Word: northern
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Johnson is a product of northern Alabama's Winston County. In that rocky hill country, few 19th century landowners had slaves, and Winston attempted to withdraw from Alabama when the state seceded from the Union. Much of the county became Republican; at one point. Johnson's father was the only Republican in the Alabama legislature...
Without increasing the federal budget, the Government might sensibly redirect some of its stimulative spending?a bit less for the booming Sunbelt, a bit more for the Northern and Midwestern states, where the urban underclass is concentrated. In 1975, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from the Midwestern states, 760 returned; the Northeastern states got back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors...
...serving a life sentence in Italy, was long gone. He and his German wife Anneliese, 52, who had spirited him out in the suitcase, turned up in West Germany the same day and were believed to be safely ensconced in the gray stone-and-brick apartment house in the northern town of Soltau where Frau Kappler practices homeopathic medicine...
...fresh season of volcanic activity has begun. On Japan's northern island of Hokkaido last week, thousands of acres around Mount Usu lay under a cover of gray ash, and Usu continued to steam and rumble ominously. Italy's Mount Etna has erupted for the third time in a month, sending a stream of lava three kilometers (two miles) down the mountainside and shooting a pillar of flame and smoke 450 meters (1,500 ft.) into the air. Both provided evidence that, regardless of progress in other areas, man is still powerless to control the fires beneath...
Especially in industrialized northern Italy, black labor exists only with the eager cooperation of official business. Companies lease sophisticated and expensive machinery and make direct loans to help families set up cellar factories whose workers labor all hours to meet delivery dates. Even the biggest Italian and other European-owned subsidiaries may buy components from suppliers who use black labor (U.S. subsidiaries prefer to play by the official rules). For some companies, use of the secret labor pool can spell the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Italian industry is bound hand and foot by prounion laws that make it virtually...