Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LoPresti won Winthrop handily, thanks in part to the effort of his Winthrop precinct captain Charles P. Warwick, who has spent 30 hours a week organizing campaign workers...
Tribe said the committee also spent much of the summer gathering input from students and alumni...
Both candidates have their roots in the old school of local Democrats. Howe is a fiery old-time Somerville pol with 23 years of experience and a host of allies. Vellucci has spent six years in office and a lifetime in local politics as the son of Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci...
Planning for HOLLIS began in December 1980. Named in part after the family that donated Hollis Hall, the system is based on a program that Harvard bought from Northwestern University and spent years customizing. Although the total cost of creating and implementing the system has not been calculated, much of the funding came from a 1983 grant of $1.2 million from the Pew Memorial Trust. HOLLIS first went on-line in 1985 when the libraries began using it to keep track of new acquisitions...
...percentage of late arrivals (as high as 50%). Virtually every day some routes got no buses at all. To untangle the mess, Houston voters in 1978 approved a special 1% tax on retail sales to help pay for a modern transit system. Since then the city has spent $790 million to upgrade service, adding 789 new buses, 20 park-and-ride lots, 750 sheltered bus stops and five new maintenance shops. Houston now boasts a highly efficient transit system that the American Public Transit Association ranks as the safest in the U.S. The buses are on schedule...