Word: pittsburgher
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With the current recession shaping up as a regional rather than a national phenomenon, the real suffering is largely limited to a crescent encompassing the aging industrial cities tied to the auto industry -Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago-plus many of the farm states. Farmers are suffering from the ancient miseries of drought and locusts in addition to the more modern plagues of low commodity prices and high interest rates. The situation is particularly grim in the Dakotas and Minnesota, where spring wheat is coming up brown for lack of rain...
Studying sleep patterns, Psychiatrist David Kupfer of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh made an intriguing discovery. Though such popular antidepressants as the tricyclics have been a boon to the mentally ill, they usually take several weeks to produce results. If the initial drug does not seem to work, the doctor may begin trying others-until there is nothing left but shock therapy. Kupfer, on the other hand, found that even when there is no apparent change in a patient's mood, the drug almost immediately delays the onset of dreaming...
...teams have met once before in post-season play. In 1975, the Islanders stunned the hockey world in only their third year of existence by upsetting the detested New York Rangers in the preliminary round and then, against Pittsburgh, becoming only the second team in sports history to capture a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games...
...Pittsburgh 7, Los Angeles...
...Pittsburgh 5, Montreal...