Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They knew they had a problem last May. Down in Barnwell, South Carolina, local residents and state officials decreed that enough was enough. And they closed down the only radioactive waste disposal site in the East equipped to handle the sludge that university labs were sending their way. Closed it down, that is, to everybody but South Carolina and its neighboring states. Then the word floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried...
Still, though confusion seems to prevail among local fund-raisers, development officials have plenty of time to iron out problems before the drive officially begins in the Rochester area. Those officials are confident about both the Campaign's overall chances for success--despite gloomy economic forecasts--and its potential to attract contributions from alumni in every area of the country...
...cautions that one or two unexpected big local contributions could belie his prediction. "There may be three guys out here with a big interest in the preservation of Memorial Church, for all I know," he says. "The Preservation of Memorial Church" is one of the smaller items on the list of needs the Development Office has distributed to potential contributors--a list that also includes the larger goals of endowing faculty seats and student financial aid, renovating buildings, and funding educational programs like the Core Curriculum...
...front," the Rochester fundraiser says. "It's when you get into the trenches--in places like Detroit, and Dallas, and Rochester--that you find out where you really are." Alumni fundraisers and development officials will climb into those trenches for five years starting this fall, and whether local areas like Rochester prove generous or not, it's bound to be a long battle...
...Local scientists fear the new power of the less developed countries could deprive them of frequencies needed for research...