Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown all over a survey crew and its truck. Unamused, the power companies have filed an excessive $500,000 suit for real and punitive damages against the farmer...
...only key to liberalizing trade. The Geneva negotiators will also try to dismantle many of the 800 to 850 NTMs (for "nontariff measures"), which are often deemed to be much more restrictive for international trade than tariffs themselves. NTMs range from straightforward quotas, to subtle and not-so-subtle local labeling requirements, to health, technical and environmental standards that can stop foreigners from freely entering another country's domestic market...
...Carter at his meeting with Sadat in Aswan last month: recognition of "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." The Israelis have accepted the phrase that the Palestinians have the right to "participate in the determination of their own future." Begin has proposed "self-rule," meaning a form of local autonomy that still allows for Israeli control of the West Bank. Whatever the eventual wording, it is clearly in the interests of both sides that the language be 1) rigid enough to preclude the Palestine Liberation Organization from taking control of the new entity; and 2) flexible enough to permit...
...village council chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very surprised that the gifts to the Indian government-loans for starting a chicken farm and for buying a machine to turn manure into methane gas-had been bestowed upon people who were able to make use of them, the local police agent and the man with the biggest cattle herd...
Last week, more than 19 million Beetles later, workers at the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg were busy enshrining the last Bug to be produced in West Germany. Some 300,000 Beetles a year will still be made in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, mostly for local use. And the familiar shape will not fade very soon elsewhere. The company claims that well over half of the Beetles built are still on the roads around the world, including nearly 4 million...