Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcing the move, head coach Ron Meyer cited the differences in defensive philisophy between himself and Rust, who only lasted midway through his second season...
...Meyer said it was "not a spur-of-the-moment" decision and that his dissatisfaction with Rust began before this year's training camp...
Until the television program Dallas debuted in 1978, Dealey Plaza, the assassination site, was the most popular tourist attraction in town. Now the most popular place to see is Southfork, the ranch where Dallas is set. Fred Meyer, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party, finds an offensive image here. "When the No. 1 tourist attraction is a fictional location of a fictional TV show," Meyer says, "that's a powerful argument that there is a lack of knowledge about Dallas" Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. wants to send forth a truer picture too. "There are places...
...also a town that pulls its own weight as much as possible and in doing that it is seen as a Republican ideal. When the city decided to build a new mass transit system, says G.O.P. Chairman Meyer, "we didn't send people to Washington for money. We voted a tax to pay for it" When the city and G.O.P. asked for volunteers for nonpaying convention tasks, 20,000 Dallasites stepped forward. The city's share of the convention will be entirely funded by private donations, totaling $3.9 million. "San Francisco spent 8 million bucks...
...Mexico City buildings, and nothing seems to work very well. Four years ago, city officials proclaimed the establishment of block committees to express community needs, but those that exist serve mainly as organs of PRI patronage. About the only system that actually functions is amiguismo, roughly "friendshipness." Says Meyer: "When the water stops, our neighbor runs over to the waterworks and tells a friend, who sees to it that somebody turns on the right valve...