Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buses and vans. Magic Mountain, an amusement park 45 minutes north of Los Angeles, runs a bus during the summer that carries teenagers to work from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Allstate Insurance operates 54 van routes to bring 600 employees to its headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook from their homes as far away as southern Wisconsin and northern Indiana. The routes, which go door to door, are changed whenever a new recruit needs a ride...
This was the conclusion while watching the Red Sox lose again on Sunday, 4-1 to the Chicago White Sox, putting them 9 games behind the division-leading Detroit Tigers at the All-Star break. Facing a very mediocre Dave LaPoint, the Sox once again failed to provide their pitchers with any substantial offensive support...
...Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
Rain in the ninth inning of a baseball game is usually no cause for celebration, especially if the home team is losing. But when drops started falling in Kansas City last week as the Royals tried to catch the Chicago White Sox, 23,000 fans let out a rousing cheer. No wonder they were delighted to get wet. Missouri is deep in the heart of drought country: some 80% of its corn crop and more than 60% of its soybeans are in poor-to-very-poor condition. In Chicago the news that scattered showers were sprinkling the blistered Plains...
...other end of the political spectrum is Carlos Morton, 40, a didactic, polemical, yet often fiercely funny Texan. Born in Chicago, Morton spoke only Spanish until age five, then adopted English. Frequently uprooted to such places as Panama and Ecuador because his father was a career military man, he now teaches at Laredo Junior College, a few blocks from the Mexican border...