Word: detroit
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Contract's drivers are on the road about 80 hours a week, mostly hauling spare auto parts and other freight for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The new drivers are needed because the company, which already has 1,200 trailers based at eight terminals from Detroit to Beaumont, Texas, is planning to expand to Atlanta and New York City. Anyone in good health is welcome to apply, but farmers will be given preference. "They've got a good work ethic," explains Lacy. "Our people work long hours. This just isn't for everybody...
...operators objected that the law barred them from the city's downtown, forcing them to unprofitable locations. Well, said the court, the town has no obligation to ensure "sites at bargain prices." The court's ruling in effect permits localities to scatter adult theaters, as Detroit has, or to concentrate them, as Boston has in its "combat zone." After the decision was announced, the mayor's office in Renton was deluged with more than 100 calls from officials of other cities looking for tips on zoning-ordinance design...
Abutting heavily black Detroit, the predominantly white suburb of Dearborn has earned an unsavory reputation as one of America's more segregated communities. Conditions have not changed appreciably since the 1980 census showed only 83 blacks among Dearborn's 90,660 residents. The city's lily-white makeup was maintained by Mayor Orville Hubbard, a chest-thumping racist who ruled Dearborn's city hall from 1942 to 1978. Although Hubbard died in 1982, his legacy was hauntingly present last week as civil rights activists expanded a boycott of local stores to protest efforts to bar nonresidents from most of Dearborn...
When he got back to Detroit that same day, Iacocca wrote the Secretary to say "I have now read the letter you handed me in our meeting today, and I + understand from our discussion that the letter is being held in abeyance." Back came a whistler from Hodel: "I wish to assure you that my Feb. 10 letter to you was effective upon delivery, remains so, and is not 'being held in abeyance...
...second time in his highly visible career, Iacocca had been canned. The previous occasion was when Henry Ford II tossed him out of the presidency of the Ford Motor Co. in 1978 with no more explanation than "Sometimes you just don't like somebody." At his Detroit press conference last week, Iacocca first quipped, "I've got to stop getting fired like this." The Chrysler boss then insisted flatly that there had been no conflict between his two Statue of Liberty jobs. He said that he had first taken the commission post in 1982 at the urging of then Secretary...