Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caterpillar, which has been embroiled in a United Auto Workers strike since June, will hire 1,000 workers in China in the next few years to build engines and excavators there. That infuriates Jerry Brown, who heads the U.A.W. local in East Peoria, Illinois. Says he: "They're selling the quality and technology that we helped build over the years. We're being forced to suffer from our own success...
...should take note. This is baseball the way the game is meant to be played: on intimate terms. It is baseball virtually free of mortifying drug scandals -- no player making $1,000 a month can afford a cocaine habit for long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined $50 this month for illegally grooving his bat, he complained that it was "too expensive." A carpenter or a schoolteacher can relate to that. Fifty bucks is a lot of money. By comparison, the average millionaire in the major leagues seems...
Trina Leas, 13, knows the rap against summer camp. "Fool, forget that," friends tell her. "That's stupid." They would rather have her hang out with them on the streets of Peoria, Illinois. But Trina's experience last summer at Peoria's Camp Neighborhood House opened up another side to her life. She hiked and made candles and found time to reflect on a slain classmate. In a letter she wrote, "The shot went off and hit DeWayne in the side and he fell to the ground and his guts were hanging out and he was trying to put them...
...study it in Maryland, however: Young's decision has been appealed. You must go to Chilton County, one of three sizable areas (the others are Alamogordo, New Mexico, and Peoria, Illinois) where cumulative voting is established...
...Moncada, whom a 1987 cumulative vote turned into the 24%-Hispanic city's first Hispanic councilperson in decades, was re-elected handily in each subsequent vote. (The cumulative arrangement ended this year, however, and it remains to be seen whether she will retain her seat when the system reverts.) Peoria has had only one cumulative election, which created a black councilman...