Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help a women's softball team find money to pay for $350 worth of warmup jackets after the sponsor backed out, Sockol ended up mediating a personality conflict between the coach and the sponsor, who agreed to return. Sockol also helped heal a festering labor dispute at a local mill when he got union leaders to talk to management officials about who would pay the life-insurance benefit of a worker who died during the strike (they split it fifty-fifty, then settled their other differences as well). Herb Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called...
...Miami, Carlos Arboleya, president of the area's Barnett Banks (assets: $315 million), surveys the local Cuban-American community and confidently declares: "History will write Miami's future in Spanish and English...
...argument against Nestle is that the company's marketing techniques for baby formula in the Third World discourage mothers from breast-feeding. Because the formula has to be mixed with local water, it increases chances for disease; and as many mothers can not afford the recommended quantities of formula, it gets diluted and the babies become malnourished...
Next Tuesday Harvard will challenge the local talent in the Greater Boston Championships at Franklin Field...
...Cambridge Forum, which is sponsored by local religious groups, is offering a series of lectures this fall focusing on specific undergraduate courses at Harvard...