Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael S. Dukakis, in an effort to appease local florists hard-hit by the February blizzard, issued a proclamation declaring that Valentine's Day would last an entire week this year. Dukakis also ordered revellers to stage the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade on April 2, but left the rest of the calendar intact...
...Bolster's main interests was the Radcliffe News, a weekly news bulletin--usually a four-pager--featuring reviews of local plays or concerts. "Suddenly, someone thought we should have a daily. And for a while we had the only one of its kind in the country. However, it only lasted about a year. We couldn't get enough advertising to keep a daily going and it really wasn't a literary thing at all," she remembers...
Applicants to medical schools from southern schools and local city colleges are often overlooked by most medical schools, Poussaint said. Race, class and geographic location of applicants are all important factors in the admissions process, but admissions committees often tend to overlook minorities and disadvantaged students in favor of students from traditional institutions, he added...
...United Church of Christ (1,801,000 members). Under local option, the heirs of the Puritans chose to ordain the nation's first openly homosexual clergyman, William Johnson, in 1972. The church has set no national policy on ordination, but an agency is conducting a long-range study. United Church People for Biblical Witness, organized in April, is at work against a new denominational study guide that takes a tolerant view of homosexual behavior. f United Methodist Church (9,861,000 members). A church agency proposed that the 1976 General Conference repeal a four-year-old policy statement that...
...initial beneficiaries are the bigtime airlines, travel agencies, hotel and motel chains and their restaurants. But as the tourists travel within the U.S., they deal more with small businesses and entrepreneurs: Mom and Pop diners, souvenir shops, camping guides, local gas stations. Foreign spending can be a bonanza. Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, a rococo relic of past prestige, came back from the brink of bankruptcy by becoming a mecca for overseas tourists who still associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built...