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...case in point. In the spring of 1983, top officials of President Reagan's Justice Department, preparing to block the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, agreed to accompany Jesse Jackson on a tour of the Black Belt in Mississippi to investigate schemes to bar or dilute the African American vote...
...company better exemplifies the industry's successes and failures than Tyson, based in Springdale, in the heart of Arkansas' poultry belt. Tyson, whose 1992 sales of $4 billion are nearly twice the size of the Arkansas state budget, produces 20% of America's chickens. Last month, after sharing a dinner of grilled chicken with a TIME reporter, vice chairman John Tyson -- son of the chairman -- boasted that the growth in the company's earnings per share from 1980 to 1990 ranked No. 1 among FORTUNE 500 companies. Total profits have increased fourteenfold in the past decade...
...Belt-tightening measures saved $300,000 last academic year, the dean says. That adds up to less than two-tenths of 1 percent of a $180 million operating budget--and it still leaves $3.9 million to be accounted for in "savings...
...other words, between belt-tightening and attrition, the dean has cut about $1 million in "fat," and there's not much left...
...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...