Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still have a chance for glory in the team competition. In our first bout we had faced Detroit and Salt Lake City. After an intense show, with poems on topics ranging from racism to date rape, a Detroit poet rocked the room with a sharp, stylized jazz piece, pushing her team ahead by 0.3. But my teammate Jerry pulled out a powerhouse finale about his cousin's death, and we skated into first place by a scant 0.1. We also won the next two nights, moving into the Final Four with Dallas, Cleveland and New York...
...squeeze, as license fees for hit shows and major sports events have soared (CBS just paid $4 billion for eight years of American Football Conference games--more than double the cost of the last contract) and advertising-rate increases have started to flatten. "The big-gauge networks are like Detroit in the 1970s," says Diller. "In the next three years, they will all be confronted with a massive retooling effort...
...long way from Afghanistan to Detroit, Jersey City and Brooklyn. But that's the route a federal grand jury says Osama bin Laden's money took when the exiled Saudi millionaire started funding Islamic extremists in the United States. According to counterterrorism officials, the New York jurors handed down a sealed indictment for Bin Laden as long ago as June -- two months before he became the prime suspect in the African embassy bombings...
Last week, after Fieger stunned Michigan's Democratic machine to become the party's nominee for Governor, one of his first orders of business was heading into downtown Detroit, where Jackson was preaching at a crowded Baptist convention. Fieger (rhymes with tiger) is aggressively courting black voters and was looking forward to Jackson's imprimatur...
Geoffrey isn't the first Fieger to draw some limelight. His dad, the late Bernard Fieger, was a prominent Detroit labor lawyer, and his mother June was a union organizer. Of three siblings, younger brother Doug enjoyed the most fame, as the lead singer of the rock group the Knack, whose song My Sharona topped the charts worldwide in 1979. Sister Beth is a writer. But the family isn't surprised that Geoffrey has become so colorful in his work. "Look at the people who will go on the Jerry Springer show and display the most hideous aspects of their...