Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleveland 45, Baltimore...
...worked one summer at a company that produced hydrofluoric acid, which is used in etching glass and other processes. Wolfe found that the acid etched human skin as well; he often left work covered by first-degree burns. That experience helped turn him toward a medical career. At Cleveland's Western Reserve University, Wolfe studied under famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock who, he says, "made it very clear that it is not possible to understand people's health problems without understanding the circumstances from which they come." Those circumstances include job and living conditions, as well as diet?all ongoing concerns...
...Cleveland's school system is in at least as much trouble as the municipal government. Having managed for two years to delay obeying a federal court's orders to desegregate city schools, which are roughly 60% black, the school board last week voted to sell some 28 vacant school buildings and 20 parcels of land to raise $2.5 million to buy 80 buses-enough to transport 8,500 of the city's junior high school students. To add to the school board's problems, its 27-year-old president, John E. Gallagher Jr., was convicted...
...Cleveland must also find a way to pay a $13 million debt owed to the Cleveland Electricity Illuminating Co. The privately owned utility sells power to the public Municipal Light Co., which resells it to 46,000 customers. Last spring C.E.I, got federal marshals to begin tagging pieces of city property for sale at auction to satisfy the bill. The private utility has offered to buy out Muny Light, but Kucinich has refused, arguing that it provides a competitive check that curbs rate hikes by C.E.I...
...city's business and civic leaders are trying to rebuild the city's image with a $4.3 million promotion campaign. TV, radio and magazine ads have been prepared around the slogan, THERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATION IN CLEVELAND, AND WE'RE BUILDING A WHOLE NEW TOWN. But the current wave of bad news has caused one of the campaign's chief fund raisers, Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, to temper his boosterism. "Let's face it," say: Modell, "you can't talk about the great cultural assets...