Word: woodhaven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industries as autos, steel and textiles. In the auto business alone, 255,000 employees, or 23% of the blue-collar work force, are on indefinite layoff. Company and union officials concede that most of these workers will not be recalled, even if the economy recovers. Says David Herlick of Woodhaven, Mich., a Ford worker who was laid off 15 months ago: "There's no light at the end of the tunnel. There's just a big iron gate...
...conservative constituents, even though he is still the least liberal member of the Democratic leadership. That is why he is now in the toughest re-election fight of his career-and why his Republican opponent, Jim Bradshaw, 40, last week could hold the attention of 300 people at the Woodhaven Country Club who otherwise would have been watching the televised season's opener between the archrival Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. Said Bradshaw: "Jim Wright voted against the B-1 bomber. Jim Wright voted for funding the Panama Canal treaty. Jim Wright voted to give foreign...
James Caygill, public safety director in suburban Woodhaven, Mich., joined the Army right after high school. Later his hope of earning a college degree faded with the pressures of holding down a job and raising five children. True enough, he was free on Saturdays and Sundays, but he knew of no place that offered instruction at such times. Then in 1975 he heard about Weekend College, a pioneering effort of Wayne State University in nearby Detroit. Caygill enrolled, kept up a 3.65 average for five years and in June 1979 became one of 675 graduates who have been awarded...