Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn, 48, is seeking his second term as mayor of the nation's 20th-largest city and hub of the country's 10th-largest metropolitan area. Tierney, 46, is making his first run for the $100,000-a-year job after 16 years on the City Council, 10 years as its president...
...read. Senator Ted wants to set up pilot tutoring programs at fine Massachusetts colleges to form the model for a national campaign. Bank of Boston has offered $5,000 grants to each of five schools to start up the programs which will offer students up to six credits a term to work as tutors in schools and community agencies. Me think its a very good idea. Our school kids need a little help with their "readin 'n' writin' 'n' 'rithmetic" too. The Story got me to thinkin' about all the money problems 'n' red tape the kids up in Phillip...
...Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...
...figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with a disarming smile...
...sort of electoral verdict that sitting Presidents dread. In balloting that is certain to complicate the life of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin between now and the end of his six-year term in 1989, the opposition Peronists captured 16 of the 21 governorships at stake and swept away the ruling Radical Civic Union's absolute majority in the 254-seat lower house of Congress. The Radicals now hold 117 seats, the Peronists an unnerving...