Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precincts of Cambridge's Ward 6, voters consistently referred to a sense of duty when asked why they were casting ballots...
WASHINGTON: Alan Greenspan gave the House Banking Committee a tour Wednesday through the hospital ward that is the global economy, and once you untangle what committee chairman James Leach laughingly called "international banking-ese," the Fed chairman sounded a lot like Patton. While acknowledging that the modern ultra-connected economy is less forgiving than at any other time in history, Greenspan chastised both borrowers and lenders for irresponsibility and bad risk assessment, attacked the nonparticipation strategy of China and India (and by association Malaysia), and in general told the ailing: Quit whining and clean up your economic acts, and free...
...Building a Safe Community] was something that was necessary, though it's not anything someone's going to look for-ward to," says Carrie L. Shuchart...
Williams had also been careful to conduct community meetings (more than 150 in all) to explain his austerity measures in plain language. A draft-Williams movement began--not in a white establishmentarian's home this time, but in struggling Ward 7. In May, after months of saying he wouldn't run, he decided to go for it. The campaign, so far, has been a dream. Contributions flow in like lobbyists into Congress. Williams' main primary opponents are three longtime council members forced to answer at every stop for the various crises the city suffered. Last week opponents began raising 11th...
Williams has hired an important black activist, Phillip Pannell, as an adviser, and Pannell opened a campaign office in Ward 8, Barry's home turf. Williams also sought and won the endorsements of two key Barry confidants. Williams is on a roll now. Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch. At the basketball-court forum, he patted shoulders and grabbed forearms--physical gestures once uncomfortable to him. And he's telling a more personal story. He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over...