Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities only by Chicago and New York. Most Clevelanders thought they had escaped becoming a national joke last year when they voted out Mayor Ralph Perk. He once set his hair ablaze with a welding torch while showing his affinity for the workingman during a campaign appearance at a local steel mill...
...almost $18 million from the water department's capital-improvement fund to pay other departments' operating expenses. But now the water system has decayed dramatically: pipes are badly corroded and a filtration plant is in danger of closing down for lack of maintenance. Two weeks ago a local court ordered the water department into receivership while a regional authority prepared to take over its operation...
...continuing conflict has been the mayor's relations with the city council. Black Council President George Forbes is one of Kucinich's chief opponents. Now Forbes, along with the five other council members, four of whom are black, has been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from local carnival owners in exchange for city permits to operate. Forbes admits taking $4,000 from them but maintains that he gave the money to charity. Fearing that the indictment might inflame racial tensions in the city, white political leaders and businessmen quickly rallied behind Forbes and began raising money...
University Food Services employs many of the temporary workers--on clean-up details, rather than as food handlers--by an arrangement with TAD's Manpower, a local company that provides many institutions with unskilled laborers, many of whom lack regular jobs or homes...
...most recent labor dispute between the University and the people who staff its dining halls raises a number of disturbing questions about the underside of labor relations at Harvard. Granted, the exchange between the dining hall workers' union, Local 26, and the University negotiators has, to say the least, never been what anyone would term cordial. Nevertheless, the course of the recent negotiations reveals Harvard's consistently hard-line, legalistic and impersonal attitude towards organized employees...