INDEX 27TH ANNUAL EDITORIAL INDEX The following is a compilation of 213 editorial features and commentaries published by Area Development in 1992. CASE HISTORIES 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part Il: Domestic Issues Holding the Line on Costs (Jan.) (Feb.) Effective Communication with Utilities Effects Cost New Challenges in Industrial Relations (Feb.) Savings (Feb.) Economic Changes Shake Soviet Labor (Mar.) Tough Times Drive Automakers Forward (Feb.) Fabricated Metals Industry Forges Ahead (Apr.) Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive The 1992 Dilemma — Political Strategy or Economic (Feb.) Logic (May) Public Power Pays Off for Industry (Feb.) Lighting the Way Through Manufacturing (May) New Challenges in Industrial Relations (Feb.) Partnerships — Key to State Economic Development High Grades for the Corporate Campus (Mar.) (May) Recreation, Leisure, and Other Lifestyle Amenities (Apr.) Responsible Solutions to State Fiscal Crises (May) Demand Builds for Warehouse Construction (Apr.) Reexamine and Reallocate (May) Fabricated Metals Industry Forges Ahead (Apr.) Deglorifying the Status Quo (May) What's Cooking in the Food Industry? (June) Small Business is Key to Economic Well-Being (May) Plastics, Rubber Industries Bounce Back (Sept.) Trade: Fair or Foul? (May) Eight Steps to a Stronger Company (May) COMMUNITY RELATIONS Careful Action Needed to Boost the Economy (May) Quantifying Quality of Life (Apr.) State of the Union: A Nation in Transition (June) Telecommunications Takes Center Stage (Apr.) What’s Cooking in the Food Industry? (June) Analyzing a Community’s Power Structure (July) Equipment Orders Reflect Manufacturing’s Mettle (July) Healthcare Reform — 1992 Status (Aug.) CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN Restoring Values to Public Policy: Finding a Common Back Offices Forward Company Growth (Jan.) Ground (Aug.) Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Prescription for National Healthcare (Aug.) Telecommunications Takes Center Stage (Apr.) Plastics, Rubber Industries Bounce Back (Sept.) Demand Builds for Warehouse Construction (Apr.) Progress Report for Growth Industries (Sept.) Telecommunications: Making the Site Selection Short-Term Manufacturing Growth Projections (Sept.) Connection (Apr.) What Can Be Done about the Federal Deficit? (Sept.) The NES: New Technology for Economic Growth (May) Party Platforms: Setting the Stage for Economic Growth The Build-to-Suit Movement Gathers Momentum (Oct.) (Oct.) Electronics Circuits Back to U.S. (Nov.) DIRECTORIES AND SURVEYS Real Estate Opportunities in Eastern Europe (Nov.) Directory of State Incentives (Jan.) Excellent Prognosis for Drug/Biomedical Industries 26th Annual Editorial Index (Feb.) (Dec.) Directory of Foreign-Trade Zones (Aug.) Can the New Administration Keep Its Promises? (Dec.) Directory of Economic Developers (Oct.) Electric/Gas Utilities Directory (Oct.) EDUCATION AND TRAINING Railroad Directory (Oct.) Disadvantaged Youth: Why Business Should Be Canadian Economic Developers Directory (Oct.) Involved (Jan.) European Economic Developers Directory (Oct.) Labor Quality Put to the Test (Feb.) Bahamas, Caribbean, and Mexico Economic Education: A Major Quality-of-Life Component (Apr.) Developers Directory (Oct.) The Role of Business in Public Education (May) A Comprehensive Reference Guide (Oct.) Preparing Tomorrow’s Work Force (May) Corporate Executives Rate Site Selection Factors (Dec.) Education: Change or Perish (May) The ABCs of Education Reform (May) ECONOMICS Business and Government — Allies or Adversaries? Economic Outlook for 1992 (Jan.) (May) FEBRUARY 1993 Work Force Quality: A Problem That Can Be Solved Congress Should Extend IDB Authority by Brian (May) McMahon, Executive Director, New York State Changes in Education will Have Far-Reaching Effects Economic Development Council (Mar.) (May) Looking Into Russia’s New Window on the West by Ed Planning for Tomorrow in Today’s Classroom (May) Saperstein, Partner, Ernst & Young, New York City Partnerships — Key to State Economic Development (Apr.) (May) Telecommunications Takes Center Stage by Barry Making Some Educated Changes (May) Harbaugh, Market Development Manager, and Brent Educating Tomorrow’s Work Force — Old Myths and McMahan, Director of Economic Development, New Realities (May) BellSouth Telecommunications (Apr.) If You Weren't Already Doing it — Would You Start? Adjusting to a Changing and Challenging World by (May) Robert C. Stempel, Chairman, General Motors Science Education: A Catalyst for the Future (May) Corporation (May) Evaluating Operating Conditions (July) Three Years of Total Quality Management by John F. McDonnell, Chairman and CEO, McDonnell Douglas ENERGY Corporation (May) Holding the Line on Costs (Jan.) How Government Can Help Industry by Renso Caporali, Effective Communication with Utilities Effects Cost Chairman, Grumman Corporation (May) Savings (Feb.) The Role of Business in Public Education by James L. Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive Johnson, Chairman and CEO, GTE Corporation (May) (Feb.) Preparing Tomorrow’s Work Force by Donald R. Beall, Natural Gas: Providing the Energy for Economic Growth Chairman and CEO, Rockwell International (May) (Feb.) Education: Change or Perish by Robert D. Kennedy, Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Chairman and CEO, Union Carbide Corporation (May) Rural America: In the Center of Things (Feb.) Lighting the Way through Manufacturing by Dexter F. Public Power Pays Off for Industry (Feb.) Baker, Chairman and CEO, Air Products and Utilities are Partners in Reducing Energy Costs (Feb.) Chemicals, Inc.; and Chairman, National Association Energy Outlook: The Search for New Reserves and of Manufacturers (May) Resources (Mar.) The ABCs of Education Reform by Robert C. Williams, The NES: New Technology for Economic Growth (May) President and CEO, James River Corporation (May) Fighting on Two Fronts: The Battle for U.S. Competitive- ENVIRONMENT ness by John T. Hartley, Chairman and CEO, Harris Natural Gas: Providing the Energy for Economic Growth Corporation (May) (Feb.) The Tenth Amendment: Dual Sovereignty to Dead Making a Clean Break with Pollution (Feb.) Letter by John Ashcroft, Governor of Missouri (May) Energy Outlook: The Search for New Reserves and Changes in Education Will Have Far-Reaching Effects, Resources (Mar.) by Terry E. Branstad, Governor of lowa (May) EXECUTIVE BYLINES Planning for Tomorrow in Today’s Classroom by Carroll Disadvantaged Youth: Why Business Should Be A. Campbell, Jr., Governor of South Carolina (May) Involved by Victor Grgas, President, National Council Partnerships — Key to State Economic Development by for Urban Economic Development (Jan.) Gaston Caperton, Governor of West Virginia (May) Corporate Restructuring: Evaluating the Real Estate Making Some Educated Changes by Edwin W. Component by James H. Renzas, Executive Vice Edwards, Governor of Louisiana (May) President, Paragon Decision Resources, Inc. (Jan.) Responsible Solutions to State Fiscal Crises by Financing Industrial Properties by Stephen J. Pearlman, Brereton C. Jones, Governor of Kentucky (May) Director, Jones Lang Wootton, New York (Feb.) Educating Tomorrow’s Work Force — Old Myths and Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive New Realities by Zell Miller, Governor of Georgia by Sally Hooks, Manager, Economic Development, (May) Edison Electric Institute (Feb.) A National Competitive Posture by William Donald Natural Gas: Providing the Energy for Economic Growth Schaefer, Governor of Maryland (May) by Michael Bally III, President, The American Gas Reexamine and Reallocate by David Walters, Association (Feb.) Governor of Oklahoma (May) Rural America: In the Center of Things by Bob Bergland, Deglorifying the Status Quo by Pete Wilson, Governor of Executive Vice President, National Rural Electric California (May) Cooperative Association (Feb.) The NES: New Technology for Economic Growth by Public Power Pays Off for Industry by Kennedy P. James David Watkins, Secretary of Energy (May) Maize, American Public Power Association (Feb.) If You Weren't Already Doing It — Would You Start? by 174 AREA DEVELOPMENT Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education (May) Back to the Growth Age by Stephen R. Collins, Making the Aerospace Sector Fly Again by Senator Larson, Ball & Gould, Washington, D.C., and Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) (May) Tysons Corner, Va. (Nov.) Small Business is Key to Economic Well-Being by Rep. Real Estate Opportunities in Eastern Europe by Jim Andy Ireland (R-FL) (May) Sineath, SIOR (Nov.) Rebuilding America — The Second American Taking on the Property Tax Burden by Vincent Revolution by Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins (D-Ml) Czaplyski, Appraiser and Property Tax Consultant (May) (Nov.) Trade: Fair or Foul? by Rep. Guy Vander Jagt (R-MIl) Real Estate Brokers Play Many Positions in the Location (May) Game by Daniel F. Wilkinson, Society of Industrial and Public Works and the Recession by Rep. Robert A. Office REALTORS®, 1992 National President, and Borski (D-PA) (May) Executive V.P., Wilkinson & Snowden, Inc. (Dec.) Helping U.S. Business Compete Abroad by William S. Broomfield (R-Ml) (May) FINANCING Eight Steps to a Stronger Economy by Rep. Tom Planning the Profits in Losses (Jan.) Campbell (R-CA) (May) Directory of State Incentives (Jan.) Science Education: A Catalyst for the Future by Rep. Bill Tough Times Drive Automakers Forward (Feb.) Green (R-NY) (May) Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Questions for Free-Traders by Rep. Duncan Hunter Rural America: In the Center of Things (Feb.) (R-CA) (May) Utilities are Partners in Reducing Energy Costs (Feb.) Careful Action Needed to Boost the Economy by Rep. Financing Industrial Properties (Feb.) Matthew J. Rinaldo (R-NJ) (May) Congress Should Extend IDB Authority (Mar.) Not Free Trade...Competitive Trade by John P. McCray, Overcoming Barriers to ADA Compliance (Apr.) Ph.D., McCray Research, San Antonio, Texas (June) Responsible Solutions to State Fiscal Crises (May) Independent Contractor or Employee — A Critical Reexamine and Reallocate (May) Difference by Nancy L.Van Nest,Esq., Van Nest Rebuilding America — The Second American Associates, P.C., Denver, Colo. (June) Revolution (May) To Buy or Lease: What to Look at Before You Close the Trying to Contain Employee Benefit Costs (July) Deal by Keith Keppler, Principal, Knight Frank Eximbank is Critical to American Competitiveness (July) Faulkner Baillieu, Los Angeles (June) Borrowers Exercise Choices in Real Estate Workouts To Lease or to Own? by Jeffrey Weerts, Director, The (Aug.) American Center Development, American Family Urban Aid: An Election Year Confrontation (Sept.) Mutual Insurance Company, Madison, Wisc. (July) Guaranteed Financing from the SBA? (Dec.) Analyzing a Community’s Power Structure by Stewart Lytle, President, Metro Group, Dallas, Texas (July) GOVERNMENT AIDS AND CONTROLS The Challenges of Rural Development by Carl Whillock, 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part |: International Issues President/CEO, Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (Jan.) (Aug.) Directory of State Incentives (Jan.) Borrowers Exercise Choices in Real Estate Workouts by Tough Times Drive Automakers Forward (Feb.) Judith D. Levine and Sara L. Todd, Benesch, Natural Gas: Providing the Energy for Economic Growth Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff (Aug.) (Feb.) Restoring Values to Public Policy: Finding a Common Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Ground by Jim Florio, Governor of New Jersey (Aug.) 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part Il: Domestic Issues Europe Offers Best Trade Opportunities by Jerry (Feb.) Jasinowski, President, National Association of Making a Clean Break with Pollution (Feb.) Manufacturers (NAM) (Sept.) Basic Depreciation for the 90s (Mar.) Commercial Real Estate Brokers Wear Many Hats by An Update on the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Mar.) Daniel F. Wilkinson, 1992 National President, The Congress Should Extend IDB Authority (Mar.) Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS® (Sept.) Workers’ Compensation Headaches (Apr.) Proactive Marketing Strategies Mean a Win-Win Education: A Major Quality-of-Life Component (Apr.) Situation for Tenants by Lynn Jones, Senior Asset Overcoming Barriers to ADA Compliance (Apr.) Manager, The Park at Northwest Point, Metropolitan Is Big Government Too Big? (Apr.) Life Insurance Company, Chicago (Oct.) How Government Can Help Industry (May) An Urban Marshall Plan by Congressman Christopher Fighting on Two Fronts: The Battle for U.S. Shays (R-CT) (Oct.) Competitiveness (May) The Build-To-Suit Movement Gathers Momentum by Business and Government — Allies or Adversaries? Stephen J. Tinsley, Tinsley Associates (Oct.) (May) FEBRUARY 1993 The Tenth Amendment: Dual Sovereignty to Dead Fighting on Two Fronts: The Battle for U.S. Letter (May) Competitiveness (May) A National Competitive Posture (May) A National Competitive Posture (May) Deglorifying the Status Quo (May) Making the Aerospace Sector Fly Again (May) Making the Aerospace Sector Fly Again (May) Helping U.S. Business Compete Abroad (May) Small Business is Key to Economic Well-Being (May) Questions for Free-Traders (May) Rebuilding America — The Second American America’s Neighbors — The Economic Partnership Revolution (May) (June) Trade: Fair or Foul? (May) State of the Union: A Nation in Transition (June) Public Works and the Recession (May) Not Free Trade...Competitive Trade (June) Eight Steps to a Stronger Company (May) Trying to Contain Employee Benefit Costs (July) The Rocky Path to ADA Compliance (June) Eximbank is Critical to American Competitiveness (July) Skirting the Pitfalls in Transfer Pricing (June) Foreign-Trade Zones Open Doors (Aug.) To Buy or Lease:What to Look at Before You Close the Enterprise Zones: Fostering Economic Development Deal (June) (Aug.) Shaping Legislation — And Deducting the Expense Short-Term Manufacturing Growth Projections (Sept.) (July) Europe Offers Best Trade Opportunities (Sept.) Foreign-Trade Zones Open Doors (Aug.) Electronics Circuits Back to U.S. (Nov.) Enterprise Zones: Fostering Economic Development Real Estate Opportunities in Eastern Europe (Nov.) (Aug.) Assessing a Product’s Export Potential (Nov.) Healthcare Reform — 1992 Status (Aug.) Government Export Regulations (Nov.) Restoring Values to Public Policy: Finding a Common The Trade Information Center: A One-Stop Shop for Ground (Aug.) Export Questions (Nov.) Prescription for National Healthcare (Aug.) More Companies Should Develop Export Markets Urban Aid: An Election Year Confrontation (Sept.) (Nov.) What Can Be Done about the Federal Deficit? (Sept.) Methods of Exporting & Distribution Channels (Dec.) Congress Considers Pension Reform (Oct.) Party Platforms: Setting the Stage for Economic Growth LEGAL ASPECTS AND TAXES (Oct.) Planning the Profits in Losses (Jan.) Fighting — and Deducting the Costs for — A Zoning Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Battle (Oct.) 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part Il: Domestic Issues An Urban Marshall Plan (Oct.) (Feb.) The 103rd Congress — New Directions (Dec.) Basic Depreciation for the ’90s (Mar.) Guaranteed Financing from the SBA? (Dec.) An Update on the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Mar.) Can the New Administration Keep Its Promises? (Dec.) The 1992 Dilemma — Political Strategy or Economic The Baldrige Quality Award Can Enhance a Company’s Logic (May) Reputation (Dec.) Skirting the Pitfalls in Transfer Pricing (June) Independent Contractor or Employee — A Critical INFRASTRUCTURE Difference (June) Holding the Line on Costs (Jan.) Shaping Legislation — And Deducting the Expense Back Offices Forward Company Growth (Jan.) (July) Telecommunications Takes Center Stage (Apr.) Trying to Contain Employee Benefit Costs (July) Telecommunications: Making the Site Selection Property Tax Savings — Year after Year (Aug.) Connection (Apr.) Depreciation of Intangible Assets (Aug.) The Current Realities of Site Selection (July) Bankruptcy: The Ultimate Restructuring (Sept.) Fighting — and Deducting the Costs for — A Zoning INTERNATIONAL Battle (Oct.) 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part I: International Issues Taking on the Property Tax Burden (Nov.) (Jan.) Containing Workers’ Compensation Costs (Nov.) Multinational Corporations Earn Greater Profits (Jan.) The Ins and Outs of Migration (Feb.) Why Are We Bashing the Japanese? (Mar.) MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING Economic Changes Shake Soviet Labor (Mar.) Corporate Restructuring: Evaluating the Real Estate Japan Should Criticize Less and Import More (Mar.) Component (Jan.) Looking into Russia’s New Window on the West (Apr.) Stopping the Downward Spiral (Jan.) Adjusting to a Changing and Challenging World (May) Holding the Line on Costs (Jan.) Lighting the Way Through Manufacturing (May) Multinational Corporations Earn Greater Profits (Jan.) 176 AREA DEVELOPMENT Effective Communication with Utilities Effects Cost (May) Savings (Feb.) Questions for Free-Traders (May) Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive The Caterpillar Strike — Inching Along Toward Disaster (Feb.) (May) Deducting or Capitalizing Expenses (Feb.) Getting the Facts Straight on Union Membership (June) Public Power Pays Off for Industry (Feb.) The Rocky Path to ADA Compliance (June) New Challenges in Industrial Relations (Feb.) Independent Contractor or Employee — A Critical Making a Clean Break with Pollution (Feb.) Difference (June) Financing Industrial Properties (Feb.) The Current Realities of Site Selection (July) High Grades for the Corporate Campus (Mar.) Evaluating Operating Conditions (July) Adjusting to a Changing and Challenging World (May) Trying to Contain Employee Benefit Costs (July) To Buy or Lease:What to Look at Before You Close the Changing Your Management Style (Aug.) Deal (June) Piecing Together the Location Puzzle (Oct.) To Lease or Own (July) Some Sources of Help for Achieving Quality in Changing Your Management Style (Aug.) Manufacturing (Nov.) Property Tax Savings — Year after Year (Aug.) Will Unions Realize the Fruits of Their Labor? (Dec). The Challenges of Rural Development (Aug.) Proactive Marketing Strategies Mean a Win-Win PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Situation for Tenants (Oct.) Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive Some Sources of Help for Achieving Quality in (Feb.) Manufacturing (Nov.) Rural America: In the Center of Things (Feb.) Assessing a Product’s Export Potential (Nov.) Quantifying Quality of Life (Apr.) Government Export Regulations (Nov.) Commercial Real Estate Brokers Wear Many Hats The Trade Information Center: A One-Stop Shop for (Sept.) Export Questions (Nov.) Real Estate Brokers Play Many Positions in the Location Taking on the Property Tax Burden (Nov.) Game (Dec.) Containing Workers’ Compensation Costs (Nov.) Curing the Employee Healthcare Headache: 20 Cost- SITE SELECTION Cutting Ways to Ease the Pain (Nov.) Corporate Restructuring: Evaluating the Real Estate More Companies Should Develop Export Markets Component (Jan.) (Nov.) Back Offices Forward Company Growin (Jan.) Back to the Growth Age (Nov.) Powerful Partners Help Companies Remain Competitive Methods of Exporting & Distribution Channels (Dec.) (Feb.) The Ins and Outs of Migration (Feb.) PERSONNEL AND LABOR Utilities are Partners in Reducing Energy Costs (Feb.) Economic Outlook for 1992 (Jan.) Telecommunications: Making the Site Selection Disadvantaged Youth: Why Business Should Be Connection (Apr.) Involved (Jan.) The Current Realities of Site Selection (July) Stopping the Downward Spiral (Jan.) Evaluating Operating Conditions (July) Back Offices Forward Company Growth (Jan.) Site Selection Checklist (July) Tough Times Drive Automakers Forward (Feb.) Analyzing a Community’s Power Structure (July) Public Power Pays Off for Industry (Feb.) The Challenges of Rural Development (Aug.) 1991 Legislative Wrap-Up — Part Il: Domestic Issues Piecing Together the Location Puzzle (Oct.) (Feb.) Site Selection Checklist (Oct.) New Challenges in Industrial Relations (Feb.) Proactive Marketing Strategies Mean a Win-Win Labor Quality Put to the Test (Feb.) Situation for Tenants (Oct.) The Ins and Outs of Migration (Feb.) Real Estate Brokers Play Many Positions in the Location Why Are We Bashing the Japanese? (Mar.) Game (Dec.) Economic Changes Shake Soviet Labor (Mar.) New Technology Adds New Dimension to the Location An Update on the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Mar.) Process (Dec.) Quantifying Quality of Life (Apr.) Recreation, Leisure, and Other Lifestyle Amenities TRANSPORTATION FACTORS (Apr.) Natural Gas: Providing the Energy for Economic Growth Workers’ Compensation Headaches (Apr.) (Feb.) Education: A Major Quality-of-Life Component (Apr.) The Surest Route to Transportation Efficiency (Mar.) Three Years of Total Quality Management (May) Public Works and the Recession (May) Work Force Quality: A Problem That Can Be Solved Evaluating Operating Conditions (July) FEBRUARY 1993 State Report Surveys New Mexico (Nov.) New York (Mar.) Alabama (July) North Carolina (Apr.) Alaska (Nov.) North Dakota (May) Arizona (Dec.) Ohio (Sept.) Arkansas (Nov.) Oklahoma (Feb.) California (Sept.) Oregon (Nov.) 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