Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are likely to be influenced by the decision. Indeed, Bethlehem Steel and the Steelworkers Union had timed their petition to the Trade Commission so that Reagan would be forced to make a decision in the middle of the campaign. In an appeal to Midwestern Rust Bowl voters the day before Reagan's announcement, Walter Mondale had called for the very import quotas the President rejected...
Tonight "Scoop" Hudgins comes in late-the legendary Scoop, the p.r. director for the college football Hall of Fame Bowl. "I tell people Coach Bryant and I were freshmen together at Vanderbilt, but it's not exactly true. It was his freshman year as coach, and my freshman year as student." Scoop offers to provide all possible information about football. Why else would someone travel to Birmingham? He has brought a Southeastern Conference football schedule for Margaret, who plays Humoresque as soon as he comes...
...U.A.W. walkout would hurt the industrial states of the Rust Bowl. Despite attempts to diversify into new industries, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri are still heavily dependent on the auto industry. Michigan factory towns like Pontiac and Flint, now enduring unemployment rates of 18.8% and 12.4%, respectively, could suffer an economic earthquake. Steel, rubber and glass producers could lose their biggest customer. GM, for example, buys about 10% of all the steel produced in the U.S. Sales in stores and restaurants are likely to slip when striking workers stay home, and tax revenues will slide...
Certainly some of the industries in the part of the country now known as the Rust Bowl are salvageable; others may not be. But with no industrial policy designed to help these revisable industries and no government or industry commitment to worker retraining programs, blue collar men and women can't help but feel abandoned. Should this feeling become pervasive and nothing be done about the unfortunate human consequences of post-industrialism things might heat up here...
...ABOUT this time next year, your daily bowl of Frosted Flakes may be suffering from a healthy dose of radiation, and your apple pie may be irradiated as well. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently proposed permitting companies to irradiate fruits, vegetables, and grains to kill insects. The plan, which is still up for public comment, would also raise the maximum permitted radiation dosage for the treatment of spices, which only last year were approved for the radiation therapy...