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...primaries motivates a large number of the South's more than 2 million unregistered blacks to get on the rolls, it could affect a close election. The Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank, estimates that the number of unregistered voting-age blacks in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi is greater than Reagan's total margin of victory...
...Louisiana's Dixieland music and crayfish gumbo have drawn millions of tourists over the years, but the state has had far less success in attracting new businesses and jobs. To help it compete with high-tech meccas such as California and Massachusetts, the Louisiana legislature has approved a jazzy venture-capital program. The new law, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., will provide income tax credits of up to 35% for individuals or companies investing in venture-capital firms in the Bayou State. Louisiana has long lacked investment money for young, speculative businesses. Much...
...businesses, the tax break excludes such industries as real estate, banking, oil and gas. Otherwise the state has put few restrictions on the money. Says Governor David Treen: "Other states have placed the decision making in the hands of government, which then tangles the programs in red tape." In Louisiana, it will be up to private investors to pick winners...
...shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first in frogs' legs...
That recognition prompted the Cajun State to provide matching funds for Williams project In the post funding has crime from the other states in which the research has been carried out--Mississippi, and Louisiana. The private sector and other scientific associations have also contributed money...