Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already, the limited coming-to-grips with bad loans has wiped out 1987 profits at many major U.S. banks. Analysts expect most of the largest institutions to post overall losses. Among them: Citicorp, BankAmerica, Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover and Chemical Bank. Last week Pittsburgh's troubled Mellon Bank, the twelfth-ranking U.S. institution, disclosed that it would be about $220 million in the red for the fourth quarter, after boosting its loan-loss reserves...
...leads to other complications, including cirrhosis, an often fatal degeneration of the liver that affects at least 10% of all alcoholics and is especially hard on women. "They die of cirrhosis earlier than men, even though they consume less alcohol," says Judith Gavaler, an epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School...
...town after town, Babbitt trudges on in an electoral blur, answering endless questions and shaking an uncountable number of hands. One recent night in New York City, his wife Hattie arrived and crept / into bed while he was asleep. He awoke before dawn to catch a plane to Pittsburgh. All they shared was a tap on the shoulder."Some mornings," Babbitt concedes, "you wake up and say, 'I can't take another day of this...
...grew up near the campus. "There was an occasional player I liked, like Art Monk, but I was into little-league football on Saturdays and wasn't very much aware of Syracuse." From an unsafe safety position with Pitt, Owens was made aware at homecoming this year in Pittsburgh, to a half-time tune of 24-3, eventually played out to 24-10. As homecoming opponents, the Orangemen have lost their charm...
...also reports that Dickinson received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1958. The book also says he holds a divinity degree from the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh...