Word: detroit
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...Detroit Lions (from Oakland Raiders): Shawn Springs, CB, Ohio State. The Lions fill a major need with this great cover corner. He ran 4.4 flat at the combine and can jump over 40 inches. I don't like him as much as Bryant Westbrook because he can't bring a load against the run like Westbrook...
...Sault Ste. Marie Chippewas, a Michigan tribe rich from casino revenues, know something about spreading their bets around the table. After G.O.P. Governor John Engler trumped their plans to build a casino in downtown Detroit, they gave $100,000 to the national Democratic Party in early '96. That helped win the attention of then deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes, whom they pressed to get the Interior Department to back their casino proposal. Actually, the tribe gave the President's party almost four times that much. But to avoid further angering Engler, who was already furious about their...
...DETROIT: In an industry notorious for its vicious labor disputes, the Chrysler Corporation has long enjoyed a reputation of having the best labor relations record: just one strike in more than 20 years. That changed Thursday when some 1,800 workers at the Mound Road engine plant walked out over the company's plan to outsource production of driveshafts, which would eliminate about 300 jobs from their plant. Despite a great year for the company and employees as a whole --the highest per-employee profit sharing margin in the industry -- workers knew their position was precarious after their plant...
...Boston--See Detroit. Even worse becaue of the Wil Cordero and John Valentin controversies...
...Texas is not alone. In Durham, North Carolina, 10 banks were robbed in January and February, compared with 14 all last year. In 18 counties in central Florida, robberies are already up 61%. Since January, there have been rashes of robberies in Houston, Atlanta, Detroit and Orlando, Florida. And this comes on top of big jumps last year: Colorado, up 65%; Arizona, up 68%; Virginia, three times the level of 1994. Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, which had not had a bank robbery for almost two years, has suffered four in the past four months...