Word: pittsburgh
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...they were well informed about services. They reportedly couldn?t get nursing care over the holidays and had to sleep in shifts to care for their only child. "My sense is that what she and her husband did was the product of a lot of stress," said University of Pittsburgh law professor Paul O?Hanlon, chairman of the disabilities council. "She had spent years fighting to keep Steven at home but felt the system wasn't really backing...
...JITNEY With all the fashionable cynicism around, August Wilson's warm-spirited embrace of his characters looks almost radical. This early work, given a "definitive" rewrite by Wilson and staged anew in Boston and Baltimore, immerses us in the day-to-day life of a gypsy cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., and proves once again that Wilson is one of our most accomplished, full-bodied dramatists...
...Upping the ante of the Internet game-venues isn't hard. Sonygames.com takes all its regularly televised shows and converts them into cyber-contests. "College Jeopardy," "Wheel of Fortune" and "Trivial Pursuit" can all be accessed via a glitzy game page. Compete with BABYSNATCH from Arkansas and Slappy05 from Pittsburgh for world domination with a virtual Alex Trebek. Otherwise, the most intriguing SonyGame is obviously "The Dating Game." By creating a "virtual you" with Japanimation body parts and facial features, meet the love of your life by answering questions such as "what is the most erotic thing about a spoon...
Other top-ranked programs in attendance included Michigan, Boise State, Arizona State, Wisconsin, Bakersfield, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh...
...bank had only $15 million in deposits. Then along came a miserly Pittsburgh, Pa., financier named J. Knox McConnell, who drove an old Buick and wore threadbare suits but was worth $23 million. He hired only women--"Knox's Foxes," they were called--to discourage distracting office romances. His longtime companion was Billie Cherry, a woman who worked for him. Cherry and her friend Terry Church followed Knox from Pittsburgh to Keystone. The bank moved aggressively into the national market for "subprime" home-equity loans, which are riskier than first mortgages but generate higher interest payments. Keystone was earning about...