Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rush willingly into creating its own watchdog; it only acted when Common Cause collected 95,506 signatures in support of a new ethics statute. The legislature did, however, squeeze through a watered-down bill in order to avoid seeing the tougher Common Cause proposal on the November ballot. As local attorney Robert Moncreiff explains, "while a lot of people woke up this January and felt the law had dropped out of the sky, it was clear that it would have been on the November referendum list if the legislature didn't act quickly--and nobody wanted that...
...knees this year. In fact, he has brought a couple of fencing giants to their knees on his victory rampages in the East. A couple of months ago he crushed the number-three-ranked foil fencer in the country, MIT's Mark Smith, 5-2, in a local tournament...
...some city dwellers, owning an apartment is an even better hedge against inflation than owning a house. In Chicago, the little local joke is that condos are the hottest thing since Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated fire. They are appreciating at an annual rate of 14% to 15%, vs. 12% for single family homes, and turnover of the city's 43,000 condos is almost double that of other residential real estate. In Boston's Wellesley Green condo, a three-bedroom apartment in what its developers, Spaulding & Slye Corp., describe as a "luxury, luxury condominium...
...begin his film, everything goes wrong. He follows Mrs. Yeager to her gynecologist, only to learn that the doctor (Johnny Haymer) has already enjoyed TV stardom in a 60 Minutes expose of "baby slave auctions." Yeager himself proves to be the most colorless veterinarian ever recorded on film. Local eyewitness-news teams descend on the Yeagers, transforming a TV stunt into a media circus. Finally, an exasperated studio chief (played as a disembodied speaker-phone voice by real-life Studio Executive Jennings Lang) clamps down on the project. He sternly reminds Brooks that reality, like any other Hollywood commodity, needs...
...Yorker Susan Elliott, 33, who runs a happy ship with Daughter Tania, 11: "It makes living on a New Hampshire farm seem easy." (She tried that too.) A less tangible disadvantage is that boat people lose their old landlubber friends. Also, banks and stores sometimes look on a local Sinbad as a dubious credit risk. After all, he/she may cast off for Samoa or Sardinia on the whim of a wind...