Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazines which sport identical formats. "I'm the only one that knows what both the left and the right hand are doing," he says. Yet, some of each magazine's content would suggest otherwise. The Professor, who is actually publisher Edward C. Horowitz, concludes his analysis of the Detroit Lions by saying, "Only nine players, of the 55 on the roster, remain from the pre-Clark era." Too coincidentally, Gary Austin's supposedly separate analysis similarly ends. "With only nine of 55 players on the roster from before he arrived in 1978, this is Clark's team...
...Central Division title honors in 1982, the Bucs will once more be among the highest bidders." The king of football annuals, Street and Smith's Pro Football, similarly waffles. The magazine writes: "The Washington Redskins could win it all"--but also says the same thing about the Detroit Lions, St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Giants and a bunch of other teams...
...Renaissance Center stands as a symbol of what is possible when people who live and work in a city combine their efforts toward a common goal." So said Michigan Governor William Milliken five years ago of Detroit's new $357 million cluster of five glass towers, a 32-acre complex aimed at reviving the city's decaying downtown area. Now Ren Cen stands as a symbol of hard times. The center defaulted last week on its mortgage debt of more than $200 million by failing to make a scheduled payment of $10 million...
...newspaper war in Detroit may be the nation's hardest fought, and it is almost certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers...
...which he joyfully pilots around Manhattan's pot-holed streets with the aplomb of a captain at the helm of a swift cutter. But he is also generous with his Met colleagues, sending them champagne on festive occasions and often giving a party at the Renaissance Center in Detroit to celebrate the company's yearly U.S. spring tour...