Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date, Dawson has also given $431,500 to Wayne State University in Detroit, $230,000 to the United Negro College Fund and a few hundred thousand dollars more to various community colleges and churches. All he asks of the schools is that they use his money to give scholarships to the most deserving students, regardless of race. "If I was to do anything with my money other than help some of these kids begging to go to school," he says, "I'd be throwing it away...
...watched as she helped others who were less fortunate, even when she could barely feed her family. She made Dawson and his siblings promise always to "give something back," no matter how little. It's a lesson he took with him back in 1940 when he headed for Detroit...
...year mortgage--and paid it off in six years. He also once owned a pair of shiny Lincoln Continentals. But he gave up those things 23 years ago when he and his wife were divorced. Today he lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Highland Park, a gritty Detroit suburb. He drives a red 1985 Ford Escort that runs just fine, thank you--though neighborhood thieves have forced him to do without hubcaps...
...children to violent and explicit R-rated movies. Parents must be made more aware of just how badly young children are affected by viewing violence. However, in the interim we must not sit idly by condoning this deplorable treatment of children. ORLANDO B. DOYLE, PRESIDENT Impact Seminars for Youth Detroit...
...Anytime children are involved in a horrible accident such as this one," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "there?s an emotional connection that tends to drive the price up." But in the end, it is hardball negotiations that usually fix the final price tag, she says. This is precisely what happened in GM?s last major product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes...