Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit man files for a loan with the Dial Financial Corp.: $600 to pay his overdue fuel bill. The Georgia Power Co.'s Atlanta switchboard hums with a record 70,000-plus calls a month, mostly from hard-pressed customers complaining about the jump in utility charges. In St. Louis, Cleo Starks, 40, marches down to the Laclede Gas Co., her $300 fuel bill wadded in her fist, and punches the daylights out of Inez Paoletti at the customer service desk. "I don't know what happened," Starks told police. "My mind just snapped...
...total of $7.5 million -about double last year's debt. The Gas Service Co. of Kansas City, Mo., reports that 21% of its 753,000 customers are behind in their payments to the tune of $5,159,000-over a fourth of its January sales. At Detroit-based Michigan Consolidated Gas, just recovering from a strike of meter readers, overdue bills total $15,067,660-more than half the company's entire net income...
...time the Christmas holidays rolled around, the team had become the Detroit Scrooges. On Christmas Eve, Brown fined Porter for stalking to his spot at the far end of the bench when he was removed from a game. On Dec. 30, Money was confined to the locker room during the second half of a game against Denver and fined after a heated argument with Brown disrupted a half-time strategy session. Porter, who has played well when in the lineup, went into 1977 boiling. Said he: "I've been playing the game for five years...
...would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest of the league may live to regret it. The Pistons' combativeness has shifted its focus; Detroit players have been in fistfights with opponents during three straight games...
There is blame enough for all, players and coach, in Detroit, but winning has made it all bearable to fans-and apparently to management. There is a precedent: the baseball Oakland A's demonstrated that a team can fight and win at the same time...