Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although MIT is more like the Detroit Tigers of water polo, the win was nonetheless a welcome start to a season which had the potential to be awash in doubts...
...race for a new three-year auto contract shifted into high gear last week, when the United Auto Workers union chose Ford, currently the most labor-friendly of Detroit's Big Three employers, as the company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford...
...remaining U.S. hourly payroll--over the next three years. To do that, GM wants to buy more auto parts from outside suppliers. The No. 1 automaker uses in-house labor to build a whopping 70% of the parts that go into its vehicles, far more than its Detroit rivals. But the U.A.W. wants to save as many jobs as it can at GM, which could make the talks turn bitter...
...movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 255. Crashed on takeoff from Detroit on Aug. 16, 1987; 156 killed...