Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Deutch says, the firm is representing a Harvard "instructor" who was denied housing in Boston because of his race...
This year, however, the situation is different. For the first time since 1961, three of the council's nine members have decided not to seek re-election. As a result, the council race is wide open. In 1989, more than any other year in recent memory, your vote will make a difference...
...Senate campaign every six years. Glenn, who was carrying a $2 million debt from his 1984 presidential bid, solicited $200,000 from Keating for a political committee he controlled. Cranston ! solicited $850,000 from Keating in 1987 and 1988 for voter-registration drives. In Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party $85,000. Of the need for campaign money, Cranston says, "I have tried to change that situation but have been unsuccessful." Incumbents, however, don't try as hard as they might, since the high cost of elections...
...early days, the Times often misstepped. Wire copy on Moon's conviction for tax evasion was doctored. The newsroom became a revolving-door workplace, with constant turnover and inexperienced staffers. During last year's presidential race, the Times, pursuing a rumor about Michael Dukakis' receiving psychiatric treatment, twisted a quote from Dukakis' sister-in-law to manufacture a headline: DUKAKIS KIN HINTS AT SESSIONS. Two reporters quit in protest...
...commercial banker took deposits and made loans. He was not, Lewis learned, "any more trouble than Dagwood Bumstead. He had a wife, a station wagon, 2.2 children and a dog that brought him his slippers." An investment banker, on the other hand, was a "member of a master race of deal makers" who "possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition. If he had a dog, it snarled. He had two little red sports cars yet wanted four." The trainee opted for avarice...