Word: clevelandism
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Celeste tell it, nine-term Ohio Republican Congressman Clarence ("Bud") Brown has a malady known as "the Washington perspective." In his bid to succeed retiring Governor James Rhodes, the 44-year-old Democrat, a Cleveland real estate developer and former Lieutenant Governor, has kept Brown on the defensive by casting him as the President's economic cheerleader...
...Cleveland Indians have offered Billy Martin a three-year contract worth at least $1 million that would allow the feisty skipper to keep his status as baseball's highest-paid manager. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in today's editions...
...Cleveland 122, Utah...
...declining enrollments, diminishing tax bases and federal education cutbacks. For their part, school districts everywhere are trying to wring concessions out of teacher unions in the form of pay freezes, benefit reductions and even salary cuts. But with both sides hurting economically, there is little ground for negotiation. In Cleveland, 4,000 teachers who struck for eleven weeks at the start of the 1979-80 school year are now at work without a new contract and have made no strike threats. The Chicago Teachers Union ratified a contract last month that includes salary freezes and the loss...
...publicity caused a nationwide scare. One Chicago hospital received 700 calls about Tylenol in one day. People in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities were hospitalized on suspicion of cyanide poisoning. Dr. William Robertson, director of the Poison Control Center in Seattle, offered some grim words of reassurance: "If it was going to be a lethal dose, you wouldn't have time to call...