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...palm trees; 16,732 registered poodles; 3,672 traffic lights; 46,000 acres still in cropland. Everything seems larger in Los Angeles. It is the biggest fishing port in America. It leads the U.S. in per capita sales of bottled water. The cities of Washington, Detroit, Denver, Boston, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Providence combined would fit within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School District...
Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio tapped into that feeling last Thursday, when she addressed a seminar of working women at a Cleveland junior college. "The excitement and the enthusiasm that we all had for each other in that room was electrifying," she says. "Here we were trying to talk about how women can attain policy-making goals, whether in office or small business or a hospital, and after Mondale's announcement, we knew we could do anything...
Carbo was one of the game's finest pinch hitters and one of Lee's best friends on the team. In the middle of the 1978 season when the Sox were in a right pennant race with the Yankees, Carbo was shipped to Cleveland for a $15,000 pocketful of change. Lee walked off the team in protest. He was right too. Carbo was exactly who the Sox needed to send out to face Rich Gossage in the playoff game at the end of the season after Bucky Dent's heartbreaking home...
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Indeed, health care has been a major source of new jobs. The 63-year-old Cleveland Clinic has become one of that city's largest private employers. Surgeons at the hospital perform some 4,000 coronary bypasses a year, and a $500 million building program is under way to expand the 1,000-bed facility. The hospital's payroll has almost tripled during the past ten years, to 7,400 professional and hourly workers, including 2,000 residents of the largely black Hough district that surrounds the clinic...