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...Frostbelt's aging manufacturing base has decayed and suffered from foreigh competition. Between 1970 and 1978, the Frostbelt altogether lost over 400,000 manufacturing jobs without much slack taken up by new jobs in the service sector. As the Joint Economic Committee once stated, "the northeast and midwest contain the oldest, least efficient manufacturing facilities, which are the first closed as production is reduced." Large, mobile corporations abandon these plants in favor of newer Sunbelt facilities, located where labor and energy is cheap, the quality of life slow and easy, and golf courses green year round. For every manufacturing...
Some grain exporters have picked up part of the trade slack by thinly disguised transshipments. During the twelve months preceding September 1979, for example, only 764,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat were shipped from Duluth, Minn., to Canada. But in the following twelve months, the quantity more than doubled, to 1.8 million tons. Says William Cortez of the Duluth Port Authority: "This is definitely not grain for Canadian consumption. You have to assume that it is being shipped elsewhere...
Coming out with guns drawn, the 'Throp scored on their first possession on a 35-yd. Charlie Slack to Mark Ashenfelter pass. Only minutes and two fumbles later--one by each team--Slack scrambled and hit Billy Marston for another tally. Peter Martin nailed that extra point for a 13-0 first quarter lead...
...ball to the Bell Boy 7 on three crisp plays, the Levthrops incurred four penalties while trying to complete one down, setting them back a full fifty yards. With second and goal on their own 43, the Winthrop/Leverett offense went into the shotgun, but Lowell defender Jeff Schwaber snagged Slack's pass to end the retreat...
...problem lies in Manley's effort to increase the percentage of government revenue from bauxite exports. In so doing, the prime minister raised the price of Jamaica's bauxite far above world levels, and Australia and Guinea--the two largest producers--were more than happy to replace the slack in supply that Jamaica's artificially high price had caused...