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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Camp Hill State Correction Institution in Camp Hill, Pa. Retired employees from the Time Inc. Information Systems group tutored adults at the Chicago Public Library. ATC Cablevision employees worked to improve the reading skills of city workers in Charlotte, N.C., and of adults in Orlando, and Southern Progress magazines "adopted" Lewis Elementary School in Birmingham...
...fair to say that to almost all Americans the name Kennedy represents all the Democratic Party should be--innovation, progress and vigah. To many, Joseph Kennedy, the first in the newest generation of America's royal family to run for public office, is the hope of the Eighth Congressional District to recapture its past glory. President John F. Kennedy once held the seat and for more than three decades Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House, has represented the district. Joe Kennedy doesn't need any fancy commercials to create a persona; he was born with...
...dream of it, is the message of the land. Because the country is inside you: better or worse as you are better or worse; fairer, saner, kinder as you are any of those things. At night lie still and feel the struggles of your countrymen to make the progress of the nation fit the progress of their souls. They celebrate themselves and sing themselves...
...each Monday, Cuomo directs a senior-staff meeting of some 30 people. At one recent session, the subject of Medicaid comes up. An aide says that his administration has reached an impasse. "Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress. None of that." After the meeting, in his office, Cuomo will punch out telephone calls himself. He rings the mayor of Niagara Falls. He is out. He calls his son Andrew, a shrewd 28-year-old lawyer who ran Cuomo's campaign for Governor and is in many ways his father's alter...
...surge of support from his party's power brokers following the seven-nation economic summit in Tokyo last month to pave the way toward an unprecedented third term. Instead, he was widely denounced for his handling of the meeting. His vaunted friendship with President Reagan produced no progress on stabilizing the yen, which has risen more than 30% against the dollar since September, cutting into the competitiveness of Japanese exports. After lobbying for rigid caps on currency fluctuations, Nakasone reluctantly went along with the other summit leaders and agreed to a vague system of monitoring exchange rates. To make matters...