Word: pittsburgh
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...whatever else came to hand, until police armed with batons broke up the concert. Forty-five people were injured, including a man who was stabbed. The rioting was the fourth major outbreak of violence on Run-D.M.C.'s "Raising Hell" tour this summer, following earlier incidents in Pittsburgh, New York City and St. Louis that left 39 injured...
Colleges, however, can -- and do. Duquesne University in Pittsburgh provided the model for the pay-now, go-much-later concept a year and a half ago, when it initiated a plan, originally for the children of alumni, by which a payment of $4,450 to the school bought four years' tuition 18 years later. Some 600 have signed up, including nonalumni students, who have since been brought into the program. Canisius in Buff'lo and the University of Detroit now provide similar plans. All three also offer rate-for-'ge variations. A 17-year-old bound for Detroit, for example...
...Says J. Henry Riefle, general manager of Manhattan's Hardach Travel Service: "No matter what People Express does, it will always be perceived as a low-cost, no-frills carrier. You can't expect a $300,000-a- year executive to worry about saving $45 on a flight to Pittsburgh...
...trouble early last year. "I was having problems going up the stairs," she remembers. "I would go up halfway and then stop and rest for a while or crawl up the rest of the way. Sometimes, just talking, I would be gasping for breath." So the Pittsburgh mother of two, whose history of coronary ailments includes two heart attacks, checked into the city's Allegheny General Hospital to have a bubble, or aneurysm, in her heart's left pumping chamber surgically excised and the tissue repaired...
Brian Daly, public relations manager for Rockwell International, experiences that synergy nearly every working day. When a reporter calls with a question that he cannot immediately answer, Daly plugs into a network that reaches from the company's Pittsburgh headquarters to its El Segundo, Calif., aerospace facility, linking 10,000 terminals, 7,000 personal computers, 60 high-performance minicomputers and one Cray X-MP supercomputer. Tapping that electronic brain trust, he can quickly get answers on anything from the status of Rockwell's satellites to the prospects for more B-1 bombers. "The value of networking is that...