Word: northeasters
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...pick up the tab, like patsy older brothers, to fatten other parts of the U.S. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one for the next President, particularly if he hails from a place like Georgia. Sensing its deepening distress if not decay, can anyone fault the Northeast and Midwest for wanting at least to break even...
...born TV star Frank Perdue is not. He is bald, has an ample nose and speaks with a high-pitched, nasal twang. In the Northeast, where Perdue in white lab coat regularly appears in commercials, more than one viewer has noted his resemblance to the chickens he sells. Yet, thanks to some brilliant Madison Avenue copywriting ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," "My chickens eat better than you do") and believably homespun performances by the unlikely actor, Perdue Inc. has become the fastest-growing U.S. chicken producer...
...more than 1,500 students and with at least 5% minority students. Roughly two-thirds of the districts have by now taken substantial steps to desegregate. Of these, one-third are in the Southeast, where only 5% of the 306 districts surveyed have not significantly desegregated. In the Northeast and North Central states, about a third of the school districts have desegregated in the past decade, while in the West fewer than a quarter of them have done so. Interestingly, the courts provided the major impetus in about a third, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in a quarter...
Following tradition, the campaign will formally start on Labor Day. Confident of carrying the South, Carter will spend most of his time in the West, industrial Midwest and Northeast?particularly California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. To shore up his campaign in the urban Northeast, Carter has set up at his Atlanta headquarters an "ethnic desk" staffed by Terry Sunday, formerly a staffer at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Victoria Mongiardo, a nun who used to work for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs...
...College of Physicians and Surgeons (1931-51), who helped the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to develop into one of the nation's great hospitals; in Manhattan. Rappleye got his M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1918, worked in various hospitals in California and the Northeast, and taught hospital administration. Named dean of the medical faculty at Columbia at 39, he was a forward-looking educator who adapted the medical curriculum to keep pace with medical progress. In 1961, concerned with the disintegration of services in New York City's municipal hospitals, he arranged...