Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs precedents in an auto insurance case. He dials the Westlaw telephone number, identifies himself by code, then types: "Courts (Iowa) underinsurance." The computer promptly tells him there is only one such Iowa case, and it is 14 years old. Manly asks for a check on other Midwestern states, and it gives him a long list of precedents in Michigan and Minnesota. "I'm not a chiphead," he says, "but if you don't keep up with the new developments, even in a rural general practice, you're not going to have the competitive edge...
Many of them stand to be disappointed. In general, sales are better on both coasts then they are in the Midwestern middle, the "rust bowl," hardest hit by joblessness and industrial anemia. Almost nowhere, though, are sales truly brisk. Unusually warm weather in the East, which has produced temperatures in the springlike 70s, has hurt them in two ways. It has cut into sales of winter clothing. It also made Christmas seem not so near, reducing what Economist Alan Greenspan calls the "sense of urgency" needed to press people into stores...
...small and medium-size cities were good prospects for this revamped system. Says William Howard, Piedmont's president: "We looked for those routes that were underserved, where there was a need for flights." New territory opened up as the big trunk airlines cut small-volume flights to such Midwestern cities as Grand Rapids, Flint, Toledo and Fort Wayne. Last July Piedmont inaugurated its second hub at Dayton. Says Howard: "Those service-devastated Midwestern cities form the heart of our new service...
...Administration sympathizes with the Midwestern utilities, but has modestly stepped up its funding for acid-rain research, from $18 million in 1982 to $22 million in 1983. It is the only area outside the defense budget where an increase is planned. The money is beginning to produce results. New research in the U.S. and West Germany strongly suggests that acid rain combines with traces of toxic metals emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning plants to leach away nutrients that sustain trees. In addition, scientists believe the mixture of acid rain and aluminum trace elements in the soil...
Perhaps the most surprising Midwestern result was the upset of eleven-term Republican Congressman Paul Findley in Illinois. Findley had advocated U.S. ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a stand that brought him campaign contributions from pro-Arab groups-but also provoked Jewish organizations to pour money into the campaign of his Democratic challenger, Springfield Attorney Richard Durbin. The race turned, however, not on Middle East policy but on Reagan's budget cuts...