Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford and GM. When Chrysler teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1979 and 1980, unions made concessions worth approximately $1 billion. But last year the company earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat...
...slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded on the Lake Ontario side waiting to enter; an additional eight coming from such ports as Detroit, Chicago and Toledo queued up on the Lake Erie side, stalled on their way east...
...native of Detroit, Michigan, Dawson attended the University of Michigan both as an undergraduate and a graduate student. He also earned a degree from Oxford...
...Thank God we finally won one!" exulted Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. "It's a glorious day in American history," agreed Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan of California. WE GOT 'EM, shouted a headline in USA Today. Kevin Kirby, 28, a Detroit garage attendant, echoed countless other Americans as he declared, "It's about time. We needed to prove that we were not going to sit and take it anymore...
Maceroni has retained Detroit attorney John Minock to determine exactly what powers the charter gives the editor. Minock filed an injunction in a Detroit district court last week stating that Maceroni's civil rights, as well as the first and 14th amendments to the Constitution, had been violated. A hearing date is set for Monday...