Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Challenge to Boosterism. The need to balance population growth against its social cost will wrench the thinking of bankers, storekeepers and politicians. Slower growth for Houston, Akron or Miami? The idea violates all the tenets of local boosterism. A tremendous amount of entrepreneurial effort is harnessed to the expectation of an ever-expanding population, with more customers for business. Yet in some circumstances, the best way to keep localities attractive would be to restrain population growth. Another way would be to alter local tax policies. Since most communities depend chiefly on real estate taxes for their revenues, their leaders often...
...support. Mansfield learned 1) that researchers were trying to ferret out the magically strong adhesive produced by barnacles, in the hope of using it to secure fillings in teeth, and 2) that the Navy was backing barnacle research. Actually, barnacle-tooth research at the University of Akron has been funded, at a mere $40,000 a year, not by DOD but by the National Institutes of Health. The Navy has spent probably twice as much on its own barnacle research, and with good reason: scraping the adhesive crustaceans from hulls and buoys costs the Navy, Coast Guard and private shipping...
...long since won wide recognition as a classic display of corporate attack and counterattack. The aftermath of Northwest's unsuccessful campaign, which ended last summer, is becoming a textbook case in its own right. Keenly sensitive to Northwest's charges of poor management performance, the Akron rubber company has undergone an extensive purge in its white-collar ranks (TIME, Dec. 26). Now Northwest is beginning to show some managerial fissures...