Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse discrimination charges. Her attack is well grounded--the Administration has sided with whites claiming reverse discrimination in suits in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans in addition to the Boston and Birmingham cases...
...Detroit 4, Boston...
...assemble 8,000 Callisto bodies a year at his factory outside Turin. The $600 million agreement, which will more than double the Pininfarina firm's annual sales (1983: $80.3 million), will create some unusual logistical problems. After completion, the bodies will be shipped 4,500 miles to Detroit, where they will be married to the chassis. Sea voyages were deemed too dangerous for the handcrafted metalwork and delicate lacquer finish, so the bodies will be flown to the U.S. by jumbo jet. Pininfarina will send a planeload every other day once production gets under way, but the added cost...
...time they cut a couple of singles for a local label called Steeltown in 1968, word of the young prodigies with a front man who could sing and move like Jackie Wilson had started to spread as far as Detroit and Motown. Calls were placed; connections were made. In November 1969, Motown released the first Jackson 5 single, I Want You Back, with a propulsive vocal by Michael, 11. The record reached No. 1 in twelve weeks...
...goal posts and signed Heismart Trophy Winner Mike Garrett at halftime of the East-West game. Back then, when Kansas City signed a Garrett, the city of Buffalo cheered, just as the Bills' coups were celebrated in San Diego. Hadl was a No. 1 draft choice of the Detroit Lions, but never regretted throwing in with the Chargers, and ended up the N.F.L.'s M.V.P. at Los Angeles in his dotage...