Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrangements, these industrial consumers receive electricity from TVA at discount rates, while small consumers pay full rates. This means that the small consumers effectively subsidize the energy consumption the industrial giants, which in the case of Union Carbide, for example, goes toward operating uranium enrichment plants that seriously threaten local environments...
...that the activity will bring a boom-town economy to the area. But the extraction of the highly radioactive uranium promises the release of low radiation from the ground. TVA's uranium mines will be in operation only 20 to 30 years, while the radiation will stay in the local environment for much longer. In January of this year, 92 Navahos filed a suit...
...commissaris' brother-in-law is only one of several people who have lived on a peninsula called Cape Orca and who died or disappeared, leaving the land a cursed place. The motive for all this is not very deep. The story would not be ten able if the local sheriff were not a very new man in the territory and his helpers foreign. As the old man notes, the towns people are not mystified at all: "They know the country, the undercurrents."In The Maine Massacre, the plot is the undercurrents. The principal character is the snow. It isolates...
...Committee Against Racism (CAR) voice stronger feelings about the local police, claiming the existence of a "Court-Cop-Klan Alliance." Pointing to past shootings of blacks by P.G. policemen, CAR literature states, "Given the racist history of these P.G. cops, it's not Terrance who should be on trial; these cops should be on trial for racist murders. Indeed, the P.G. cops have such a long racist history of murder and terror against workers in P.G. that, besides the county government, the only organized support they have is from the Ku Klux Klan...
Gennari added that he and his roommates had circulated petitions Saturday at local bars opposing the proposed rise in the drinking age to 21 and calling for a test period with the drinking age set at 19. Gennari said most people he talked to think the drinking age should...