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Daniel Radford, who served as executive secretary of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council from 1984 to 2005, laments that the standard of living for workers in his hometown has failed to keep pace with that of similar workers in Pittsburgh. "They've got high union density, politicians in their pocket and strong community support," says Radford. "But Cincinnati is completely different. It's a tough town for workers...
...originally met when Menko was a high school exchange student from Brazil in Hagen's hometown of Caro, Mich. "When Vivian went back to her country, it was a relationship interrupted," Hagen says. "Now we have a chance to pick up where we left off. It's exciting." They lost contact after Menko left the States, mostly because in the 1970s communication between the two countries was challenging. A letter could take a month to arrive, and telephone calls were costly. In the interim, they married others and had children. In 2001, divorced and living with...
...estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick airports. But Holguera, whose principal job is managing coherent expansion for his changing hometown, is among the growing number of people worried that Spain's impressive growth depends too much on one churning mammoth: the construction industry. That sector accounts for more than 16% of Spain's economic output, roughly twice the average of euro-zone countries. "Everybody wants to own a house...
...first year in the pros was a disaster - the hometown crowd booed him lustily, and his sorry defense earned the nickname "Irk" (no D). He fit the prevailing stereotype of European players - very skilled shooters and passers who shy away from contact. Translation: softer than a Bavarian pretzel. "I was strictly a jump shooter," Nowitzki admits. "When [opponents] took that away, my game was pretty much over." Dallas almost lost him. "He was a choirboy," says Donnie Nelson, president of basketball operations for the Mavericks. "We were afraid that he was struggling so much, he was actually considering going back...
...which was still underway during the 1980 presidential campaign. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 emerged as a strong challenger to Carter for the Democratic nomination. Paul V. Holtzman ’83 says “there was certainly a lot of hometown support” for Kennedy at Harvard.But after Carter secured the Democratic nomination, many of Harvard’s intellectual heavyweights endorsed him, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Samuel P. Huntington, and Richard E. Neustadt.But in November, Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landslide. That was an outcome few Harvard...