Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Willie Horton example is designed to create the most horrible psycho-sexual fears," Jackson said. "The furlough ad with black and brown faces rotating in and out of jail, the use of the Jackson-Dukakis ticket symbolism, which is distortion, referring to me as a Chicago hustler...there have been a number of rather ugly race-conscious signals sent from that campaign...
...living in slacks," says Joanne West, 42, a suburban housewife. "I was in desperate need of dressing up." Now every weekend she and her husband head downtown to Chicago's new club, Karl's Satin Doll, for an elegant evening. "We were falling into the couch-potato thing," she says, "but this has helped us get up and out." So even a sofa spud can be a sentimentalist at heart...
...Chicago's O'Hare airport, already the most delay-plagued hub in the U.S., may be taking a turn for the worse. The slowdown comes as the result of excessive stress on O'Hare's air-traffic controllers, who committed four errors over five days in late September and early October. In one incident, two United Airlines jets passed within 500 ft. of each other. Blaming a shortage of experienced controllers at O'Hare, the Federal Aviation Administration reduced landings at the airport from 96 an hour to 80 during evening rush hours. Last week the FAA also recommended...
...private-housing stock, some of the most ambitious renovation is being performed -- again -- by community-development corporations, which obtain funds from local governments, financial institutions and religious organizations. In Chicago, Bethel New Life, a Lutheran Church group, has refurbished 321 homes, built a day-care center and saved a crumbling school building. Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts has proposed a bill that would provide $500 million to help nonprofit community groups purchase and rehabilitate low-income housing...
...Howell, says of his ex-teammates, "They're all pretty calm that way, studied, directed, prepared -- they're real prepared." His obvious reference is to Tony La Russa, 44, a thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let out his pants. Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco...