Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance of yesterday's voting wasperhaps best illustrated by the contrast betweenDinkins' and Wilder's narrow victories in theirraces and the ease with which Detroit MayorColeman Young won election to a fifth term in themajority-Black city...
...best divisional rivalries can be found in the two divisions with the tightest geographical breakdown--both Central Divisions. The Black and Blue division in the NFC, with Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota and Detroit, is equalled in intensity only by the Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Cincinnati showdowns...
...there's hope for all those teams that have suffered through the "Little Red Riding Hood" syndrome in the 1980s after last year's breakthrough, when the Detroit Pistons swept through the playoffs and took the Lakers in four games for the NBA Championship. Finally, the NBA trophy wasn't bathed in Celtic green or Laker gold...
...Detroit is solid, with its only loss being the Biggest (and the worst) of the Bad Boys, Rick Mahorn. Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, John Salley, Dennis Rodman, Mark Aguirre and Joe Dumars are the class of the league. Throw in free agent acquisitions David Greenwood and Scott Hastings for beef up front, and this team looks formidable. Only dominating centers such as Ewing, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and San Antonio's David Robinson can threaten the Bad Boys...
What's all this nationalism, anyway? This is increasingly one world, and the goal is for the whole globe to prosper, not to have the Japanese shun our rice, or we their cars, out of tribal paranoia. So what if Detroit just laid off more than 24,000 workers, with predictions of more to come...