Word: clevelandism
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...media are not the only ones whose semiconscious, racist values are exposed and rejected in this provocative book. In separate chapters, the assertions that Blacks can't swim and lack the necessities to manage or own teams are dismissed with stories about an all-Black swimming club in Cleveland and the only Black-owned minor league franchise in history. There are also chapters about the dearth of Black catchers in baseball and the stereotype of Latin players as hot-blooded...
MAJOR LEAGUE. In a season thick with baseball flicks, David S. Ward gives us a rowdy, genial, cynical comedy about a fanciful Cleveland Indians team. Populated by rejects from the Mexican, minor and California penal leagues, this motley Tribe can't lose. The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky...
...well various treatments work. Armed with such knowledge, doctors should be able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied are those for cataracts, diabetes and broken hips (the question: When is replacing the hip the best thing to do?). A report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that one type...
...arose largely from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last week denied he had bought such a policy, Hartwig certainly did, and had not scratched Truitt as beneficiary when he died...
...will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a year. But that will only dent the problem: the U.S. annually produces 1.6 billion lbs. of plastic soda, milk and water bottles, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York City to Cleveland...