Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer of aid was prompted by the poor education record of Chelsea, whose 52 percent dropout rate is the highest in the state...
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Harold Raynolds said the state board has criticized the plan because of BU's request to be exempt from public meetings and open record laws. "If BU wants public money and public power, they have...to do the public's business in public," he said...
There is also a growing feeling that Barry no longer governs the city. The Post closely followed the mayor for a week and found a record of missed appointments, meetings and ceremonies planned months in advance. The paper also found that Barry was out of the city for 108 days last fiscal year, including a visit to the Virgin Islands. Add this to Barry's notorious reputation for excessive partying and the results are unpleasant, to say the least...
EACH of these incidents alone is forgivable, perhaps even explainable, but taken together they show a disgraceful record and a mayor who is a national embarrassment. Perhaps Barry will avoid indictment again and claim complete vindication. But even the remote possibility that all the incidents have been blown out of proportion by the media does not excuse his laziness, his indifference to propriety and his poor political appointments...
Joyous floor traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange celebrated the end of 1988 with a traditional hand-clap ceremony last week as share prices closed at record levels. But their applause could not drown out the rising furor over a stock scandal that has already toppled several of Japan's leading business and political figures. Not since former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was convicted of taking bribes from Lockheed during the mid-'70s have the Japanese been so shaken by disclosures of official wrongdoing. As the scandal spreads, it threatens to tarnish Japan's image abroad and to undermine...