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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after his election defeat, Dukakis outlines his goals for the second half of his gubernatorial term. He lashes out at critics of his fiscal policy but offers no concrete plan to rescue the state from its growing fiscal problems. Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, considered by many to be a top contender for the governership in 1990, announces that he will not be candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Cambridge to Washington | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...City Council votes 7-1 to extend until 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. Healy, the city's top administrator. The new contract includes a controversial "buy-out" clause, requiring the city to pay Healy even if the council removes him from his post, and several councillors argue that the move gives the city manager too much power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Cambridge to Washington | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Some observers say that the government chose a selective northeastern college and a top California public school for its first reviews in response to those reports. Education Department spokesperson Gary L. Curran has said only that the reviews were prompted by media reports, internal government notations and other informal sources...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Harvard Admissions Reviewed | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Always 'One the Top...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Holding On, Speaking Out, Moving Up | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Even in high school, whether as student body president or head of every student group he participated in, Ocasio always emerged "on the top," she says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Holding On, Speaking Out, Moving Up | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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