Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cops made a tiny mistake that evening, a small error of the sort that brings down empires: they failed to return Colbert's driver's license. (Ryan had thrown it away.) Colbert was about to move to Detroit, where he is now employed as a social worker, and he needed his Pennsylvania license to apply for one in Michigan. So, frightened and trembling, Colbert returned to the 39th headquarters the next day. "Here was a black guy complaining about two white cops to a white lieutenant," recalls John Gallagher, the duty supervisor that day. "It took some balls...
...received an M.A. in psychology from the University of Detroit...
Vancouver at Detroit, ESPN2...
Ford hasn't spared his own organization either. He has shaped a radical restructuring of the team and in the process made it a key component in revitalizing Detroit, one of America's most distressed major cities. He first fired head coach Wayne Fontes and installed former San Diego Chargers coach Bobby Ross. He also revamped the Lions' archaic ticketing policy, bolstered the team's marketing campaign, launched a Website and started weekly radio and TV shows that air during the season. "We really needed a face-lift," he says. "We're in the entertainment business. It's all marketing...
DIED. COLEMAN YOUNG, 79, feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...