Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Freeman Pittsburgh...
...Simpson, Franco Harris and Larry Csonka, attracted by the glamour of Hollywood, will all play for the Los Angeles Rams. Joe Greene and his colleagues along the Pittsburgh Steelers'defensive line, plus the front four of the Minnesota Vikings, will follow the sun to Miami to sign with the Dolphins. Dozens of other stars will auction off their services every year to the highest bidder, and some cold-weather cities such as Green Bay and Buffalo won't be able to buy enough players to field a team...
...more than 100 cases, the trustbusters have taken on industrial giants of both European and U.S. origin, including Kodak (for price fixing) and Pittsburgh Corning (for charging widely different prices in neighboring countries). EEC regulators have forced the dissolution of a price-fixing aluminum cartel, broken up a sugar price-fixing arrangement, and punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout...
...eventually taking 150,000 bbl. a day out of 120 wells, and Gulf paid taxes and royalties-most recently $10 per bbl.-to the territorial government of Angola. By 1973, the wells had repaid Gulfs $250 million investment, and since then they have been returning a profit to the Pittsburgh-based company...
...with the rising cost of living. The Met orchestra is an excellent, overworked ensemble that is highly conscious of its standing. A cut in annual income would be a humiliation that no comparable orchestra has yet had to accept. Worse, recent contract settlements in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., gained musicians pay raises of $95 over three years, although the first two were achieved only after costly strikes. The current weekly minimum salary for Met musicians is $385, about the same as at the New York Philharmonic. But with the proposed 44-week year, a Met player would make...