Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville trumpeted the virtue and necessity of political participation, Americans have been, well, participating, albeit in somewhat contrived fashion. Involvement in the political process rejuvenates the individual and strengthens the country. With a zeal even Tocqueville might have underestimated, the elephants trundled to the Motor City last week to climax long months of participation--or, as one clever delegate with an ear for language said, "participaction...
...WOMAN sporting what had become a familiar "Reagan-Bush" button wandered up and down the aisles before the plane departing Detroit for Boston was ready to take off. Left behind were the glimmering towers of the Motor City's Renaissance Center, the "good" parties, the four days of unceasing rhetoric and unbridled optimism...
...symbiosis between city and cars is, of course, what makes the Motor City unique. "It is both a great blessing and a great problem," says Edward Cushman, a political science professor at Detroit's Wayne State University. In normal times, more than one-third of the city's 1.8 million wage earners hold jobs directly related to the auto industry. When the assembly lines are rolling, the area's autoworkers, many of whom are black, can take home as much as $30,000 a year. When layoffs are temporary, the combination of company, union, state and federal benefits gives workers...
...Detroit's downtown. So, too, has the unusual rapport between black city officials and the community's white business executives, who rarely live within the city limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just...
DETROIT--Curious how the unwavering mood of most Republicans gathered for the national convention in the Motor City is unswerving conservatism. Sensing a coast-to-coast crystallization of right-wing thought, GOP delegates seek to ride the tide to the Oval Office. While the rarified atmosphere of a convention can blur vision, it appears that today's smart money is on Ronald Reagan to win the presidential sweepstakes...