Word: local
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Some conventions are more sought after than others. Wealthy groups like the bankers, the medical associations and the auto dealers (who have a reputation as particularly free spenders) are hotly desired by local convention officials. They can be expected to spend triple the average conventioneer's $50 daily outlay. New York City went to extraordinary lengths to court and cater to the American Trucking Association this year (see box). Waikiki postponed its Aloha Week parade last October lest the road from the airport be blocked for the 15,000 delegates to the American Bankers Association (who spent $8 million...
...contest for big-buck conventions, every major city is adding exhibition space, hotel rooms and other facilities. Though these are the meat and taters of convention planning, other factors have to be considered. Among them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...
...Davis-Bacon Act. This law is more likely to be changed than the minimum wage. Davis-Bacon forces contractors working on federally aided construction projects to pay workers at the "prevailing" local wage. But, in administering the act, Labor Department officials often seek guidance only from local union chiefs, who quote the highest wage in the region. The White House is considering advising the Labor Department to become more objective and include some nonunion wages in its calculations...
...dysentery, California officials have been pressuring the Mexicans through the U.S. State Department to begin treating the raw sewage. But so far little effective action has been taken, and the frustrated Californians have posted warning signs at the rivers: WATER POLLUTED and AGUA CONTAMINADA. That is hardly news to local residents. Says Cottrell: "Our people here stay away." But he is worried about the illegal aliens who regularly cross the rivers as well as the increasing number of visitors from San Diego, Los Angeles and other areas who come to ride dune buggies in the desert and sometimes -unwittingly-risk...
...flow in to pay the salaries. The majors this year drew 40,636,886 customers, a 36% jump since 1976 and a 76% increase during the past decade. The 26 major league teams also cut up $94 million in network television revenues, plus banking whatever they could earn from local stations...