Word: detroit
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...plan, originally for the children of alumni, by which a payment of $4,450 to the school bought four years' tuition 18 years later. Some 600 have signed up, including nonalumni students, who have since been brought into the program. Canisius in Buff'lo and the University of Detroit now provide similar plans. All three also offer rate-for-'ge variations. A 17-year-old bound for Detroit, for example, can put up $20,284 now for four years starting in 1987 (actual cost: $29,075), while a ten-year-old needs only $14,572 for his projected...
...things, the two-year, 10% wage package the city has offered their union. The haulers, however, represent only a small segment of the Philadelphia municipal workers who were on strike. Libraries, city-run museums, and swimming pools have been shuttered during the walkout. Meanwhile, last week municipal workers in Detroit followed Philadelphia's example and walked off the job for higher wages, shutting down buses, the city zoo and, yes, garbage collection. As the rubbish piled up there as well, a county judge ordered the city and unions, which represent 7,000 striking workers, to negotiate immediately...
...DETROIT--College women are more likely than college men to smoke cigarettes, suggesting that the tobacco industry is successfully linking female smoking with an image of glamour and success, according to a federal study released yesterday...
...acknowledged guru of the computer movement is Philip Meyer, 55, now professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meyer first used a computer as an investigative tool when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, analyzing the demographics of blacks in Detroit's 1967 riots. He had previously worked on a computer while on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Meyer: "Harvard had an IBM 7090, and I learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired...
...romance that not only endures but thrives. The literary descendants of Chandler and his contemporaries James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett have unleashed stalkers of the urban wildernesses across the country. Parker and George V. Higgins cover Boston; Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman have a lock on Detroit; Stephen Greenleaf and Bill Pronzini have staked out San Francisco, and Washington is in the hands of Ross Thomas. In Cincinnati, the territory belongs to Jonathan Valin...