Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is the result of a 1976 court ruling authorizing private local stations to compete with the two staid nationwide networks operated by Radiotelevisione Italiana (R.A.I.), the state broadcasting monopoly. Taking advantage of a lack of regulation, new stations have mushroomed. At present, 385 private stations are battling with R.A.I. and one another for the attention of the owners of Italy's 15 million TV sets. There are 31 stations in the Rome area, twelve in Milan and eight in Turin; even smaller cities have their own stations...
...nolo contendere to the charge, he instructed the corporation to donate that amount to charities in New Haven, Conn., where Olin's Winchester Group is situated. "Reparations to the people of the community," he called it, stating, "The court believes that additional steps must be applied on the local level for re-establishing the local community's confidence and respect for one of its leading resident corporations...
...America: "It's unlikely that they have occurred purely by accident." Concerned Rutherford residents had their own ideas about the cause. Mrs. Vivian Cleffi, whose nine-year-old son James died of leukemia in 1976, held "Big Business" responsible. Some people raised questions about the quality of the local water. Others indicted the air, mentioning the smells from nearby industrial plants that one woman described as the "Sunday night sepsis." Everyone agreed that serious investigation was essential. "There are some questions that have to be answered," said Mrs. Betsy Van Winkle, who also lost a son to leukemia...
...benefits. Alan Greenspan suggests reducing expenditures for public service employment of the jobless, a most dubious economy. Rudolph Penner, director of tax policy studies of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, more sensibly would pare the roughly $68 billion in federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments, many of which are now running budget surpluses...
Other HANA members said it is difficult to attract attention in the Square, because passers-by cannot distinguish between demonstrators and employees of local businesses handing out advertisement flyers...