Word: rustbelt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laws of Our Fathers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 534 pages; $26.95) follows Turow's three previous best-selling novels--Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof and Pleading Guilty --in its portrayal of life, death and the search for justice in the Tri-Cities area of Kindle County, an imaginary Rustbelt terrain of remarkable moral and spiritual ambiguity. Once again a sensational trial forms the ostensible center of the novel while Turow demonstrates how inadequately the order in the courtroom mirrors the messy reality outside...
Welcome to the upside-down '90s. Not since collapsing oil prices sent Texas and the rest of the Southwest into a slump nearly a decade ago has the U.S. witnessed such a stunning reversal of regional fortunes. The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...