Word: detroit
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...chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee and Detroit -- in retaliation for Time Warner's refusal to carry the Fox news channel in New York. Fox counters in full-page newspaper ads this week that Time Warner is forcing it to stop transmitting because the cable operator won't renegotiate contracts for access to the local stations. Feuding between...
...radio age. By 1926, 14 years after Edwin Armstrong cranked up his first receiver, the good word was streaming from American radio stations, first shocking and then energizing what was then still a devoutly conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin's speeches...
...thinking is flawed. But I remember the days when players felt allegiance to their team. Larry, Kevin, D.J., Danny and the Chief were in the Celts starting lineup forever, or so it seemed. The same with Magic, Byron, Coop, Worthy and Kareem. Other teams like the Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers had consistency in their lineups as well. It wasn't about the money, it was about winning. It may be a myth, but I remember a story of Larry Bird walking into contract negotiations with Red Auerbach and before Red said a word Larry...
...Detroit, which for a decade fought air bags as being too expensive, now objects just as strenuously to disconnecting them. "The bottom line is that air bags in conjunction with seat belts save lives," says Chrysler spokesman Jason Vines. Concurs Lou Camp, the director of safety and engineering standards at Ford: "We believe that if the case for air bags is presented to customers properly, very few will choose to have them disconnected...
...harmony ends there, however, because Detroit is likely to resist the proposal for smart air bags. Automakers insist that elaborate systems tailored to the weight and position of each occupant would be difficult to engineer and test, and could add as much as $600 to the cost of each vehicle. But just as in its earlier opposition to air bags, Detroit may learn to live with all that extra trouble--and so too may the driving public...