Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haunt a legislator who is widely respected. Frank can debate and speak extemporaneously better than almost anyone else in the House, and he tackles some of its more complex problems like immigration and housing. Back home, he makes sure constituents get help from 18 staffers who track down Social Security checks and Medicaid benefits. Though he freely disclosed in 1987 that he was a homosexual, his district, which encompasses the liberal campuses of Boston and nearby blue-collar mill towns, re-elected him overwhelmingly in 1988 with 70% of the vote...
...reason Frank says he revealed his homosexuality was to square his private and public lives, to protect himself from the Gobies of the world who don't abide by the tacit social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
People disappear all the time, but Carsey was unusual, one of those boyish, likable men that Americans like to elect to public office. He had built his college up from almost nothing, his wife was beautiful, and the two (who had no children) were tirelessly social. People depended on "Uncle...
...Washington's help to be truly effective, say the Colombians, it must send butter as well as guns. "We not only need help with the war," says Samper, "we also need funds for peace. Without resources to pay the social debt, the violence will multiply." Most Colombians are convinced the worst is yet to come. Predicts General Miguel Maza Marquez, head of the secret police: "The narcos are not suddenly lying low; they are regrouping...
...incurred more than $2 billion in debt, $6 for every $1 of equity. Some analysts say that next year, with the opening of Trump's Taj Mahal, two of the weaker casinos may go under. "If they can't fend for themselves, how can they possibly meet the greater social goal of an urban renaissance?" asks Anthony Parrillo, director of New Jersey's division of gaming enforcement...