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...July 29 deadline required candidates to gather at least 50 signatures supporting their bids for two-year terms on the City Council. All nine of the incumbents have been in office since at least 2002, meaning that, if Cambridge voters approve the same slate of candidates yet again, they would be represented by an identical Council through...
...more inclusive Christian curriculum for adolescents led him eight years ago to become a trainer for Rite 13, a program modeled on bar and bat mitzvahs as well as Native American vision quests and African rites of passage. The program began in the early 1990s at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C. Parishioners there were worried that their confirmation ceremonies were functioning more as exit interviews, one last sacrament before 13-year-olds inevitably succumbed to secularism and left the church. The solution, they decided, was a two-year program welcoming adolescents into the community with equal doses...
...part of Wednesday's settlement, Shleifer and Hay agreed to a two-year disbarment by USAID, prohibiting them from participating in any of the agency’s programs. But neither Shleifer nor Hay acknowledged any wrongdoing...
...feelings. Whatever the outcome of the midterm race, it will mark the last election of his tenure and signal the real beginning of the presidential race to succeed him. With wide-open nomination battles all but certain in both major parties, the end of 1986 will usher in a two-year political hullabaloo that will increasingly drown out more measured discussions of how to handle the deficit, taxes and the critical challenges of the nuclear age. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
Banks ordinarily would have been reluctant to extend more money to the debtors. But the Government's support made such big-city institutions as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan more willing to take the chance. Indeed, U.S. banks generally grew healthier in 1985 as they emerged from a two-year crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. Some other U.S. banks, though, had a tumultuous year. More than 115 failed during 1985, the highest number since the Great Depression. Most were small ones buried under a pile of failed farm loans...