Word: detroit
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...some areas antiabortionists have taken their fight to the streets. Women arriving at clinics in many cities face a formidable line of protesters, or "sidewalk counselors," who try to talk them out of getting abortions. Threatened with a boycott of their lucrative annual cookie sale by right-to- lifers, Detroit's Girl Scouts in 1984 deleted mention of abortion and birth control from a proposed training program for adults. In Arizona and North Carolina, Fundamentalists are seeking to prevent public funding for Planned Parenthood, the organization dedicated to providing family planning, including abortion...
...nearly three decades, Detroit has been the scene of one of the costliest and hardest-fought newspaper rivalries in the U.S. In a battle for dominance of the sixth largest market in the nation, the powerful Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. has spent an estimated $23 million since 1979 to cover losses at the morning Detroit Free Press (circ. 646,476). The smaller, family-run Evening News Association, which owns the all-day Detroit News (circ. 666,949), has paid even more. It allegedly used revenues from five television and two radio stations to offset an estimated $41.5 million in losses...
...dealers at an estate sale. Although Clark considers the News the crown jewel of the company, bidders seem more enticed by ENA's highly profitable television stations in Washington, Tucson, Oklahoma City, Austin and Mobile. (ENA also owns nine newspapers in California and New Jersey, and radio stations in Detroit.) Rumored potential suitors include CBS, Hearst, Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke, the Tribune Co. and Wesray Corp. (headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon). Another major contender is considered to be the Gannett Co., the country's largest newspaper group, which reportedly bought a block of 20,000 shares...
...father, a Glasgow theater electrician and distillery worker, came to the U.S. in 1923, when Doug was seven, and eventually took a job at Chrysler's now defunct De Soto plant in Detroit. Fraser, who became a citizen with his parents in the late 1920s, followed his father into the factory and became active in the fledgling United Auto Workers union during the organizing drives that preceded World War II. He rose through the ranks to serve as U.A.W. president for six years, beginning in 1977, and earned a reputation as one of the nation's most respected labor leaders...
...career mixing business and Government service, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1961-63, during which time he sought out and thanked the official who had cleared his entry), was Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Treasury (1977-79) and is now chief executive officer of the Detroit- , based Burroughs Corp. He became a U.S. citizen in 1952. "One of the unique things about this country is that it's just as much or more of an honor to say, 'My father came steerage from Sicily,' as to say, 'My father's family has been here for twelve...