Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still difficult for new groups to conduct the thorough public relations campaigns and secure the large performance halls necessary to establish a devoted audience following. For this reason dance troupes have, for the past several years, collaborated in dance festivals featuring a few name companies interspersed among local and experimental troupes. The most famous such festival, New York Dance Umbrella, has used groups like Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham as its "anchor" companies; for the most part, these festivals have so far been unsuccessful in Boston...
Whether or not the murders were committed by the same person, they are related in that they have plunged the local black community into an atmosphere of fear and distrust. These feelings are aimed especially at the police, who have responded to the violence against black women with much less enthusiasm than they have to similar crimes against life and property involving whites. The media has been no help either; until the most recent murders press coverage has often slighted or distorted the facts...
Highways rimming the coast, medieval citadels in old settlements and modern hotels broken up by the initial 50-second tremor slid into the sea after a series of violent aftershocks, local officials reported...
...earthquake began at 7:20 a.m. local time...
...employees as well as retirees, shareholders, royalty owners, leaseholders and distributors. It encourages them all to pressure their legislators. In its latest annual report, ARCO notes, "In its continuing effort to heighten employee and shareholder political awareness, the Company has widened its Civic Action Program, which now has 45 local area committees operating in 13 states..." All told, the program maintains contact with 63,000 people. These figures uphold the contention that ARCO is a significant national political force on the basis of its PAC alone...