Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pittsburgh 32, Cleveland...
Maybe our football program should look to Foxboro for answers, too. When the Patriots got cheerleaders, they went from a promising young team to a good club that couldn't win the big game and on to a team that now can't buy a win. The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only franchise now in the NFL without a pom-pom squad. They are also the only team ever to win three Super Bowls. If we did away with sideline distractions, would we be able to beat someone besides Penn at home...
...Pittsburgh 34, Atlanta...
...winner offered only equivocal support for a defeated measure that would have legalized casino gambling and helped fill the coffers of his financially strapped city. Among the other incumbent mayors re-elected were Republicans George Voinovich of Cleveland and Margaret Hance of Phoenix, and Democrats Richard Caliguiri of Pittsburgh, Donald Eraser of Minneapolis and Charles Royer of Seattle. Former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane, a Democrat, returned to office with 66% of the vote. In Hartford, Conn., Democratic State Representative Thirman L. Milner, 48, easily defeated two opponents to become the first elected black mayor of a major New England city...
Exactly 100 years ago next week, a ragtag group of tradesmen and industrial workers met in Pittsburgh under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...