Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Boston Carmen's Union Local 589 voted unanimously last night to end the work stoppage that halted all subway, trolley and bus operations in the city of Boston yesterday, forcing more than 250,000 commuters to find alternative means of transportation...
Schlafly developed her organizational talents early. Raised in St. Louis, the daughter of a failed inventor, she put herself through Washington University ('44) by working 48 hours a week testing machine guns at a local arms plant. After earning an M.A. in political science from Radcliffe in 1945, she returned to St. Louis to edit a conservative newsletter...
...Geller, now 58, has put in 85 hours a week running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
That would have been particularly painful, because Lykes last September closed some facilities in and near Youngstown, Ohio, eliminating 5,000 jobs. Local church and civic leaders hope to reopen the mills by collecting funds from people in the area and getting Government-guaranteed loans, but their chances seem slim and will be unaffected by last week's decision...
...federal government organized so it did not wipe out the states and the municipalities and the communities. He didn't want to have people looking to Washington for everything. The problem was that the federal government was "taking so much money from everyone it left no resources for local government to run its educational apparatus. That was the problem...