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...Other Sunbelt states are worse off. The unemployment rate in Alabama has reached 14%, the highest in the South, because of cutbacks in construction and manufacturing. The state prepared for another blow last week when U.S. Steel, which has already furloughed 3,500 of the 8,200 union workers at its huge Fairfield works, announced that it is considering closing the plant entirely. In Polk County, Fla., unemployment has hit 13% because of slumping demand for fertilizer made from phosphate mined in the area...
...about twice as many as there were two years ago. The 30-odd manufacturers of the Dacron-and-aluminum birds, which range in price from $4,000 to $6,000, expect to sell some $90 million worth this year. Unlike many outdoor fads, ultramania is not limited to the Sunbelt, although California, Arizona, Florida and Texas are strong states; the Midwest, particularly the St. Louis area, is also ultra country, possibly because the craft fares best over flat terrain...
Some experts, though, are starting to warn that a paucity of engineers may hold back American economic and technological development. High-tech companies in the Sunbelt and the Northeast seem most concerned. Says William Howard, a vice president of Motorola who is based in Arizona: "The shortage has slowed down our progress, slowed down our development of new processes and slowed down our ability to do maintenance. The net effect is to put things on hold or do them more slowly until we can recruit the talent." A study prepared for California Governor Jerry Brown Jr. showed that the state...
...eleven days last December, Kahn hit the road on a five-city swing that took him from the economically depressed Northwest to the booming Sunbelt. Said he of the assignment: "I hoped to find something to make me feel better. I was pretty depressed about the state of this country...
Pontiac, Mich., a lunch-bucket industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after...