Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berkeley, Calif., they voted local activists onto the school committee. In Madison, Wisc., they are actively sought out by every local pol who wants to win. But in Cambridge, student voters have never been powerful because they've never bothered to vote in city elections...
Although there is a certain homogeneity--from city to city, hotels are designed alike, restaurants often use the same china, waiters and waitresses wear the same austere black and white uniforms--the government maintains diverse economic establishments that cater to different Cuban clienteles. There is the local bar in the town of Trinidad in which the only barstool is a concrete stoop. And then there is the Tropicana nightclub, still perhaps the most lavish in the world, where dancers in glitter and feathers parade across an outdoor stage set amid a grove of palm trees...
Aboard the sailing ship Beaver, scene of the Boston Tea Party, local anti-nuclear leaders yesterday announced growing support for the planned occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant site in New Hampshire...
...goal of this action is not to provoke a fight, nor is it to get arrested," organizers said yesterday. "Rather, our vision is to collectively create, in conjunction with local residents, an anti-nuclear community of people building, gardening and living on the site...
...soon see a very different set-up for the moribund popular music field: thriving local musical cultures with their own regional audiences, their own small showcases, and their own independent record labels entirely supplanting the super-group, platinum record, Meadowlands Stadium pattern of the last decade. That would mean the multi-million-dollar structure of big record labels--usually the corporate subsidiaries of even larger entertainment conglomerates--could atrophy or entirely crumble...