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This current project is a study of the intersection of labor market conditions, neighborhood conditions, segregation and intergroup dynamics in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit and Boston...
...Michigan: A commuter airplane carrying 29 passengers and crew crashed in rural southern Michigan Thursday about 18 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. Delta ComAir Flight 3272 crashed and burned in Monroe County in an open field in cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated in Cincinnati...
...DETROIT: Volkswagen agreed to pay General Motors $100 million as part of a settlement ending a long and bitter lawsuit alleging that Volkswagen stole trade secrets. VW also agreed to buy at least $1 billion worth of parts from GM over seven years. The deal reportedly had been in the works ever since last month, when German prosecutors indicted the central figure in the case, Jose Ignacio Lopez. It closes a dispute that began in March 1993, when Lopez, about to be promoted to General Motors' chief of North American operations, moved overnight to Volkswagen, along with seven other...
...Tuesday, with Wayne Fontes in the on-deck circle. White was let go by Oakland after a 7-9 season, the fifth NFL head coach to go in the last five days. Fontes got a Christmas reprieve, but almost surely will learn Thursday that his 81/2-year tenure in Detroit will come to an end, which will bring to eight the coaching changes in the NFL since the start of the 1996 season. White joins Rich Kotite of the Jets, Dan Reeves of the Giants, Rich Brooks of St. Louis and June Jones of Atlanta as coaches who have lost their...
Just ask customers like Barbara Stowe, a caterer in suburban Detroit who got out of the Sears habit years ago. Stowe walked into a remodeled store in Livonia, Michigan, to buy a paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would...