Word: silberstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill has some pretty tough opponents," said Pamela M. Silberstein, the legislative assistant to State Rep. Mark Roosevelt (D-Boston), the bill's major House proponent...
...Silberstein said ratification has been stalled by amendments that are being proposed on the senate floor. Among them include an amendment to have the bill placed on a non-binding referendum in the 1988 election, exempting owners of three-family homes from the bill, and exempting teachers who promote the practice of homosexuality in the classroom from the discriminatory provisions...
...more radical proposals that did not make it on to the bill yesterday was an amendment that would have required homosexuals to record their names at a state bureau like the registry of motor vehicles, Silberstein said...
During law school in 1962, Boesky married Seema Silberstein, the daughter of Ben Silberstein, a real estate tycoon. After Boesky had made several stabs at starting a career, the young couple decided to move to New York City, where Silberstein set them up in a Park Avenue apartment. Boesky found a calling at last on Wall Street, where he landed a job as a stock analyst at the L.F. Rothschild investment firm. In 1975, when Boesky started his first arbitrage firm with $700,000 in capital, the Silberstein fortune helped bankroll...