Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President met with 87 state and local officials from the Northeast and took a swipe at the New York financial community for fearing that his proposed tax cuts will spur inflation. Over the past few weeks, skepticism on Wall Street toward the Administration's program has sent bond prices plunging. Said Reagan: "They're sitting there watching anything they think may change the interest rates and bond market. I think that they're looking through a very narrow glass." The President also mentioned that "silent Calvin Coolidge" was one of his favorite Chief Executives because...
Among the converted is Margaret Reavey, 25, a public housing office receptionist in Gateshead, on the northeast coast, who became a Marxist in sympathy for the miners' strike that helped topple the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1974. "You don't go to bed at night and wake up a Marxist," explains Reavey. "It comes through experience. I disliked what Heath and the Tories stood...
...career. There is a "Bible college" list, a list of students interested in West Point or Annapolis, even a list of Missouri women who hope to become engineers. The student most often sought, though, according to the College Board's Darrell Morris, "is likely to be from the Northeast, in the upper third of his high school class, with verbal scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test between 400 and 600, intending to major in the liberal arts...
Frederick Hammer, executive vice president in charge of consumer banking at Chase Manhattan, recalls a less happy case: "I brought in a very bright M.B.A. from a highly regarded business school in the Northeast not too long ago, and after a superb performance in a staff position, I was so impressed that I gave him complete responsibility for a small business. He had his own sales force, accounting people, processing group-everything. For about six months I was very pleased with the reports I was getting about how rapidly the business was expanding. As we started to do some more...
...strong third-place performance last week in the Radcliffe Regatta, the women's sailing team, led by skippers Lauren Norton and Ronnie Sebok, will travel to Naragansett Bay near Providence this weekend to compete in the Northeast championships...