Word: pittsburgh
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...steel town, with a population of just 19,057 in a county with an unemployment rate of 13%, Reyers has grown to become one of the largest independent shoe stores in the U.S. It draws 1,000 to 3,000 customers a day, some coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, 75 miles away. This year, its 99th, it will record annual sales of $6 million to $8 million (vs. $355,000 for the average shoe retailer...
...Pittsburgh Steelers acquired offensive tackle Steve August from the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for an undisclosed draft choice...
...scientists with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh have rooted beneath the sediment of the Wind River valley to unearth a spectacular cache of fossils from the Eocene epoch, that critical time when many progenitors of modern mammals first appeared. Representing some 65 species and including about eight species previously unknown, the bones are the most diverse and perfectly preserved ever discovered from that time. Although they have only just begun to study their find, Richard Stucky, 34, and Leonard Krishtalka, 38, are already convinced that the bones will reveal precious clues to the evolution and extinction...
...Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 2, 2nd game...
...rule changers have made to the offenses, only in attempts has Brown been passed. Going on 13 seasons, Franco Harris has logged 549 more carries, and Walter Payton has counted 370 more in his tenth year. Both are breathing heavily on the yardage record, Franco wheezing slightly. Eternally a Pittsburgh Steeler, he is presently a Seattle Seahawk, having miscalculated the breaking point of the Rooney family's sentimental nature. Since Franco's familiar 32 was spoken for in Seattle, he took 34, his old college number but also...