Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard Peachtree promotion, but it was a sales pitch nonetheless?not for new industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
Most figures show that the economies of the Southern and Western states, unlike those of the Northern states (including states in the Great Lakes region), are well recovered from the recent recession. For example, the Sunbelt's unemployment rate has hovered around 6%, while recent Northern rates are approximately 8%. Given the South's attractions for business, including its warmer, less energy-consuming climes and nonunionized labor, the regional imbalance may grow. So increasingly Northern states are looking enviously at one Sunbelt advantage that they believe can be reversed: the hefty portion of federal spending the South receives...
Moynihan, an advocate of federal loan guarantees to avert bankruptcy for New York City, recalled that many New Deal projects, like the Tennessee Valley Authority, were designed by a largely Northern Administration specifically to aid the South to recover from the Depression. He asked: "What will become of this tradition of national liberalism if the region from whence it emerged should look up two generations later and find that... resources flowed South [but] never North...
Civility may be in retreat on other fronts, but most newspapers still routinely decline to print the names of alleged rape victims. That courtesy is seldom required by law and rarely afforded the victims of other crimes. Herman J. Obermayer, 53, editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, an evening daily that goes to 20,000 households just south of the nation's capital, thinks it is time the custom ended...
...enormous. Winter unemployment in Essex County often runs as high as 20% of the work force. This year more than 200 people from the area are employed in Olympic construction, which has, according to Project Manager Ramon Lopez, brought $1.6 million in wages into the region since last spring. Northern New York companies have also benefited, winning 32 of the 38 contracts totaling $25,212,370 awarded by competitive bidding...