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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your first year in office, you established Connecticut's first income tax, clashed with legislators by vetoing four attempts to overturn the levy, and in the process discovered that many residents hate you. Any regrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gutsiest Governor In America: LOWELL WEICKER | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Ferraro added that this election season will be crucial to the pro-choice movement. The Supreme Court is expected to decide this year on a case that could overturn the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade, which gave states greater freedom to determine the legality of abortion...

Author: By June Shih, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Pro-Choice Marchers Converge on D.C. | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...addition, Clark defended the school'sdecision to offer tenure to two visiting scholars,stating that last spring the admissions committeevoted to overturn the policy...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesting Law Students Get Boost From Jackson | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...School officials maintain that the admissions committee voted to overturn this policy last year, after two Black female visiting professors were not granted tenure. Mnookin and Weiler have both left the Law School and would not have been affected by the policy...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Profs Slated for Tenure | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

...leadership to help. His education proposals came late and lacked the requisite funding--ditto for his bare-bones health care "policy." He has tightened the definition of wetlands and threatened to authorize off-shore drilling. He has nominated right-wingers to the Supreme Court who will try to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Bill Clinton | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

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