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Both these areas, South Boston and the Back Bay, lie in the 1st Suffolk District, along with the South End and parts of Roxbury and Dorchester. This diverse district is the scene of an unlikely battle, between eight-term incumbent Senate President William Bulger (D-South Boston) and upstart Republican challenger John DeJong, a Back Bay veterinarian...
...aware of his own vulnerability to the go-go bankers and developers with whom he dealt. More significantly, they insist that Bush did not fall innocently into the clutches of the shrewd operators. Bush, they say, was as enthusiastic as Denver's highflyers in arranging their financing of his upstart JNB oil company, which he had the bad timing to start just after the petroboom had peaked...
Koppelman predicts that by the end of the decade SBK will rank with such now established upstart labels as A&M and Geffen. With their sizzling track record, the two partners expect the company to grow rapidly, even in the face of a sluggish economy. "When people feel good they buy records," says Bandier. "When they are sad they do the same thing...
...enmity between the two runs long and deep. The President still holds the Marcoses responsible for the murder of her husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, who was gunned down at the Manila airport in 1983. Marcos is said to look upon Aquino as an insolent upstart who stole Malacanang Palace from her and the late Ferdinand. "Although they are poles apart when it comes to morality," observes Benigno, "Cory and Imelda are twins when it comes to grit, determination and obstinacy...
...Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...