Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yankees finished fourth in the American League East, nine games behind first-place Detroit, in Piniella's second season as manager. The Yankees were second in his first year...
Just as important as efficiency for American industry is quality. The most obvious improvement has been in Detroit, where automakers were shamed in the 1970s by their products' poor performance. Today in the Hewlett Packard parking lot in California's Silicon Valley, where not long ago a U.S.-made car was a rare find, the sun shimmers off the sleek bodies of hundreds of Ford Taurus sedans. The electronics company was so impressed with the style and solidness of the autos that it bought a fleet of 8,000 for staffers to drive...
...Lazare, Mexican prostitutes popping weirdly out of doorway slots. Galassi is not the first to cite surrealism as the force that conferred upon this early work its compelling strangeness, but he makes the decisive case. By the end of this exhibit's seven-city tour -- it goes to Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Framingham, Mass., Houston and Ottawa through May 1989 -- no one will be able to look again at these pictures without seeing how they hold reality at just the right angle to be read as a dream...
...suddenly Bush is no longer alone on the battlefield. Other mortals have become targets. Bush can sound silly -- using phrases like "deep doo-doo" and telling reporters last week after visiting Poland that Soviet tanks rarely break down and the workers who make them should be sent to Detroit "because we could use that kind of ability." But that pales beside the glandular and verbal flare-ups among the Democrats. Bush's 21 years of solid public service in six big jobs stand like granite, sober but more enduring than a weekend on the Monkey Business or a speech imported...
...Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, 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...