Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greene, a radio producer who used to work on A's broadcasts for station KSFO, San Francisco, this year added the Pittsburgh Pirates to his service and got a beer company to help defray costs in exchange for a plug. Eventually he hopes to expand to all 26 major league parks. So far, most of the media Mittys are male, but females are also starting to find their way into the booth. "Women announcers are generally quite good," says Greene. "The difference is they seem to take more of an interest in the aesthetics of the % players' physiques...
...random roadblocks and for resisting the assignment of foster children to gay couples. So successful has Bush been in making the A.C.L.U. into a boogeyman that even his friend Dick Thornburgh, the new Attorney General, has had to scramble away from the group. He was a director of the Pittsburgh A.C.L.U. chapter from...
...hours in delays, a number that is expected to rise to 3.9 billion hours by the year 2005 if no improvements are made. (Today's average motorist will spend an estimated six months of his lifetime waiting for red lights to change, according to a study by Priority Management Pittsburgh, a time-management consulting firm.) All that stop-and-go travel wasted nearly 3 billion gal. of gasoline in 1984, or about 4% of annual U.S. consumption, according to the latest Transportation Department estimate. Last year planes waiting to take off or circling for a landing used some 500 billion...
...discovered a formula where normally fierce industry competitors can work together with the Government. Fear ((of foreign rivals)) can be a very persuasive motivator." Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis apparently thinks the idea could serve older industries as well. On a tour of a specialty-steel plant in Pittsburgh last week, he promised that as President he would create a national steel-technology research center...
...subject to interpretation as laws and rules. For instance, gamblers are generally not the National Football League's favorite types, and yet in 1933 the man who became the most beloved and benevolent citizen of the league bought his way into the business with winnings from horse bets. The Pittsburgh Steelers' owner, Art Rooney, really the city of Pittsburgh's Art Rooney, died last week at 87, still penciling the racing form. Rooney shared his hugest track windfall with his brother, a China missionary who unknowingly repaid him in soybeans. Based on a Hong Kong weather report from Father...