Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard seemed to have set itself an unbreakable precedent by blowing Fordham, UConn and the highranking University of Detroit off the floor in the first half of their match-ups only to choke in the second stanza...
Automobiles. Last year Detroit bought only about $2 million worth of chips, but by the early 1980s the auto industry is expected to become a more than $1 billion market in its own right. At General Motors, chips are already at work regulating the ignition systems of Olds Tornados. GM President Elliott Estes estimates that by 1988 fully 90% of his company's cars will contain even more elaborate electronically controlled ignition systems. Though a computer in every car is still a couple of years away, both Ford and GM last year signed separate long-term contracts with Motorola...
...Detroit 125, New Jersey...
Fictional controversy has become real. The group's sponsorship of the film angered many of the 35,000 members at the A.L.A.'s annual business meeting in Chicago. Detroit's public library director and past A.L.A. president, Clara Jones, condemned the film as "highly unsuitable, insensitive, in poor taste and skillfully racist." But the film's supporters have been equally vociferous. Said Atlanta Head Public Librarian Ella Yates, who is black: "I don't believe in squelching the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis or any racist who wants to talk. The only way to deal with hateful ideas is openly...
...selfish point-grabbing by the pros spurted during the bidding war for talent between the N.B.A. and the American Basketball Association, which was absorbed by the older league in 1976. Agents negotiated longterm, no-cut contracts, and even so-so players got $200,000 or more a year. Admits Detroit's Center Bob Lanier, a team player himself: "Most people, and I'm one of them, get paid by the statistics they produce. A lot of guys have inflated values of their worth." In Boston, the egos got so big that the players forced the retirement of Coach Heinsohn...