Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grass-roots campaign? You neglected to mention that Howard Jarvis is employed by the local apartment-owners' organization. How many of them will cut rents when their taxes go down...
STATES. To a far greater degree than before, Washington will work with state governments on programs to help distressed cities. One reason: while the Federal Government will have a $60 billion deficit, some states and local governments have been running surpluses that total $15 billion. Washington wants some of that money to go for urban renewal. As an incentive, the Federal Government will put up $400 million during the next two years in unrestricted grants for states that provide funds of their own to help rundown municipalities...
...decade ago, when the U.S. finally agreed to let some 500 Micronesians return to their native island of Bikini, Washington officials determined to undo the damage inflicted by 23 nuclear tests. All sorts of debris was scooped off the beaches and dumped out at sea. Swaths of local jungle were cleared so that some 50,000 new coconut trees could be planted. Forty cement houses were built along the shore of the lagoon, and an Atomic Energy Commission spokesman declared that there was "virtually no radiation left." After a generation of exile, the first 100 of the Bikini islanders contentedly...
...when he interviewed him in 1970 claimed to be 132 only four years later. Leafs doubts were subsequently confirmed by two more scientists. Studying baptismal and other records, University of Wisconsin Medical Physicist Richard Mazess and University of Massachusetts Anthropologist Sylvia Forman concluded that some of the local Methuselahs had lied about their ages and that previous researchers were all too eager to accept their claims. In fact, say Mazess and Forman, there is not a centenarian in the lot-the oldest villager...
...widest possible variety of shows on TV-dramatic programs, adventures, news specials, sitcoms and so on. (The quality of comedies about whites is occasionally better too: witness The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Blacks, on the other hand, inhabit a restricted range of TV formats; apart from their roles as local newspersons and a peppering of parts on integrated shows (a smart detective on Police Woman, for example), they are mostly seen in situation comedies...