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...extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition job. As for Reynolds, his Southern drawl is not all that different from a Western one; both are the accents of the Sunbelt frontier. He too is usually a loner, as isolated behind the steering wheel of truck or sports car as any cowboy astride his horse?and just as free to change course...
Carter Hawley sees Marshall Field as a worthy addition to its list of platinum-plated logos, which includes Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and New York's Bergdorf Goodman. C.H.H. also would gain geographically: Field stores cover the Midwest while Carter Hawley's sales come mainly from the Sunbelt. Field's earnings have been depressed in recent years by vigorous and not entirely successful expansion. Yet the company has a good chance of turning the corner under the management of President Angelo Arena, ironically an alumnus of Neiman-Marcus, which he headed until this fall...
...Urban Flight. Young couples are moving back into the city, reversing a decline in population that started in 1975. The Brookings Institution declared last year that Seattle and Omaha were the two cities outside the Sunbelt that provide better education, greater employment opportunities, higher-paying jobs and less crowded housing than their suburbs...
Organized labor views J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second biggest textile company, as the key to organizing the booming Sunbelt-precisely because it is, in the eyes of the AFL-CIO, the nation's "No. 1 labor-law outlaw." If this most antiunion of all companies can be organized, the theory goes, so can any other firm in the sparsely unionized South or anywhere else in the U.S. Accordingly, unions have called for a nationwide boycott of Stevens' goods, and sought and won several court convictions of the company for unfair labor practices...
...bills, transportation charges-much faster than food prices. Other chains have raised profits nonetheless, largely because they started much earlier than A.&P. in replacing dim, crowded stores with modern markets that get more volume per sq. ft. of selling space and have many more branches in the prospering Sunbelt. A. & P.'s markets are still heavily concentrated in the economically depressed mid-Atlantic states. Says Analyst Fred Kopf of Reynolds Securities: "It would have been easier for A. & P. if the world had stood still...