Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Dakota cashes in with an aggressive, pro-business program...
...financial capital: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "We used to have such an image of cowboys and Indians," recalls Bowden, "when I would go to New York, the guys in the bar would give me a big war whoop. Now they say, 'Oh, you're from South Dakota, where you have good tax laws and where industry is moving in.' " Kind of stilted talk for bar chatter, perhaps, but apt. Sioux Falls (pop. 81,000) and the rest of South Dakota are in the midst of a self-made, state-wide economic renaissance. Says Governor William Janklow...
Indeed he has. Citibank, which has moved its credit-card operation to the city, broke ground in June for its third building in three years. With 1,200 employees in Sioux Falls, South Dakota's largest city, the bank is now the state's No. 3 employer. By 1985 Citibank expects to hire as many as 600 more people...
...court ruled explicitly for the first time that the mere length of a prisoner's sentence can be so excessive, considering the crime committed, that it violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." Jerry Helm, 36, was convicted in 1979 in South Dakota of passing a bad check for $100. The crime ordinarily carries a maximum sentence of five years and a fine of $5,000. But Helm had six prior felony convictions (three for burglary, one for grand larceny, one for obtaining money under false pretenses and one for drunk driving...
...Vries has gone too far. Hordes of historians, squads of sociologists have despaired of a single answer. On the other hand, perhaps their field research did not alert them to a long-ago incident: the time is the early 1960s, the setting a small, deservedly obscure village in North Dakota. Anthony Thrasher, 15, lives here and calls the place Ulalume. This allusion to the verse of Edgar Allan Poe helps explain why the boy is still languishing in the eighth grade. He suffers from premature sophistication...