Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance style is quieter. While stringent, his security arrangements are lower-keyed than Kissinger's. The former Secretary used to fly his armored limousine around the world; Vance rides in the local ambassador's car. Dealing with the press, Vance is more reserved than Kissinger was, rarely holding discussions from a plane-seat armrest. He prefers formal briefings, does not treat reporters as cronies and does not like to gossip. Still, there are signs that his style is becoming more relaxed as he gets to know the dozen or so correspondents who are steadily assigned...
...family man, who earns $7,410 a year and gives up fully 20% of that in taxes (compared with 14% for the median U.S. taxpayer), can look forward to keeping an additional $3.50 of his weekly pay; that is about enough for one extra beer a day at the local...
...publications when you get home to see how they covered the demonstration. Many of them didn't. The L.A. Times gave it about three inches, which was three inches more than the New York Times gave it. And The Washington Post ran a small piece on it in their Local News/Obituaries/Classified section; that same day, the Post's leading story was about black suburbanites learning the joys of cultural assimilation. Go on: scratch your head; it hasn't quite sunk...
Plans for a Harvard chapter of NORML could include establishing a local laboratory to test marijuana for Paraquat, the contaminating herbicide currently being used by the Mexican government to destroy marijuana crops, Slayton said...
...grow more rapidly than Los Angeles over the next several years. But the Times' 90-member metropolitan hard-news staff is already spread thin over the 464 square miles of the city of Los Angeles, and the paper was scooped by just about everybody on the biggest local story in years, the "Hollywoodgate" scandals. Otis Chandler, 50, Times publisher and vice chairman of the parent Times Mirror Co., asserts blandly: "We already sell more than 30,000 copies [in San Diego], so we're convinced there's a market for a daily paper of our high quality...