Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many women are heartened, however, by the gains at the local level. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to win a governorship in her own right, says these victories will percolate women into office in a few years. Adds Georgetown University Politics Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick: "Women just are not able to start at the top, where the prejudices haven't disappeared." But the number of women winning local elections is not inspiring: women now hold 9% of the seats in state legislatures, 2% of the state judgeships, 3% of the county commission offices, 8% of the mayoral and local...
...hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether our express or a lumbering local should have priority on the single track...
...down the track from Mbeya, the train ground to a stop for two more hours, blocked this time by a derailed locomotive that lay sideways across the track, attended by an honor guard of solemn onlookers. Passengers transferred to another train on the other side of the locomotive. Ragged local children, helping to transfer luggage, amassed undreamed-of fortunes in tips...
...employs two full-time hired hands, and during peak planting and harvest periods a dozen migrants from Texas or local high school students. The primary work force is the family: Sons Michael, 20, Blane, 18, Kurt, 13, and Daughters Stephanie, 19, and Lisa, 16. Even eleven-year-old David drives a tractor pulling a harvester that yanks three tons of sugar beets out of the ground every minute. All earn $3 an hour. During the wheat harvest each of them worked eight hours a day in staggered shifts so that some member of the family was in the fields...
...Carter whisked him from Pasadena to become Secretary of Defense. Large high-technology companies, such as Beckman Instruments and TRW, both founded by Caltech alumni, value their close ties to the campus. So too did Los Angeles Businessman Norman Church. Wrongly accused of drugging a horse that won a local race, he appealed to Caltech's chemistry department for help. The professors exonerated Church, and the businessman gratefully gave the school $ 1 million for construction of a new biology...