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...Wheeling-Pittsburgh is America's seventh largest steelmaker (1984 sales: $1 billion) and also one of its most modern. In the early 1980s, the company went heavily into debt to install a new rail mill and two continuous casters. The effort, coming in the midst of the steel industry's problems, was too little and too late. Losses mounted, reaching about $166 million during the past three years. Last week the company filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy law, the largest bust in the industry's history...
...Pittsburgh product, who spent all of December and January out of commission, it was worse for the Crimson, which went 5-9-1 during that stretch...
Frances, along with co-authors Michael Merit, director of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Paul Campbell, lecturer on management, cited several areas of rural America that are particularly vulnerable to bioterrorism...
With The Game, you see, there’s no flashiness. There’s none of that hip, all-important street credibility which inspires people to wear visors backwards and suddenly makes Pittsburgh Pirates uniforms from the 1970’s sell like hotcakes...
Katrencik’s idea was born in the 1990s, when she saw the furnaces in her hometown of Pittsburgh being torn down and replaced with strip malls. Unnerved by the creeping consumerism that she sees as a “consumption” of people, Katrencik decided to fight against architecture’s role in this movement...