Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rutgers, despite the loss of Phil Sellers to the Detroit Pistons, is still a powerhouse with Hollis Copeland, Eddie Jordan, and Abdel Anderson all averaging in double figures...
...York City, off-duty police have scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file...
...police so embittered? The answers start simply enough with money and security. After a few years of pushing up salaries to an average of nearly $13,000 annually for city cops, police negotiators now find municipal treasuries empty. Traditional civil service security has faded after mass layoffs in both Detroit and New York City. The resulting militancy of police unions-or benevolent associations as they are often euphemistically called-has led not merely to demonstrations, "blue flu" job actions and the threat of illegal strikes, but to fights over departmental policies. "Police union leaders have been attempting to invade what...
...making a profit-and Irvine Co. not only tries to turn a profit but clears a rather tidy one. Mobil Oil Corp. offered $200 million in May, setting off a frantic bidding war. Since then, counteroffers have come from Cadillac Fairview, a Canadian land developer, and SMBH & Z, a Detroit investment firm. Mobil has made a second bid, and the price has been pushed up toward $300 million. Last week the foundation and a California court that must approve any sale began evaluating final bids...
...Memphis from 1949 to 1965, when Tennessee Governor Frank Clement named him a criminal-court judge; the next year he was elected to an eight-year term in his own right. At the same time, he often preached on Sundays, alternating between a church in Memphis and one in Detroit. Hooks and his wife Frances have an adopted daughter...