Word: sunbelt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican right wing that loyally supported Reagan was very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said...
...blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China and director of the CIA, he also is a member of the Washington Establishment to which Reagan is a complete outsider...
...week's end the triple-digit temperatures that first appeared in the Sunbelt late in June had directly or indirectly caused the death of more than 1,000 people in a triangle of 20 states from Texas to New York and the Dakotas. Dallas, where temperatures have risen as high as 113°, has had 25 consecutive days of 100°-plus weather; Little Rock has had 17 such days. So serious has been the resulting human suffering that President Carter funneled $6.7 million in aid to the six hardest-hit states-Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Louisiana...
...that 586,000 of the city's teen-agers and adults qualified for federally created jobs: there are exactly 68,700 to be given out this year. To make matters worse, in the past decade Chicago has lost at least 500,000 jobs to the suburbs and the Sunbelt-most requiring the kind of unskilled manpower that attracted Southern blacks to Chicago in the first place...
LOVING YOUR ENEMY is no problem--but financing him is something else entirely. This is the revelation dawning on the anemic Goliath Big Labor as it squares off against Goliath Business in a drawn-out tussle over turf. While corporations move their facilities into Sunbelt territories where unions do not flourish, labor is making tentative approaches toward asserting its authority over pension investments, once the exclusive domain of management. Pension funds may turn out to be just the resource labor needs in its declining years...