Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Detroit 16, Minnesota...
...U.A.W. and Ford worked all week toward reaching a contract settlement for that company's U.S. workers, patterned after the GM pact. Though apparently near agreement, the negotiators adjourned the talks on Friday night so they could take care of other important business-rooting for the Detroit Tigers in the World Series...
After all the lovely and awful games of an occasionally tedious but ultimately fleeting baseball season, the desire to go out on a high moment is still strong. Even on the edge of a championship fully anticipated since April, the Detroit Tigers themselves seemed to be hoping for a better stage than a World Series only notable, and not remarkable, for scraps of drama-an exhilarating Chet Lemon catch or an excruciating Bobby Brown slump or two professional pitching performances by Jack Morris. When San Diego seemed all but finished, Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson said, "I wish before this...
Before the 1984 Tigers, only the 1927 Yankees and 1923 Giants had led a pennant race from the first day to the last. Though Detroit's players expressed the usual respect for the opponent at hand, they seemed to imagine themselves in a deeper contest-playing for history. And not just engaged, enthralled. "Great teams are remembered fondly," Trammell sighed dreamily. Upon winning the first game 3-2, convoluted Conversationalist Anderson somehow concluded that a full seven-game Series was assured. "If it don't go seven," he worried, "people are going to miss some of my best...
Here at home we fight to win students to the side of the working class. From Sharpeville to. San Salvador to Detroit, the lines are drawn. And while Harvard continues to drape its butchers in academic robes and make mass murder "respectable." we will continue to mobilize students to take a side with workers and peasants throughout the world. Military Victory to Salvadoran Leftists! Defend, Complete, Extend the Nicaraguan Revolution! Smash Apartheid--For Workers Revolution! For Unconditional Military Defense of the USSR and Cuba! keep the Butchers on the Run! Thomas N. Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League