Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dukakis said that in response to the concerns and requests of local communities, his administration produced a "state growth policy" focusing on growth opportunities in cities rather than in suburbs...
...bureau sent phony letters to mob leaders, signed by Communist Party members, protesting the working conditions of local labor union "sweatshops." The selected unions had intimate mob ties, and the FBI's goal was to disrupt both groups by expending "their energies, time, and money attacking the other...
...fact, Reed is an indifferent performer by American standards and a habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy...
...anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-socialists, minimal statists. We're not a standard political party," Nason said. The party sponsors libertarian candidates in elections throughout the country, and serves as a mechanism for libertarians to meet other people interested in working on specific political issues, like tax reform and local civil liberties issues...
...secondly, I would like to clear up a quote that appeared not entirely in context. It should not be implied that WHRB "discovered" Private Lightning, The Tweeds, or any number of other promising local bands. The point is that, because of our lack of commitment to ARB statistics or dependence on profit-oriented programming, we at WHRB not only have the desire but also the means to provide these bands with an opportunity to be heard on the airwaves of Boston/Cambridge...