Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME discovered Gordon Bok [Jan. 22]? What city-slicker spies were hiding among "we happy few" who trooped time and again to local fairs or high school gyms in snowstorms to hear this modest...
...subject that does not normally raise such passion? Rosalynn Carter, as honorary chairwoman of the President's Commission on Mental Health, was appearing before Senator Edward Kennedy's Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Washington tingled at the prospect. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt testified in 1945 about local affairs in the District of Columbia had a President's wife appeared before a congressional committee...
...band left no similarly traumatic impressions. They were repellant but trivial, farmers and workers in a juvenile boys club, parading around in silly costumes on an isolated farm knowing that people in the city wanted nothing to do with them. It's been a long time since the local Klan made headlines in Winston-Salem. The article I wrote, only a few paragraphs long, was buried deep in the Sunday paper...
Clifford said he was resigning because, "this unfair publicity has also adversely impacted upon the governor in his important battle to make significant reductions in the local property tax and bring prosperity to the Commonwealth...
...think it definitely does and, in fact, is. The President just reaffirmed our commitment to the security of Thailand during the visit of the Thai prime minister. The United States had taken an interest in the local regional organization--the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--and has made efforts to be supportive there while at the same time seeing it primarily as a local, regional endeavor. We continue to have a military presence and base in the Philippines. I think there is definitely a feeling that an American presence in Southeast Asia will continue and is important...