Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ports of call like Circle, Mont. (pop. 964), or Alliance, Neb. (pop. 7,987), or Vernon, Texas (pop. 11,454), the Smalls' young crewmen dabble only halfheartedly in once cherished cutter traditions: drinking beer, chasing girls and avoiding brawls with jealous local boys who delight in baiting the wheaties. Despite the myths of wild living, the boys mostly work long hours (when it doesn't rain), eat quickly, sleep a lot and save their money, a practice made easier by the fact that the Smalls, like most employers, pay off at the end of the season...
First, though, Carter had to pay a visit to Plains. Returning to his home town in Georgia is no longer pure pleasure for the President. Local merchants, worried about a drop-off in the number of tourists who thronged the town a year ago, expect him to stroll the streets and attract crowds during his well-publicized trips home. So the President grinned his way along jammed sidewalks for the mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members...
...renewed public attention to "local tyrants" is one major indication of Teng's intentions. The Chinese press has accused some local leaders of acting like "patriarchs," "beating and cursing the masses" and even causing "unscrupulous arrests, deaths and disabilities." A document, issued last month by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, instructs local leaders to step up the criticisms of people who are trying to "keep the lid on" the anti-Gang movement. In Kwangtung, according to one broadcast, entrenched followers of the radicals infiltrated an investigation of their own affairs. The result was that evidence compiled...
...controversy had been set off by disclosures in the local press that the Israeli government was planning to establish five new settlements on the West Bank. This was in contradiction to Begin's promise to Cyrus Vance a week earlier: that Israel would refrain from starting any more such settlements until after the September summit...
...public response to this onslaught of civility in the civil service has been mild astonishment-and gratitude. One woman, flabbergasted as a solicitous postal employee repacked a badly parceled piece of mail, could only stammer, "Danke, danke." In Bavaria, a local department store took Behörde und Bürger to heart and started its own courtesy campaign. The wave of Teutonic tact even seems to be paying dividends for the civil servants. Says one graduate of the postal service deportment course: "Somehow, I feel much less insecure...