Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, why not? One truck model--Ford's F-Series pickup, the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. last year--sold more units than any of GM's seven divisions except Chevrolet. GM's truck-transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, has operated every hour of every day for the past five years, and industry experts calculate that if GM could add two more truck plants, it could sell 450,000 more units a year, for an added profit of $3 billion...
...needed more strip malls, so those were promptly built. And pretty soon some of the friends and relatives of the settlers moved in, which meant a few more strip malls were required, not to mention houses and more roads. Before long, paradise started to look a lot like Toledo, Ohio. Or Los Angeles. Now many Westerners--led, perhaps peevishly, by the last wave of settlers--are fighting to slow development and stop the influx of new residents...
...They send these AFDC people back to school. How come we don't do that for the working poor?" asks Eloise Anderson, an African American who grew up in a poor neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, and now heads the California Department of Social Services. "They made the same bad decisions, except the working poor usually live with their decisions; they go to work, they say, 'Hey, I blew it, but I'm working...
...begins with one extraordinary icon-an odd word for a painting of a cabbage, a quince, a cut melon and a cucumber, but no other will quite do. It is by Juan Sanchez Cotan (1560-1627), a painter from Toledo who is known by only a few works, all of which are remarkable for their careful, precise, yet unpedantic construction. This is one of the finest. No still life was ever so still. The black space behind the framing window looks infinitely deep; two of the objects (the slice of melon and the yellow tip of the cucumber) stick...
...needy report dangerous signs of slippage in donations. At food banks across the country, there has been a sizable drop-off. At the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, for example, this year's funding drive brought in $450,000, a decline of $70,000 from 1993. In Toledo, Ohio, the number of families asking for emergency food baskets increased 10%. Donations? Down by almost half. Food baskets that used to include whole turkeys now provide turkey parts and surplus government commodities. Much of the decline in giving is explained by tighter efficiency in the food industry, which provides a good...