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...1970s. And much of the membership is concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
When a big company packs up and flees Manhattan's high taxes and other irritations, where is it most likely to move its headquarters? The answer, surprisingly, is not some place in the Sunbelt but just 30 miles or so away, Connecticut's Fairfieid County. Long famed as tony bedroom communities for high-paid commuters to the corporate canyons of New York City, such towns as Greenwich, Darien and Westport have become boardroom communities for many of those same bosses: they have brought their offices closer to their homes...
...worst years, a certain begrimed anxiety hung in the air. New York City was an interminably terminal case, its official death notice reprinted weekly. Bonds came due; corporations bailed out for Connecticut, the Sunbelt, anywhere. Citizens could paraphrase the municipal hymn New York, New York: "The Bronx is up/ And the battery's dead." They envisioned weeds pushing up through the stones of Rockefeller Center, Roseland reverting to jungle. Watching the parade of garbage strikes and pedestrians high-stepping in a rage among the dogmerde, New Yorkers could imagine themselves being a little like the sailors on Joseph Conrad...
...with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Girls. On most of their dates, the Stones have rolled around ever-devilish Mick Jagger. But in Tucson, Ariz., the group added a bit of Sunbelt beauty to its act. Announced Jagger: "Now we're going to have a hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest was Linda Ronstadt herself, resting up at home with her parents before...
...first is high taxes. "The taxpayers are in revolt. You see that in the Jarvis Initiative in California, which would drastically cut property taxes. You see it in people leaving New York State by the thousands and fleeing Massachusetts for New Hampshire. The attraction of the Sunbelt is not just the sunshine but that there is no income tax in Texas. Just about anywhere in the country, if local authorities try to raise taxes, citizens come over the wall in protest...