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...SOLUTION WAS to reopen the lines of City Hall-to-neighborhood communication first used by the now neglected little city halls. White realized that every decision taken on such local levels has political implications, the touch is to make the decisions spread the mayor's political capital most effectively. It's a process whereby White's political operatives convince people the mayor is looking out for their special interests and the mayor's workers keep in touch with the pulse of the electorate...
...Forty years of shadowy existence" was how President Bok described the period at the most recent dedication ceremonies at the museum. He added that he was "ashamed" that the University had waited until 1982 to reopen this plucky little institution...
...President Leonid Brezhnev broached a topic that was of concern not only in Tashkent, 240 miles from the Chinese border, but also in Peking and Washington. In an obvious attempt to exploit the currently uncertain state of U.S.-China relations, Brezhnev announced that the Soviet Union was prepared to reopen talks with China to reduce the tensions that have existed between the Communist rivals for more than two decades...
...rent board, after originally deciding to apply the rent correction only to future charges, moved 10 days ago to reopen the case because of a precedent involving retroactive rent corrections. Board member Alfred Cohn said that in at least one case where tenants had been charged too little because of a miscalculation, they had been ordered to pay the full difference retroactively...
...attorney Daniel Polvere told the board in a memorandum that a decision in favor of a retroactive correction by Harvard would open "a Pandora's box out of which would fly many other petitions to reopen cases...