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...reversed as nonmetropolitan areas grew by 14.4% and metropolitan areas by 10.5%. Since 1980, however, that "rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization; its future is likely to be one of steady population deconcentration...
...balance, "it is a big victory for both lawyers and consumers," exulted Washington Public Interest Attorney Alan Morrison, who argued Zauderer's case before the Supreme Court. Consumers do seem to get benefits from ads. "Where there is lots of advertising, fees are lower," asserts Steven Cox, an economics professor at Arizona State University, who conducted a six-city study of lawyer advertising funded by the National Science Foundation in 1981-82. A larger 1982 study for the Federal Trade Commission compared legal costs in 17 cities. For such matters as simple wills, uncontested divorces and unopposed personal bankruptcies, consumers...
Residents of Detroit have added to their city's reputation as a rough place. So far this year three burglars have been shot and killed by angry homeowners. Marie Morrison, 78, shot a 16-year-old youth who tried to force his way into her house. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young praised her action, declaring, "Every person has a right and an obligation to defend their own home." Daniel Kindred, 41, killed Ronnie Trapp, 19, when he saw Trapp climbing out of a basement window of the Kindred house. Last week Wayne County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Elliott Hall decided...
Literature about the Black middle-class has tended to be self-consciously critical, defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged, materialistic Black member of the bourgeoise. But Lee succeeds in transcending this "bitch" stereotype with Sarah Phillips...
...been working in practice, really hard," agreed classmate Tom Morrison, "and it feels good to go out there and score a basket and get your feet...