Word: neill
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Harvard University, the largest property ownerin Cambridge, feels that an increase is necessary,said Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice presidentof community affairs. "There has to be a generalrent increase because rents cannot remainstagnant," she said. "Periodic reviews andincreases of rent are needed to maintain some ofthe older buildings in the area...
...history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland is one of the last of the moderate, progressive Republicans; and Tip O'Neill, the Massachusetts Representative and Speaker of the House, is the embodiment of traditional liberalism...
With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. had two political forebears. His father, a Boston city councilman, taught him the give-and-take of local politics: ringing doorbells, listening to constituents, handing out favors. Then, when O'Neill went to Washington in 1953 after winning Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District (John F. Kennedy's old seat), he was adopted by the savvy John McCormack, dean of the Massachusetts delegation and later Speaker of the House. McCormack opened doors for him, and today O'Neill calls his "father-son" relationship with McCormack his "greatest break...
Kennedy stalwarts turned out en masse to send the youngest of the Kennedy political clan to the seat being vacated by retiring House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. with a stylish 71 to 21 percent victory over Republican candidate Clack...