Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blacks or Hispanics). "Unemployment is bad for business-more jobs mean greater consumer purchasing power." The New York program has already placed 11,000 low-income youngsters in large firms like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Similar private programs are thriving in cities as economically diverse as St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit and Los Angeles. In Tampa, Baseball Stars Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Lou Piniella, as well as other celebrities, have pitched in, appearing in TV commercials to promote summer jobs for teenagers. The Boston summer-jobs program, a coalition of 187 businesses, in conjunction with local schools, teaches...
...Cleveland, June 13--After being picked in the 15th round of the Major League baseball draft earlier in the month, Harvard baseball's Vinnie Martelli signed with the Cleveland Indians and was assigned to their Batavia Club in the New York-Penn League...
...Cleveland, charges of influence peddling and a judge's jilting
...whole thing, said one involved lawyer, was "a bizarre situation that reads like a bad script for a television soap opera." To be called, possibly, Scandal in the Courtroom, or maybe just The Judges. For the principal players in a black-robe drama currently unfolding in Cleveland are two federal judges. One has been accused of helping relatives and friends to get lucrative fees and jobs. The other has been accused of making some of the charges-baselessly-in order to get revenge on a lawyer-lover who jilted...
...will probably be months before the grand jury decides whether to indict Battisti, and it is not clear if anyone will review Aldrich's role. For the moment, though, one certain casualty of the scandal is the dignity of Cleveland's federal bench. Says one of its judges: "I wish this were all a bad dream and we could wake up and say it's over...