Word: clevelandism
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...recent years killer bees have been discovered in the U.S. on six occasions, most after hitching rides on cargo ships from Latin America. A swarm was uncovered last year on a ship in Cleveland. Several colonies have been discovered on ships in Texas; on one, the cook was using the bees for honey...
...market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they also are 34 games out of first place...
...mediums is reality itself. If one thinks of George Patton, the image that appears on the mental screen is that of George C. Scott. The officer, real in history, a vivid and powerful coherence, a life proceeding through time toward a death, becomes someone else. The writer Cleveland Amory has reported taking his father, who knew Patton well, to see the movie. When the general's aide, Charles Codman, was introduced on the screen, Amory's father protested, "It isn't Coddie." Amory whispered that it was not meant to be Coddie, it was just an actor playing Coddie...
Senior federal officials told TIME that the decision not to prosecute Presser was made by Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen and Stephen Trott, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. Both had earlier approved the strike-force decision to present the Presser evidence to the same Cleveland grand jury that indicted the other men. The two Government officials changed their minds after Presser's lawyers asked the department last month for a high-level review of the case. The FBI joined the review, saying that its program of protecting informers would be jeopardized if the Teamsters chief...
...Cleveland strike force, composed of investigators from both the Justice and Labor departments, had compiled a 100-page memo recommending that a grand jury be urged to indict Presser for allegedly putting "ghost workers" on the Local 507 payroll. The prosecutors had won convictions of or guilty pleas from two men: Allen Friedman, Presser's uncle, and John Nardi Jr. Evidence showed that from 1972 to 1981 the two were paid a total of some $275,000 by the Cleveland local without doing any work for it and that Presser had signed their paychecks. Friedman complained bitterly last week...