Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diego's symphony is far from the first to capitulate to low and ever-graying attendance. In the last 10 years, orchestras in New Orleans, Oakland and Denver have also gone under, reappearing in less powerful forms. The cities may vary, but the litany remains the same: little financial support from audiences who say they have better things...
...salary as a Head Start teaching assistant in Los Angeles is too low for her to pay taxes, making her ineligible for the per-child credit. With the EITC she got last year, "I caught up on a furniture payment, visited my grandmother in Oakland, bought a bed instead of putting it on credit, and saved a little...
...them. The lucky eight who have qualified are: Pitssburgh, Green Bay, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Detroit in the NFC; and Buffalo and Kansas City in the AFC. The key games are in the AFC, with Seattle (8-7) at Kansas City (11-2), Denver (7-8) at Oakland (8-7), and Miami (8-7) at St. Louis. In the NFC, three teams are in the hunt for the final two spots. Games to watch: Philadelphia (10-5) at Chicago (8-7), Minnesota (8-7) at Cincinnatti (6-9) and San Francisco (11-4) at Atlanta (8-7). Chicago...
Then there was poor Tagliabue, who explained to the Senators that while there were a number of reasons for the rash of franchise shifts, the main culprit was the 1982 court decision allowing the Raiders to move from Oakland to Los Angeles. "Right now," said Tagliabue, "antitrust law, as it applies to internal commitments among members of sports leagues, is being interpreted in a way that is ripping leagues apart." When the Senators were through with him, Tagliabue subjected himself to the entreaties of the media, most of which went like this: "Commissioner, what do you say to the people...
...threat of an antitrust suit stopped the league from blocking the Rams' move to St. Louis last year, and even now--talk about chutzpah--Al Davis is suing the N.F.L. for trying to prevent his move back to Oakland. So while the N.F.L. is willing to send its lawyers up against those of Jerry Jones, it won't line up over the old antitrust ball with Modell. "Given the current court precedents and the possibility of treble damages in a case decided by a jury in an interested locale," says Tagliabue, "we would be foolish to go to court over...