Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call it Broadway, and some of the stores have been here 50 years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird in Lorain--"ugliest cars they've ever built," says the mayor of Lorain as he sits atop the town's city hall, a white stucco and glass Emerald City in the midst of chipping brick and decaying concrete...
...David are the kind of people that make Joseph Zieba, attorney at law and Republican county chairman, stop chewing his gum for just a minute and smile his Hoover smile. Zieba's been getting a lot of calls this year from Democrats, giving the gray inflatable elephant perched atop his law files a lot to smile about. "Even Eisenhower didn't carry Lorain," Zieba says, but things are looking up this year. The Puerto Ricans (almost 18 per cent of Lorain) and the Blacks are "lackadaisical voters who've put all their eggs in Carter's basket...
...victory, Buffalo's first at home over New England since 1975, left the two teams tied atop the American Conference's East Division with 6-2 records...
...this contest needs anything more to generate interest, consider this: the Ivy League championship may be on the line. Pre-season favorite Dartmouth won its only league game this year before three straight losses to outsider foes. And Harvard stands atop everyone, 2-0 in the League, 4-0 overall...
Outside, the secret service caravan revved up. Blue flashing lights whipped slowly atop wood-paneled Ford station wagons. Carter moved on to his next stop along this Atlantic Coast swing. Kennedy will be travelling with him, and chances are, whether in Brooklyn or Bayonne, the Carter road show will maintain its high level of technical excellence and flexibility. For the next two and a half weeks, barring a return of the hostages from Iran or unexpected Middle East settlements, Jimmy Carter will abandon the White House for the stage, the lights, the crowds. He will certainly need...