Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With him, the Celtics alternated winning NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers and Magic Johnson. Without him, the Boys in Green bowed in favor of the Bad Boys, the Detroit Pistons, in three quick first-round games...
...explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
...Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Janice C. Simpson, Richard Behar, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina Garcia, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman
...special secret police unit had been digging into Calvert's private life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which announced it would investigate the alleged misuse of police...
...Detroit police admit investigating Calvert, but only about an alleged insurance scheme that Thomas tipped them to. Mayor Young says he knows nothing whatsoever about any police prying into Calvert's personal affairs...