Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local administrators also complain that HEW tends to start programs too quickly, without giving them sufficient thought or staffing. Then the department demands fast results. Says an official in the Social Security administration in Atlanta: "The people at HEW's management level want statistics showing that large numbers of claims have been processed so they can impress Congress with what a good job they are doing. They don't care anything about quality; all they want is quantity...
Matthew, 5, is enrolled in the local Head Start program, where he receives free breakfasts and lunches. Mark, 14, is a problem. Last year, after a family fight, he ran away from home and spent a week in a halfway house-paid for by HEW'S Office of Children, Youth and Families...
...took the case to the local workers' council and then to her union, but the Army remained adamant. So she decided to sue and the Army responded by firing...
...isolated country cottage in the Aube region of northeastern France was easy pickings for burglars, who regularly made off with furniture, children's toys, sheets and kitchenware. After a dozen such thefts, Owner Lionel Legras, 50, operator of a local garage, fastened some shotgun cartridges to the inside of a transistor radio and locked it in a cupboard; he wired it to a timer that would detonate the shells 90 seconds after the radio was moved or switched on. Outside, he posted a warning: ENTRY PROHIBITED...
Rousseau then took a step that raised the case from a local incident to a French cause celebre: he filed suit against Legras, seeking $22,000 in damages. Even more galling, as many Frenchmen saw it, he nearly got his way. After a month-long dual trial, a court let Burglar Rousseau off with a two-month suspended sentence. As for Owner Legras, however, while no damages were assessed against him, he was declared guilty of using excessive force to defend his home. His sentence: eight months, suspended...