Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anne Quinn Ulseth Minneapolis
Under Rookie Coach Pat Quinn, the Flyers have emphasized youth and speed. Quinn salted his lineup with savvy veterans to steady his high-powered youngsters. Second-year Center Ken Linseman, a loudmouthed, 5-ft. 10½-in. blur called "the Rat," anchors the Flyers' top-scoring line, known, naturally, as "the Rat Patrol." Bobby Clarke, 30, captain of Philadelphia's championship teams in the mid-'70s, anchors the entire team. Of his once and future centers, Quinn says: "Since the beginning of the year, we've thought this was a real good blend...
...ships were docking in Boston and they were arriving by the thousands." And they seized control of City Hall, control they never relinquished throughout the first half of the century. The father of House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass) was sewer commissioner, while Eddie Quinn ran the city. In 1941 a coalition of "good government" reformers changed the city again. They amended the city charter, changing the mayoral form of government to a city administration and the ward voting to citywide elections for a council. The move gave the power of the neighborhood politicians to those...
...Henry Quinn of the Red Line Alert, a citizen's coalition opposed to the expansion to Alewife, says Cambridge will not benefit from the extension because the subway will serve only to bring in suburban commuters. "Why should we be the grandest, biggest parking lot that ever existed?" he asks, responding, "That's what will happen to us if we don't do something...
...There was backward thinking in the whole project, so little good can come from it," Quinn says. But he adds that any $600 million project is bound to bring some benefits, and equal amounts of grief to those who are uprooted...