Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic prosperity of the mid-'80s has of course helped stimulate both new construction and renovation, particularly in those cities blessed with high employment and booming industry. And some of the new downtown buildings are impressive. On the other hand, many cities have not revived. Detroit is still comatose, Gary, Ind., is not much healthier, and development in Oakland is lagging. Even in cities where renovation is rampant, gentrification has caused disgruntlement. Inhabitants of South Boston and East Los Angeles are not quite as excited as they might be about the exposed-brick, freshly baked, Benettonian fabulousness across town...
...Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
Anxiety was especially high in Detroit, where automakers feared the crash could deal a new blow to car sales, which are already slumping. Maryann Keller, a prominent auto analyst with Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, a Manhattan-based investment firm, predicted that U.S. sales of cars and trucks would fall about 15% next year, to 9.5 million vehicles. One reason for her gloomy forecast, she said, was that the loss of wealth caused by the stock- market decline would have a "significant effect on consumer confidence and the ability to spend...
...their fans' deportment that amazed the country, so used to New York City trashing its stadium or Detroit setting fire to the neighborhood. From the first game to the last, both won by the series' MVP Frank Viola, Minnesotans were content to twirl cotton hankies for Kirby Puckett and to blow tin whistles at the Cardinals. Gracious winning was the story of the year in baseball. When Minnesota finally won something, it knew...
...Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...