Pittsburgh Declared Most Livable City By Almanac
Pittsburgh experts and officials reacted to Rand McNally’s 1985 Places Rated Almanac naming the city the most livable in the United States. The ranking evaluated climate housing crime transportation health care recreation education arts and economics with Pittsburgh scoring high in education Arts and health care but weak in housing and economics. The city highlights historical firsts along the Ohio River while rival Philadelphia officials offered skeptical remarks.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Rand McNally
Jonathan Zimmer
Action Housing
Richard Caliguiri
Caliguiri
Philadelphia
W. Wilson Goode
Brotherly Love
Goode
Almanac
Richard Boyer
David Savageau
Yuba City Fires Maps After Worst City Ranking
Yuba City residents balk at Rand McNally ranking as the worst city in the nation. A bonfire of 400 to 500 Rand McNally maps drew about 1,000 people as community solidarity showed amid a pending $3.5 million lawsuit by Jack Moncrief alleging false and fraudulent designation harming local business and property values.
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Yuba City
Calif
United States
Rand McNally
Mary Knapp
Yuba-Sutter
Jack Moncrief
Moncrief
Rand
Richard Sander
Rand McNally & Co
Skokie
Ill
Don McCullough
Yuba City New Car Dealers Association
Lottery supporters and opponents clash in South Carolina letters
Readers from Aiken Graniteville and nearby towns debate a state lottery as a tool for education and tax relief. Advocates argue it funds schools and may reduce taxes while opponents warn it preys on the poor and fails to deliver promised revenue.
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Horace Randall
Salley
Roger Rollins
Aiken
George
Tina Weick
William Hubert Baker
Patricia Atkinson
Eunice W. Thigpen
Elizabeth S. Jones
Jack C. Flett
Raymond
Harold Ornes
Graniteville
Truitt Nobles
Annette Cheatham
Yancy Hite, Jr
South Carolina
Brent Dilendik
Martin W. Duncan
Warrenville
Linda Herndon
Langley
George Tyler
South
Harry Young
Divorces Drop Sharply Across Nation in Early 1980s
A study attributes lower divorce rates from 1981 to 1982 to later marriage starts and aging couples, not longer marriages. The number of children from broken homes fell from 1 180 000 in 1981 to 1 108 000 in 1982, with declines in Nevada Kansas Mississippi Idaho Iowa and more, while increases occurred in Vermont Rhode Island Pennsylvania Indiana Delaware Virginia and Utah.
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Nevada
Kansas
Mississippi
Idaho
Iowa
Vermont
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Delaware
Virginia
Utah
Ohio
Kentucky
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Justices Blame Themselves For Supreme Court Caseload
New York University professors Samuel Estreicher and John Sexton argue that Supreme Court justices shoulder excess work because they take on cases better left to lower courts. They cite a 1982-83 term analysis finding 39 of 165 cases wasted court time and urge maintaining lower-court percolation rather than a new national court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
New York University
Samuel Estreicher
John Sexton
Warren E. Burger
Sexton
Burger Law
Estreicher
Burger
Congress
John Paul Stevens
NYU
University
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