Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman as a candidate for Vice...
...simple, conveyed in a 30-second spot. In 1980 the Republicans were able to outspend the Democrats $152 million to $98 million, and their television ads were particularly effective. One of the meanest showed a Tip O'Neill look-alike driving a long black Lincoln Continental that ran...
...baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later, a punk rocker named Jello Biafra ran for mayor and finished fourth among ten candidates. Rudyard Kipling wrote that San Francisco was "a mad city-inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty." He liked it. Other American cities had their rambunctious phases, but San Francisco (pop. 706,000) never...
Boom Boom's "order," which consists of about 20 other "nuns" who go by names like Sister Mary Media and Sister Sadie Sadie Rabbi Lady, has performed legitimate charity work by raising funds for AIDS victims and gay Cuban refugees. Fertig ran for the board of supervisors in 1982; with five seats open, he placed a respectable eighth, collecting 23,124 votes. Even some gays find it offensive when he wears a cross as part of his costume or mocks the sacred. But Fertig insists that he is genuinely, if not conventionally, pious. "The sisters share my own sense...
Since Argentine President Raul Alfonsin came to power seven months ago, he has been striving to bring to account the generals who ran the country for nearly eight years. But his efforts to prosecute military men for the human rights abuses that led to the deaths of at least 10,000 Argentines has led to growing dissension within the army. Last week Alfonsin moved to quash the opposition to his civilian government by ousting four top generals...