Word: detroit
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...count journalists among the proletariat now. Thanks to a highly unsuccessful four-year strike by six unions on Detroit's two daily newspapers, reporters have been reduced to expendable commodities like the teamsters and press operators with whom they continue to picket. Faced with massive cutbacks in their newsrooms, reporters broke with their employers in an attempt to maintain workplace solidarity and to ensure editorial quality in their publications. But in an age when newspapers are in a cost-cutting mode, as they are now, even union strength did not prove to be enough...
There were other nice stories in baseball this year: the arrival from Japan of Nomo, the revival of the franchise in Seattle, the retiring of the Detroit Tigers' longtime double-play combination of Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, who between them have 164 years without a world championship, teased their fans for a while. Even the death of Mantle in August had a sweetness to it, as people called him up to mind the way the Yankees called...
...free at last. It was something I kept having dreams about in the days before the march," says Earl Prince, 30, who helped get several dozen homeless Chicagoans on buses to Washington. In the crowd, he agreed to correspond with other black men from Virginia, from Detroit, from San Francisco. "I had no idea it would be as magnificent as it was," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Nelson of Virginia. Trained to recognize chains of command, Nelson nevertheless felt the stirrings of rebellion: "I was out there for white Americans also. If I am the object of some people's scorn...
...under former president Lane Kirkland. Sweeney has for the moment pumped life into the labor movement, but it remains to be seen how to continue to do so over the long term. He's got a lot of things to deal with: the Caterpillar strike, the Boeing strike, the Detroit newspapers strike. He's really got to produce in those negotiations in order to revive the union." Moody notes that one way Sweeney has promised to shake things up is to spend up to 20 percent of the union budget on recruitment efforts. "This is a huge increase in spending...
...this advice affect your trick or treating patterns in the past depends largely on your home community. It's difficult to say whether the Internet--a network designed to easily share and disseminate information--is more like your friendly small town in Vermont or like inner city Detroit...