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Last month 30 unions began a drive to organize Sunbelt workers, starting in Houston. They will spend more than $1 million a year in the effort...
Initially geared to produce 20,000 sandwiches daily, the Lodi, N.J., Chipwich factory has scheduled an increase in output to 200,000 on Oct. 1, and the company is preparing supermarket and cart distribution in Sunbelt states. "It's been one of those American dreams," says Chipwich's creator Richard LaMotta...
...aging: "Each state is acting almost to invent its own wheel." Yet some local budget chops are beginning to become painfully clear. States in the Northeast and Midwest will probably be forced to cut social services most severely, since these states tend to spend more on the needy than Sunbelt states and are not so prosperous. In New York's Monroe County, for example, officials have already cut off funds for a treatment program for child abusers, and in Massachusetts, Human Services Secretary William T. Hogan has announced he will reintroduce a program of mandatory, nonpaying public service jobs...
Hinckley, the solitary third child of an oil-rich Colorado family, had spent the past few years idling through the Sunbelt, collecting guns, living on junk food, watching television. He became obsessed with Actress Jodie Foster, who starred in Taxi Driver, a movie about a loner who tries to shoot a presidential candidate. Hinckley wrote again and again to the unknowing Foster, the last time from Washington: "I will admit to you that the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you." Then he took...
...most of them run for profit by private physicians, these places are known as freestanding emergency clinics, or FECs, because they are physically separate from hospital facilities. FECs appeared in Delaware and Rhode Island in the early and mid-1970s, but now the big growth area is the Sunbelt, particularly Texas...