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A short-lived publicly funded “anti-defamation agency” in this city aimed to boycott companies that referred to it pejoratively, such as S.O.S. Soap Pads. A mayor of this city famously said “if this machine says a man lied, he lied” before failing a polygraph test, ending his gubernatorial bid. Gregore J. Sambor resigned from this city’s police department in the wake of an event prompted by the killing of James Ramp. During a confrontation with a group that followed “The (*) Guidelines,” a mayor of this city was heavily criticized for using a helicopter to drop a Tovex (10[2])bomb on a neighborhood (10[1])home, causing (10[1])a fire that took the lives of 11 people. In this city, mayors Wilson Goode and Frank Rizzo participated in a standoff against John Africa. For 10 points, name this city whose police department fought MOVE during the 1980s, the most populous in Pennsylvania. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit9510
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up as rational as the square root of two power bottoms9510
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken9910
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange10110
Joey SunModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere14610

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