Word: welds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Weld served as governor from 1990 through July 1997. During that time he pleased voters by cutting the state budget without increasing taxes...
...political profile is just what was called for in the times," says Mitchell Adams '66, who worked on two Weld campaigns, in 1978 and 1990, and is now the Massachusetts Revenue Commissioner...
...Weld's small-government philosophy appealed to Bay State residents in 1990. Former Governor Michael Dukakis had left the state, in Weld's words, "a fiscal Beirut." In September 1990 the state's bond rating, the lowest in the nation, dropped again...
...Weld then won the November election with a call for entrepreneurial government. During his tenure on Beacon Hill, Weld eliminated a $2.3 billion state deficit and ushered in more than 19 tax cuts for Massachusetts voters...
Seventy-one percent of these voters showed their satisfaction by re-electing Weld...