Word: pittsburgh
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...whose Atari unit has reaped a fortune on such electronic diversions as Pac-Man and Asteroids, apparently thinks that there is still money to be made from real-life action on a dusty playing field. Warner announced last week that it will buy a 48% share in the Pittsburgh Pirates from the team's longtime owners, the John W. Galbreath family of Pittsburgh, for an undisclosed price...
...players than among college players. For example, if Cornell were to play Texas 100 times this fall, on Cornell's home field or on a neutral field, the Cornelians would undoubtedly lose all 100 encounters. In contrast, on any given day the New Orleans Saints could travel to Pittsburgh and defeat the Steelers...
...four surviving teams in the National Football League's Super Bowl tournament press on toward the ultimate game, the question is whether anyone ultimately survives at all. The last three Super Bowls were won by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers, none of whom made it back even to the play-offs the following year. John Madden, who celebrated the 1977 Super Bowl with Oakland after eight years of trying, slipped the next season and quit coaching the year after that. He says, "The real pressure is having to do it again and again...
About half the 43 homeowners on Coon's foreclosure list were unemployed. Many were Pittsburgh-area steelworkers who are unable to meet monthly payments on their $30,000 to $40,000 homes. Their arrears range from $5,000 to $8,000. The group represents just a small fraction of the area's estimated 50,000 jobless steelworkers, more of whom may soon be facing the same problem. Said Andrew Palm, director of District 15 of the United Steelworkers of America, about Coon and Papadakos: "It's tremendous what they did. We're elated...
...happy. Coon's office was besieged with complaints from angry lawyers and lien holders. "They said some very nasty things about me," the sheriff said, "but I expected it." However, some bankers and lawyers, perhaps aware of how popular Coon had suddenly become, were only mildly critical. Pittsburgh Attorney Bernard Markovitz, who handles foreclosures, said, "If Coon's intent is only to help them straighten out payment plans, I'm willing to let this slide." But he added, "Somebody has to pay. Nothing's for free these days. Other people have rights in this and they...