Word: schundler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bret D. Schundler '81, mayor of Jersey City, N.J., and Native American rights activist Winona LaDuke '80 were also selected as budding national leaders...
...Urban reformers from both parties have fixed on programs grounded in austerity, responsibility, safer streets and the wooing of business through lower taxes. Managers rather than politicians, they apply private-sector solutions to chronic urban woes and switch over to the technocratic jargon without pause. Such savants include Bret Schundler of Jersey City, New Jersey, Frank Jordan of San Francisco, and Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis, Indiana, the so-called Prince of Privatization, who refers to his citizens as "customers." Goldsmith believes in "marketizing" his city -- making every sector of it more competitive. He adds, "We have to ratchet down costs...