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Word: local (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While everyone else was getting blitzed last Friday night. Harvard's handball all-American, Danny Acosta, was down at the local "Y" blitzing his opponent in the finals of the Cambridge Open Championship...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Acosta Coasts | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...protest included music, several speeches and a skit. "Underground Railroad," a local group, sang political songs as the crowd started to gather...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Burger | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...deciding factor. For if the MBTA does end up in federal court, there will be delays. Half a billion dollars in promised federal aid may be lost because, as Kiley aptly stated, "Uncle Sam does not hesitate to take funds not being used at the local level and put them on the nearest squeaky wheel that comes along...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...price of one-family homes in the university area currently averages about $100.000, a local real estate agent said yesterday...

Author: By Lino D. Tontodonato, | Title: Harvard Will Provide Tenured Faculty $2 Million in Low-Interest Loans To Purchase Homes In Cambridge | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

Critics also note that malls are voracious consumers of electricity and-because they can usually be reached only by automobile-of gasoline. They gobble up valuable farm land, pollute the environment, overtax local services, create great traffic snarls, and all too often are vast asphalt eyesores. Worse still, by encouraging the exodus of both shopkeepers and shoppers to the suburbs, they only hasten the decay of downtown areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Pall Over the Suburban Mall | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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