Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Taylor is probably America's greatest living choreographer. He has received most of the major awards, including a MacArthur "genius grant." He has a town house in Greenwich Village. But before the adulation and creature comforts came decades of very hard scrambling. He was born near Pittsburgh in the depths of the Depression, and his parents separated when he was a small boy. Mama was too busy managing hotel dining rooms to spend much time with her son. Still, he recalls, "I don't remember ever being lonely -- I had health, privacy, and a mother I was wild about...
...polyester revolution" reached a fever pitch in 1979 when baseball fans were exposed to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Depending on the directives of management, the Pirates would wear black, white or gold pants or jerseys, either with or without pinstripes. The result was a wide variety of looks that may or may not have confused the Baltimore Orioles into losing the 1979 World Series...
...fact, both Oakland and Pittsburgh, the pioneers of the "polyester revolution," are now wearing gray-tinted road uniforms instead of their gaudy primary colors. Also, Oakland now wears buttoned-up uniforms with cursive writing on the front for the first time since the team left Kansas City...
...still face profitability challenges," Mellon Bank Chairman J. David Barnes warned shareholders a year ago in the Pittsburgh-based institution's annual report. It was an accurate prophecy. The nation's twelfth largest bank holding company (current assets: $34.4 billion) earlier this month reported a quarterly loss of nearly $60 million -- the first in its 118-year history -- and watched shares plummet in just nine days from nearly 51 to around 38. Last week Barnes, 57, faced a new challenge: finding a job. One of the nation's best-known families of financiers and philanthropists had taken charge again...
...system. Three reporters, Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger and Fredric N. Tulsky, spent more than two years pursuing the story. Their findings led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to assume control of the troubled local court system last April. The gold medal for public service went to a series by Pittsburgh Press Reporters Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis that exposed inadequate FAA screening of airline pilots for drug abuse and other medical problems...