Word: minnesota
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Fooled you again. Miami stays in the Atlantic Division, and Charlotte and Orlando switch divisions. Finally, in the 1991-92 season, the league settles into its permanent alignment with Miami and Orlando in the Atlantic, Charlotte in the Central and Minnesota in the Midwest...
...geographic confusion is all part of the NBA's three-year "transition period" for three of its four new expansion teams, Charlotte, Miami and the Orlando Magic. Mercifully, the league will allow the Minnesota Timberwolves to start in the Midwest Division and remain there...
...Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...
...being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving his time. He is to be transferred to a medium-security medical center in Minnesota and assigned to its work crew. Unless the conviction or sentence is reversed on appeal, he will stay behind bars for at least ten years before becoming eligible for parole...
...Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves forage in a cattle-ranch and sheep-farm area, the highest annual payoff by a Government program set up to compensate stockmen for wolf kills has been a modest $21,000. (Problem wolves there are killed by federal hunters, as would be true around Yellowstone...