Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's employees, however, were not as philosophical. One hundred and fifty will stay at work in Cambridge, but 450 others will be left without jobs, because of what Flynn termed a "deal" with New Hampshire officials to hire mostly local workers for the new plant...
...flypaper and placed the cards in business envelopes. At different intervals and from different places, the cards, 47 in all, were mailed to the business address of one of Phil's friends in Chicago. Phil never opened the envelopes; he merely picked them up and delivered them to a local dealer recommended by Rafael, charging him $1,000 an oz. For his work and $3,000 investment, Phil made $25,000. He repeated the scam for a few more months; then, $100,000 later, he pocketed his winnings and retired...
...scientific studies of marijuana are uncertain, the studies on cocaine are even more mysterious. When the drug's active ingredient was chemically isolated in the 1860s, doctors soon found that cocaine was valuable as a local anesthetic. They also found that it acted as a very pleasant stimulant. Young Sigmund Freud used it and advocated it: "The psychic effect consists of exhilaration and lasting euphoria...
Impact School Aid. It began in 1951 to provide aid for school districts encompassing military bases, which sent servicemen's children to local schools without paying local taxes. The program was expanded over the years so that schools in all but a handful of congressional districts are now eligible for the subsidy; any school district can collect if only a few federal civilian or military workers live there. Last fiscal year the program covered 2.4 million children and cost $799 million. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the richest districts in the nation. OMB recommends that funding...
...idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press, he flew back into Chicago to suffer along with his constituents as they received a familiar forecast: more snow, ice and freezing rain...