reaction at early screenings has been mixed. But for a surefire blockbuster like this, reviewers be damned! The film even taunts the critics with a brazen in-joke: the mayor of New York City is a hothead named Ebert, whose campaign symbol is a big thumbs...
...first wife to sign an affidavit saying it was her adultery that broke up the marriage, and he got his wife-to-be, former Miss America Tara Dawn Holland, to swear that she is a virgin "saving herself for marriage." He attacked his opponent, Lincoln's Mayor Mike Johanns, over nudity on a public TV station in Lincoln that the mayor doesn't control...