Word: philadelphia
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WHEN Democrat Frank Rizzo ran Philadelphia from the mayor's office in the 1970s, people called him a bully. A former cop and police commissioner in the late 1960s, Rizzo was renowned for using his power to bash those whom he once called "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots...
...meantime, the lightweights take to the water Saturday to race Pennsylvania and Cornell in Philadelphia...
...Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...
...fruit was infinitesimally small compared to the possibility of being run over by the proverbial bus on the way to the supermarket. But rather than issue a warning to examine fruit carefully, the Food and Drug Administration impounded ! 2 million crates of fruit at airports and docks in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami -- a still life of waste -- and advised consumers not to eat any Chilean fruit, which includes most of the peaches, blueberries, blackberries, melons, green apples, pears and plums on the market this time of year. As Japan and Canada followed the U.S. lead, an additional $4 million...
...followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday, 150 inspectors, more than 15% of the FDA's field force, were eyeballing grapes at the Tioga Marine Terminal. Fifteen suspicious bunches...