Word: michael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEVENTY YEARS AGO Boston consisted of several petty fiefdom controlled by ward-level political machines. Martin "Mahatma" Lomasney in the West End, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the North End, and James Michael Curley himself, patriarch of the South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate...
During the talks Carter will have at his side only Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; the other leaders will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
...inflation moderating to a 5.5% pace. Schultze ticked off "the signs of stronger performance of the private economy": home building is surging (TIME, May 2); consumer spending has quickened generally; to keep pace with sales, businessmen will need to rebuild inventories, and that will require more production. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal added, "There is every indication we will be reaching our unemployment target of less than 7% before the end of the year [The rate was 7.3% in March]. Pulling out the rebate does not leave a gap." Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget, warned...
Pope John XXIII opened the way to a reunification of Anglicans and Catholics when he invited the Archbishop of Canterbury, then Geoffrey Fisher, to Rome in 1960. In 1966 Archbishop Michael Ramsey visited Pope Paul, but the present visit of Donald Coggan has been hailed in Vatican circles as a particularly significant milestone on the road to eventual unity...
...horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough?especially as Python Michael Palin plays...