Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would not describe the inclinations of Henrietta Davis and Lawrence Weinstein '71, except to say Davis' vote would be unpredictable...
According to veteran School Committee member Alfred B. Fantini, three members are leaning towards interim superintendent Mary Lou McGrath, who has worked for the school department since 1956. He added that a fourth and decisive vote may even be hers in a few days...
Fantini said the vote would be a difficult one for him. As a lifelong Cambridge resident, he said, "I believe in in-house candidates and coming up through the ranks." But he added that in the next 15 years, the city schools "will be challenged like no other school system has been in the country...
WORLD: By a resounding vote, the U. N. deplores Washington' s decision to deny a visa to Yasser Arafat...
...been hard won. In the early years, Gray was considered a radical and troublemaker. "I'd go to meetings and get so mad I'd yell and turn the place out," she says. Politicians tried to block her plans, so Gray used a tool no politician can ignore: votes. In 1976 she organized and registered to vote 12,000 public-housing tenants. As chairman of the citywide public-housing board, Gray is now a local political power of the first order. The success at Kenilworth-Parkside hasn't come without struggle. Poverty can % drive out hope, and Gray admits that...