Word: detroit
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...from Detroit, so Cambridge seems pretty safe to me," Reeves said, adding that he would not support hiring additional police officers...
James Hoffa has spent his life in a kind of dress rehearsal for this moment. He once told an interviewer that his favorite movie is The Lion King because it mirrors his struggle. Reared on Detroit's West Side, Hoffa was an honors student and a local football hero. In 1967, a year after he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, his father was forced from office and jailed after a federal-court conviction for jury tampering. In July 1975, Hoffa mysteriously disappeared from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant. No one has ever been charged...
...many of those years, young Hoffa labored in a modest law practice. Then, four years ago, he went to work full time as executive assistant to Larry Brennan, the president of Teamsters Joint Council 43 in Detroit. He parlayed that role into alliances with local Teamsters officials around the U.S., including some who were later purged during Carey's tenure because of corruption. And Hoffa's support "wasn't confined to the union's old guard," says Harley Shaiken, professor and labor-relations specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. It also reflected the Teamsters' unhappiness with its own place...
Meanwhile, Detroit makes up for past sins of emission (TIME Daily...
...DETROIT: Oilmen, light your cigars: Honda may have just saved internal combustion. Honda Motor Co. announced the development of a gasoline engine that is nearly emission-free. "A car equipped with this engine could drive through a high smog area and the smog producing emissions coming out of the tailpipe would actually be lower than they are in the surrounding air," said Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's president and chief executive officer...