Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Timilty has a Herculean chore ahead of him if he is to pick up the votes cast in the primary for state rep Melvin H. King and school committee president David Finnegan.
At the time of the strike last spring, B.U. President John R. Silber warned that if faculty members won the salaries they were requesting, B.U. might not have enough money to retain junior professors.
The House voted 215-201 to approve the bill and sent it on to President Carter, who will sign the bill into law as soon as someone finds him a quill pen. Carter has been after this one since 1976, when he traded a promise to create the new agency...
Not everybody was happy about the thirteenth cabinet department, however. President Bok, for one, who has nightmares about further government intervention into university affairs and policies, said the new department will make it easier for the feds to get their hands into campuses.
Timilty probably wouldn't be able to find any more overwhelming issues to run on this year anyway. Busing is done with, despite the political comebacks of Louise Day Hicks and Pixie Palladino, strong performers in the city council and school committee preliminaries. And campaign news will have to fight...