Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started in the small town of Hastings, Pa, about 110 miles east of Pittsburgh. There, Restic was one of 10 children born to Louis Restic, a Ukrainian-born coalminer, and his Polish wife. He attended a one-room red schoolhouse in the city where all eight grades were taught by a Mrs. Mary Kline, a woman crippled by polio. Every day for all of Restic's eight years at the school, she would painstakingly write lessons on the board with her crippled right...
...three years after he had arrived as a national spiritual leader at the age of 30, he was so exhausted that he wasn't sure he could continue much longer. "I've always thought my life would be a short one," he told a group of churchmen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "I don't think my ministry will be long. I think God allowed me to come for a moment and it will be over soon...
...deny that other groups of people use such tactics. However, we do not believe that a riot in Pittsburgh that involved the United Mine Workers Association implies a crisis of violence here in Massachusetts as Wang would have you believe. Abortion protesters, on the other hand, have greatly increased their physical attacks on clinics, both in number and severity...
...their part, commercial banks have clearly found it profitable to participate in the fund boom. Roughly 125 large banks now offer their own branded funds, which are managed by outside investment firms. That trend has turned a little-known Pittsburgh firm called Federated Investors into the seventh largest fund group in the country. Federated has sold 80% of its $75 billion in assets through institutions under either its own name or the institution's brand. Either way, the banks typically take the lion's share of the sales fees...
During a United Mine Workers Association strike a few years ago, for example, local police had to call in federal and state agents to help control strike-related violence. Portions of Pittsburgh were transformed into a battlefield as striking workers detonated bombs to damage business property, threw molotov cocktails, hurled rocks at replacement workers and tried to warn them off by using nails to puncture their car's tires and threatening their lives...