Word: perk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban areas have looked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party and to the Republican party for a home. In Philadelphia they got support from tough talking former Police Chief Frank Rizzo. In Cleveland, the alternative to the primarily black Stokes machine proved to be conservative Republican Ralph Perk. Because of the steady influx of blacks into central cities, these whites are afraid of the proliferation of crime and are looking for law and order candidates...
...that the new brand will not drain sales from the old one. Despite these assurances, the people at GF who are responsible for Sanka's success have strong grounds for coffee nerves, and investors will be interested to see whether internecine warfare in the marketplace will really perk up sales for the company...
...same time he was pandering to anti-black sentiments on the West Side. As it turned out Carney-West, with the result that the combined effort was a dismal failure. A scant three days before the election, the Cleveland Plain Dealer predicted that Carney would edge out Pinkney, with Perk finishing a poor third. What actually occurred was that Perk won handily with 38.7 per cent of the total, beating Pinkney by 16,000 votes. Pseudo-brother Carney finished third with only 28.7 per cent. Carney took 20 per cent of the black vote, but lost to Perk...
...seems fairly obvious that in a race between Pinkney, Perk, and Garofoli. Pinkney would have pulled close to 95 per cent of the black vote as well as a good number of liberal white votes. Since the two conservatives would have competed for the same anti-Stokes votes. Pinkney would have won. In politics you win some and you lose some, but this was one that shouldn't have been lost...
...rode the rapid transit on the way to the airport November 3 with a crowd of West Siders on their way home from work. I happened to catch a glimpse of the headlines of the Cleveland Press, which said it all: "Perk Vows Safe Streets". A series of unique circumstances compounded by Stokes' political myopia permitted the backlash to overwhelm the forces of progress in Cleveland...