Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci resigned his job with the state Department of Corporations and Taxation last month, but the controversy surrounding his alleged "no-show" spot on the state payroll has continued up to election time. The affair has prompted an investigation and disciplinary action by tax officials, a feud among Boston area newspapers and cries of foul play from both supporters and opponents of the 63-year-old mayor...
...into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation as a rising political star (he had already made a name for himself as a perennial School Committee candidate) that he arranged the tax department job on the spot." Paul Dever was a fine man," Vellucci concludes...
...teams, including Ball State, McNeese State and Fullerton State, and gives point spreads for their games. Texas is at the top of his poll, as the Longhorns boast an ability rating of 35.87, while Harvard is ranked 120th with a rating of -1.37 and Davidson is in the 153rd spot, with...
...Governments committed to the fight against international terrorism must impose burdens on their citizens and insist that other governments do the same," Walzer said. He added that, in addition to "universal condemnation," governments must be "willing to use force on the spot...
...career pupated more quickly. Johns appeared in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, a reclusive young Southerner from Augusta, Ga., who had been surviving in virtual isolation in Manhattan since 1952. With his paintings of targets and of the American flag, he landed on point, in the spot, at centerstage: the Museum of Modern Art bought three paintings from that first show, an unheard-of gesture to an unknown painter, and the acquisitive frenzy and the search for bankable geniuses that would characterize the American art world in the '60s began in earnest...