Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time. His room is growing disheveled piles of shirts, pants and who knows what else. A Trainspotting poster and several homages to R.E.M. cover the walls. Like many college dorms, there is a dart board and a picture of Shaft, a teddy bear on the bookshelf, and a Detroit Red Wings banner. Plants seems at home in his room, comfortable with the clutter, and when guests come over, he kindly offers them a seat on a sketchy futon and a glass of iced...
...lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend Atlanta's program is futile. Instead, says Tucker, Atlanta should replace its program with one that gives preferences to local companies, as Detroit did in 1994 when it was faced with a similar challenge. Since then, she says, black- and female-headed companies there have obtained about $600 million in contracts, roughly the same as under the old approach...
...Clash, of course. And then I kind of took a step back from what I think of as guitar-based music, when hip-hop started to kick off and got into that and then techno and a lot of electronic music. Kraftwerk were massive influences. I got into Detroit techno, especially early Detroit techno, Chicago house, and then I think it got a bit lame, it got a bit boring, and it got a bit obvious, and that's when I started going back to guitar-based stuff and Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth... Sonic Youth...
...places have been economically intertwined. Last year two-way trade between Ontario and Michigan amounted to an astonishing $52 billion, much of it related to the automotive industry. The so-called automotive alley of assembly plants and partsmakers that stretches from Toronto and London, Ont., to Detroit is one of the world auto industry's most productive centers. But autos are nothing like the whole picture. Energy exports, shipping and other transportation links across the Great Lakes and a growing e-commerce further cement the relationship. "There is no place else in the world where there is a greater integration...
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