Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...pale alongside the beach-sunned office workers, Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...
...retracted the statement, but Javits has not retracted his statements that D'Amato is "temperamentally unsuited to be a Senator" and "dangerous." While Javits favors a "harder stance" on military preparation, he claims to be the moderate between two extremists. Many believe that D'Amato--the product of Nassau county's entrenched political machine--defeated Javits only by making the 76-year-old Senator's age a major campaign issue...
...himself as the candidate of the overtaxed and under-appreciated middle class, an average guy in contrast to the intellectual Javits and the Harvard-educated Holtzman. The man who once stood next to Howard Jarvis at a rally and promised to lead the-fight for a Proposition 13 in Nassau County is now promising to lead the Senate fight for Reagan's tax-slashing policies. A vehement opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion, D'Amato, it seems, would prefer to keep women in the kitchen: he even sent his mother to Buffalo supermarkets with recipes for "the forgotten...
...Amato's key asset, his rise is part of a larger demographic trend: the growth of suburbia. While Tammany Hall and other political machines traditionally were linked to the close, contentious atmosphere of the city neighborhood, D'Amato's power base is concentrated in the two sprawling counties, Nassau and Suffolk, that make up Long Island. Nassau County turns out more votes than any other county while Suffolk view with Manhattan for fourth place...
...presiding supervisor of Hempstead Town, D'Amato is chief of a huge patronage organization, To get a job as a lifeguard, a garbage collector, or a Long Island Railroad conductor in Nassau County one must be a registered Republican. A decade ago D'Amato was implicated in a scheme that required county employees to kickback 1 per cent of their salaries for the party. And just yesterday the Village Voice revealed that for years D'Amato's father had a no-show job on the Hampstead Town payroll...