Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much more difficult to acknowledge that the ties between Harvard and South Africa are those of class, that the same corporate investors remaining inactive on issues of oppression in South Africa remain silent on issues of worker oppression at home. Ford Motor Company has factories in Detroit as well as South Africa...
hitter whose home run and triple in an 8-1 victory over Kansas City began Detroit's sweep of the playoffs. Rightfielder Kirk Gibson homered in the second game and gathered hits in all three (.417) to be named the most valuable player. Lance Parrish, the bulging catcher, says, "I think the fact that so many of us have grown up together makes it easier to get excited for each other...
Sparky Anderson's "most special team," the American League champion Tigers, led the Kansas City Royals from beginning to end in a playoff reflecting the stunning baseball season in Detroit. Their 107th victory left the Tigers in the position of much of the country, caught up in the exquisite misery of the Chicago Cubs, if less out of sentiment than self-interest. By the grace of stadium lights and glory of television cameras, a Cubs conquest in the fifth game of the National League playoff stood to gain Detroit an extra home date in the World Series...
...Tigers would have been nearly universally cheered, for no sports town has been more forbearing and no city deserves more cheer. Sixteen seasons have gone by since the Tigers of Al Kaline and Denny McLain won the World Series, and the fans have withstood some bleak years. In Detroit, there appear to be only good times or bad. Record profits or deepening recessions. Windfalls or layoffs. When the Tigers were winning every day in April and May, it occurred to some that they could not possibly have been more in step with the city (unless, of course, they had been...
...point is that the number of people in this country who are below the poverty level is still increasing. The point is that when Reagan said there were no hungry people in America, people were starving in Detroit and elsewhere. They still are. When a small assortment of donated meat dishes (TV dinners, canned ravioli, etc., one to a family) was distributed to the poor in Detroit several months ago, people lined up to wait hours before hand. Many went away with nothing. The point is that Reagan Administration officials have engaged in activities reminiscent of Marie Antoinette. She pretended...