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...wife beater probably drinks, although, as Groetsch points out, "he drinks to beat, he doesn't beat because he drinks." Unemployment does not cause battering, but hard times make it worse. In Youngstown, Ohio, for example, where the unemployment rate in 1982 reached 21%, domestic violence increased a staggering 404% over...
...that when the shield of his capsule heated up alarmingly as Glenn re-entered the atmosphere, his pulse rate rose by only one beat. He said he was deeply troubled about the country's eroding industrial base. He had witnessed the huge dislocation in his own cities of Youngstown and Akron and now in other shut-down plants around the country. "These high-tech promises are too easy," he said. "The fact is that millions of people will never get these same jobs back." He was into his homework now. Government could not just stand by, he said. There...
DIED. Michael Patrick Bilon, 35, the 34-in.tall actor who played the title role in E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial; of complications from a blood infection; in Youngstown, Ohio. A former radio announcer, sheriffs dispatcher and bowling alley bouncer, Bilon played, or rather wore, the 40-lb. hero in most of his movement scenes, an experience he compared with spending time in a steam bath...
...beginning of the century was every bit as accurate for the rest of the Midwest. With its raw energy and perpetual motion, the nation's heartland was synonymous with prosperous cities. Over the years, Chicago became identified with hogs, Toledo with glass, Detroit with automobiles, Akron with rubber. Youngstown with steel, Peoria with Caterpillar tractors.Today, however, in the cities that once were flagships of the region, unemployment has risen higher than in any other area of the U.S. Hit first and hardest by the recession, the Midwest may be the last region in the country to recover. Nonetheless, there...
...should learn that they do not have to take the conventional interpretation as fact." A related complaint is that TV reporters tend to overemphasize the significance of a single statistic, like one month's index of leading economic indicators, or an unrepresentative situation, like the unemployment rate in Youngstown, Ohio. Perhaps in part out of professional rivalry, print reporters also claim that their TV colleagues rarely break new ground. Says a Wall Street Journal writer: "I do not feel that watching the nightly news is a necessary part...