Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FATHER. My father is first-generation Italian. He was the youngest of six boys. My grandparents came from Italy on the boat. They went to Pennsylvania, a town right outside of Pittsburgh, because the steel mills are there and there was a lot of work. They lived in sort of an Italian ghetto-type neighborhood, and my grandfather got a job in a steel mill. My grandmother and grandfather spoke no English at all. They are dead now, but when I was a little girl I would see them all the time. They weren't very educated, and I think...
Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh...
...talked of refurbishing baseball's "family image," a polite way of saying that something must be done about a new type of fan turning up at ball parks: the loutish young male who sloshes beer on other fans, starts fistfights at random and hurls objects from the stands. The Pittsburgh Pirates have set aside "family sections," where no beer is allowed. The Seattle Mariners have 3,500 family seats at the Kingdome...
...baseball is braced for a disgrace of its own, more trauma on the order of the cocaine-related jail terms served by four former Kansas City teammates last year. Whether players or their suppliers are the direct targets of the new investigation, reports that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh is about to hand down several embarrassing indictments helped time Ueberroth's announcement last week. "Accelerated it," using his phrase. For four months, athletes as eminent as the Mets' Keith Hernandez, the Yankees' Dale Berra, the Orioles' Lee Lacy and the Expos' Tim Raines have been trooping to the witness...
...hoped to force Havana to abandon Marxism. Today, nearly 25 years later, the Cuban government is still Marxist, and it is one of Moscow's closest allies. The example is mentioned by Carmelo Mesa-Lago, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, as evidence that trade sanctions are at best only temporarily damaging. In the long run, he believes, the embargo against Nicaragua "will not work. History shows it did not work in the case of Cuba...