Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winners will advance to the Final Four in Detroit. The semifinals will be on Thursday, March 26, and Friday, March 27; the finals and consolation will be on Saturday...
Around the country, a number of such clubs have politely surrendered -- the Houston Club, for example, and the Detroit Athletic Club -- but others keep maneuvering with all the grace of frightened schoolboys. (Speaking of which, the Princeton University council last month asked New Jersey authorities whether Princeton's last two all-male eating clubs could escape going coed by severing all connections with the university, as several all-male clubs at Harvard have done.) Washington's splendiferous Cosmos Club, which boasts Woodrow Wilson and Oliver Wendell Holmes among its past members, has even tried (unsuccessfully) to require new members...
...subculture so arcane that few even know it exists, this counts as a world-class event: the first East Coast Convention of Cumann na bPiobairi, the national Irish Pipers' Club -- and what is a little discomfort? The novices are eager to hobnob with such superstars as Al Purcell, from Detroit; Bill Ochs, Jerry O'Sullivan and Matt Connolly, out of New York; and Denis Brooks, all the way from Seattle. For the pros, it is a chance to trade techniques, tunes and gossip saved since they last...
...While Detroit's automakers have been aided by six years of quotas on imported Japanese cars, guess who else has benefited handsomely? Answer: the very rivals that the quotas sought to curb. The trade limits created a shortage of Japanese autos in U.S. showrooms, thus enabling their makers to raise prices and boost their revenues by as much as $2 billion a year. That extra profit, which came out of the pockets of U.S. consumers, gave the Japanese automakers even more money for research to improve their competitive position against Detroit...
...Final Four will take place in Detroit on the weekend March...