Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region is not yet on a war footing. But unless someone can shuttle up fast ideas for keeping the peace momentum going, it could be before long...
Four years ago, geologists for Queensland Mines Ltd. came across a tiny plot of ground in Australia's remote northern Nabarlek region that turned out to be the richest uranium deposit in the world. Assuming that mining rights could easily be obtained from the aboriginal owners, the Australian company quickly signed contracts to sell $60 million worth of ore to Japanese firms. What the mining executives failed to take into account was the aborigines' reluctance to disturb the green ants who live near the site...
...sought out the company of other Southerners, most of whom felt the same was as I did about Harvard. I thought of the South then as being the land of Faulkner--old, subtle, deep, more concerned with ways of living than with achievement. It seemed to me a region haunted by failure and fading beauty--and Harvard, the center of success, was completely alien...
...cent of them have to submit cards to the NLRB stating that they want to unionize. The NLRB will then sponsor a union-forming vote if it rules that the group constitutes a unit of workers distinct enough to form a labor union. From Whence Came '78* Region Number Percentage Class of '77 Percentage New England 311 27.7% (29%) Mid Atlantic 338 30.1% (27.5%) South 127 11.3% (10.4%) Mid West 180 16% (17.6%) Mt. States 25 2.2% (3%) Pacific States 100 8.9% (8.8%) Territories 3 .4% -- Overseas 38 3.4% -- *Radcliffe had not compiled its geographical breakdown by press time...
...There are more celebrities -and more well known-on the L.A. shows. A huge pool of talent whose prime-time series have been canceled are glad to pick up this bargain-basement work. The computerlike electronics of the score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space-age technology. The emphasis on rewarding winners with the materiel of the good life-patio furniture, camping equipment and cars, cars, cars -suits the fabled Southern California lifestyle. It would never occur to a Manhattan-based producer that such stuff could be thought...