Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...epicenter of the auto industry's disaster, Detroit has been struggling with the nation's highest urban unemployment rate: 11.8%. Although its streets are decorated for Christmas, and stores, bars and restaurants are busy, an almost palpable anxiety hovers over the city and its gilded suburbs. For the moment, Motown's local economy has been saved from real damage by a system of auto-industry supplemental unemployment funds that allows most laid-off workers to continue to receive 95% of their base take-home pay; but those funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban...
...Detroit's city government is already scraping. A rise in crime is putting added burdens on the police force, while greater demands are being made for social services. Yet the rash of layoffs is expected to carve at least $10 million in city tax revenues out of the municipal budget, and Mayor Coleman A. Young worries that Detroit may have to ask for outside aid. Says he: "Our city's problems are only a harbinger of what the nation will soon be facing...
...This country's in a recession and we're in trouble," Ford said last week after chairing a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club. "The leadership in Washington has got to take some substantive stands...
...LeBlanc of Kirland House and Worcester; Jerrold S. Levine of Winthrop House and Boston; Marvin B. Lieberman of Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richard H. Millington of Winthrop House and Bar Harbor, Me.; Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of Dunster House and Passaic, N.J.; Jeffrey D. Sachs of Adams House and Detroit, Mich.; Alan D. Sokal of North House and Boston; Hal F. Starnes Jr. of Dunster House and Asheville, N.C.; Cass R. Sunstein of Currier House and Salem; Eric H. Wachtel of Adams House and New York City; Douglas H. Wilkins of Dunster House and Boston...
...church torn by internal dissent, Bernardin is not as easily identified with either church wing as were his two predecessors, Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, a favorite of liberals, and Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, a respected conservative. Theologically moderate but socially progressive, Bernardin is perhaps best known as a healer-a conciliator who is engagingly willing to hear all sides of an argument...