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...find the new heartland of automaking in the U.S., just head south from Detroit on Interstate 75. As it courses through Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, I-75 follows a corridor that has served as fertile ground for so-called greenfield factories, built from scratch for high productivity. This is where GM put its new Saturn plant, but most of the new factories along I-75 are Japanese transplants...
...corridor so popular? One attribute is its character: rural and mostly nonunion. The Japanese are eager to hire young former farmworkers who appreciate the relatively high-paying auto jobs. (Black organizations have accused the Japanese of putting their plants in rural areas to avoid hiring minority workers.) In addition, many states were eager to offer tax and infrastructure incentives to attract new industry to the region, which suffered heavily during the 1981-82 recession. Today it hums with the sound of new cars starting...
...electrified; all trains must switch locomotives in New Haven, Conn. The U.S. needs a renewed political and financial commitment to making train travel rapid and economical. Developing a new generation of high-speed trains will be awfully expensive (especially building rail lines through the suburban sprawl of the Northeast Corridor), but the energy shortage will require it sooner or later. And the longer we wait, the worse the obstacles become...
Bearing signs reading, "No more closed doors, no more closed doors," the protesters silently lined a second floor corridor in Pound Hall for about 10 minutes as professors departed from the meeting. Both the students and faculty members, most of whom passed the protesters nonchalantly, avoided any direct confrontation...
...Stapleton International Airport. But after he was elected, Pena became a supporter of the popular project. Throughout 1984, as Denver secretly negotiated with neighboring Adams County for a new site, M.D.C. and Silverado quietly began buying up farmland that would eventually be selected as part of the development corridor leading to the airport. "Despite all the millions of profits they were showing on paper, M.D.C. and Silverado had been running on empty for a long time, and they looked at potential profits from the new airport as a savior," says a former key employee of M.D.C.'s housing...