Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Phoenix, Arizona, to Salt Lake City,Utah, to Boise, Idaho, the region is riding the crest of an unprecedented boom. A recent Sunday edition of the Arizona Gazette carried 46 pages of help-wanted ads with large sections devoted to health-care professionals, software engineers and telemarketers. Machine-shop operators in Colorado are hurting for skilled workers--and weeping because they can't find them fast enough to expand. Las Vegas, which already boasts more than 100,000 hotel rooms (as many as San Francisco and New York City combined), has become a construction worker's dream, with plans...
...deli worker. Schnuck gives $10 gift certificates to employees whose referrals are hired; plus $50 to the employee and new worker after 90 days; plus another $50 to the newcomer after six months and yet another after a year. But it's still hard to hold help in a region where the boom in tourism and riverboat gambling lets workers quit jobs on Friday and find new ones the next week...
With a population of 130 companies and 92,000 employees clustered in and around it, North Carolina's Research Triangle Park is the region's showcase for jobs and technology. Nearby are the resources of Raleigh and Durham and three universities. (Some 660 classroom trailers handle the student overflow at local public schools in a testament to the hectic growth of the area.) The East Coast headquarters of Cisco Systems, planning to boost its work force from 550 employees to 2,000 in the near future, is hiring at an even faster clip than company plants in Silicon Valley...
Central Florida is hot. With Orlando--one of the world's top tourist spots--at its heart, the region expects to add more than 232,000 jobs (an increase of 28%) in fields as diverse as software, optics and leisure by 2005. Even with 500 newcomers arriving each day, "there is a job here for everyone who wants one," says Dan Lynch, president and ceo of the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida. Even the marquee of Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando sports a help-wanted sign--for a hall monitor...
...meant no disrespect," I said. "That particular region has produced many noted poets. I happen to be from Missouri myself, just one state away. So was T.S. Eliot, even though he did eventually move to England and start talking funny...