Word: clevelandism
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...justices approved a plan in Cleveland that reserves about half the promotions in the city's fire department for qualified minority candidates...
...death last year from Marfan's syndrome was kinder. No recriminations followed. In strictly athletic terms, the loss of Bias to the N.B.A. recalls the poignant professional football career of Syracuse Running Back Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman Trophy winner, who during the early '60s learned the Cleveland playbook while fighting leukemia and died at 23 before the first down...
After graduation Scalia married Maureen McCarthy and spent six years as an associate with a large Cleveland law firm, where he expertly juggled a wide variety of cases. He left to take a job teaching at the University of Virginia Law School. In 1971 he became general counsel of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, where he resisted the attempts of Nixon aides to tamper politically with public television and began to develop his academic specialty, the rather arcane field of administrative law. After several years in the Justice Department, Scalia went back to teaching...
Activity at ILM is currently at high pitch. The unit is finishing the special effects on Howard the Duck, being produced by Lucasfilm for an August release, about a cigar-chomping duck from another planet who crash- lands near a punk bar in Cleveland. Also in the works are Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, due out at Christmas; The Golden Child, an adventure-comedy starring Eddie Murphy; and--something new for ILM--a redesign of the rocket- ship ride at Disneyland, using Star Wars-like effects...
...line looped back up toward Chicago, seals and killer whales joined in at Cleveland's Sea World, but the absence of humans became increasingly noticeable. Tinny portable-radio broadcasts of the music got little response from clumps of handholders. "Is it over yet?" many asked...