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...major league baseball, most of the aggressive nicknames, like Pirates and Tigers, are attached to older franchises. Now that the game is played by college-trained millionaires, the newer teams have been more sedately named after seagoers and spacegoers (Mariners, Astros), birds (Blue Jays), religious figures (Angels, Padres) or a dimly remembered world's fair (Expos...
While the nicknames of many older pro football teams enshrine civic boosterism (Packers, Steelers, Oilers), newer names include most of the violent ones. The United States Football League produced the Invaders, Maulers, Gamblers, Gunslingers and Outlaws. As one irritated analyst put it, this group "sounds like the roster from a Hell's Angels' convention...
...contrast to the engrossing banalities of People's Court, the newer shows are filled with hokey courtroom theatrics. Defendants leap to their feet to protest adverse testimony, judges are portrayed as benevolent father figures ("This job sure gets to you once in a while," muttered Superior Court's Burns after one tough decision), and surprise witnesses abound. Viewers of Divorce Court have grown accustomed to salacious testimony that borders on parody. (Cross-examining lawyer to grocery delivery boy: "Aren't you the one ^ who propositioned Mrs. Cullen at the produce department, saying she was 'ripe and ready to eat?' " Delivery...
...dismissals represent a permanent net loss of almost 5.7% of GM's approximately 512,000 hourly and salaried U.S. employees. Even so, United Auto Workers officials sounded resigned as they explained that numerous GM workers with high seniority had earlier been transferred to newer facilities. Some of the remaining released workers will be covered by unemployment benefits that can equal up to 95% of after-tax pay for as long as two years. Michigan Governor James Blanchard, whose state will be socked with seven of the closings, affecting 17,450 workers, decried the cutbacks but acknowledged that they were...
...trainer, designed by Fairchild Republic at its development plant on New York's Long Island. The Air Force argued that it could save $2 billion by upgrading its current T-37 trainer, built by Cessna in Kansas, rather than buying 650 of the newer planes...