Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organization in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary on Feb. 28, is the best seen there since John F. Kennedy's in 1960, while Glenn's campaign is not even second best. (Gary Hart's is.) In the South, where three key primaries (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) are scheduled for Super Tuesday on March 13, Glenn should be favored by the generally conservative electorate. Yet somehow he has lost a 39% to 33% lead over Mondale. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "Not only are the figures reversed from three months ago, they're stretching...
...does. He who cannot, teaches." So goes the infamous putdown of academics. Well, some professors at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa really can. The scholars and their students have come to the rescue of a local General Motors carburetor assembly plant where 200 workers were about to lose their jobs. The automotive giant, frustrated with operating deficits at its Rochester Products Division factory, had planned to close it down. But the academics came up with a number of cost-cutting ideas that helped stem the plant's losses, and now Rochester Products is being hailed...
...Alabama's students, who had previously had little access to on-the-job training, now have a site for class projects. Says Ron Watson, a graduate student in mechanical engineering: "It's the unromantic end of the business, but it's good for me. When I do my project, it won't just be a pie in the sky, it will be real...
...companies: Nynex of New York City will cover New York and parts of six New England states; Bell Atlantic of Philadelphia will serve New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia; BellSouth of Atlanta will have customers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisi ana, Mississippi and Tennessee; Ameritech of Chicago will reach the heartland states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin; Southwestern Bell of St. Louis will join Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma; U S West of Denver will cover the largest geographical area, 14 states in the Midwest...