Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laborers-members of Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers-rejected their contract Monday because it provided for a pay raise of only 65 cents an hour, compared with raises of 92 cents and $1.02 in skilled trades...
...success of Operation Intercept, President Nixon's project to shut off the flow of Mexican marijuana into this country, and a poor Mexican harvest have caused such a shortage of grass in the Boston area that local pushers have resorted to blending it with a number of look-alike substitutes...
Gross also confirmed reports that LSD was being sold as mescaline, TAC, and other mild hallucinatory drugs. "Since LSD is so inexpensive and easy to make, local pushers are marketing it under the name of drugs that produce less potent effects than LSD," he said...
...that is still there, but I haven't seen it since Youth Fare. The airlines took my money and added local color to their flights. I was reluctant to submit at first. One vacation I even shunned their offer and caught a train, but it was no use. Sooner or later all of us must go. Once the airlines showed me that travelling for just and hour felt better than the ordeal of bad air, sore knees, and a weary head. I was hooked, even if they did play Muzak in the odorless terminals. The romantic forms of travel...
Friday afternoon a group of local teenagers who had been refused admission to the restaurant, joined by several Harvard students. formed a picket line telling passers-by to "boycott Hazen's." Owner Frank Hazen said he established the minimum charge after he was informed that he could not legally exclude groups of people that he expects would be trouble makers...