Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate wave of Clamshell demonstrators vaulted a fence onto power company property in order to protest the blocking of a local road by the power company's fence. The police also immediately arrested the demonstrators...
...show trials of the Helsinki monitoring group. But blandly cheering on courageous dissidents like Ginzburg and Scharansky as they take part in some goodies vs. baddies soap opera is an insult. We can only effectively succor the cause of human rights in Eastern Europe by understanding in detail the local conditions which may (or may not) give dissident groups their opportunity...
...achieving Dubcek's "Communism with a human face." If Carter and Brezinski really wish to aid the cause of human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed up by hard-headed knowledge of local situations--how far economic pressures can be applied to wean regimes from Moscow, when and where nationalist sentiment can aid the dissidents, when to speak out, when to work behind the scenes...
...fast-food operation, every hamburger is alike. But in law, every case is not. When you walk in and order a hamburger, they don't tell you, 'Try yogurt, it's healthier.' They just serve you the hamburger that everybody else gets." Several local attorneys simply fear The Law Store's competition. "I sure hope they don't make it," says a lone practitioner in Los Angeles...
...attorney without a service like ours." In the first four months of operation, 805 clients had generated $20,000 in fees for The Law Store, whose monthly overhead is $2,000, not counting attorneys' salaries that are currently being paid by Group Legal Services. To attract more customers, local advertising in newspapers, on radio and TV is planned for the end of the year...