Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more cases are under investigation. Soviet-supplied evidence, including video-taped eyewitness testimony and wartime documents seized by advancing Soviet forces, has played some part in a majority of the cases that have come to court in the U.S., including that of John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker from Cleveland now charged in an Israeli court with being an infamously sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp...
Lloyd Moseby homered and drove in three runs and Jimmy Key pitched three-hit ball for six innings yesterday to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the Cleveland Indians 7-3 in the American League opener for both teams...
...argument has been bolstered as every team except the Cleveland Indians has won the division title in the past six years...
Overnight, it seems. Back in the early '80s, the state had so much oil money that State Representative Hoyt ("Pappy") Moss proposed to bail out Chrysler, Cleveland and a couple of other basket cases in the Lower 48. A few years before that, the legislators, in a gesture of unprecedented largesse, did away with the state income tax. In its place, they substituted a state- sponsored giveaway. Each and every resident was paid an annual "dividend" of some $500 merely for living in the state. The big spenders in Juneau also voted to give residents 65 and older an additional...
...Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last year mob leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City were jailed for skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos...