Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally raucous House chamber fellsilent, Flaherty told fellow lawmakers that thestate must now pick up the slack for a negligentfederal government and local communitiesconstrained by Proposition 2 1/2, the 1980property tax cap referendum...
Collins says she is particularly proud of a pilot program that brought together teachers and both state and local officials to plan a merit pay system...
...Princeton late last month, students and faculty gathered to oppose a local bookstore's removal of the novel from its shelves. About 65 faculty members, students and towns-people attended the protest, which was organized by faculty members who said they were concerned about the implications of the book's removal for freedom of speech...
...disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev made his first visit to Chernobyl last week. The Soviet leader seemed intent on cleaning up the continuing environmental and political fallout from the accident. Soviet newspapers in recent weeks have reported the births of deformed farm animals and widespread radioactive contamination of land and food. Local workers surrounded Gorbachev to tell him of their worry about the health consequences...
...with 374 lbs. of MDMA, worth up to $27 million on the street. Two Americans and one Imhausen employee have been arrested. While Imhausen has admitted manufacturing the drug, company officials claim they were unaware the substance was illegal. Ironically, Imhausen could face stiffer penalties if convicted of breaking local narcotics laws than for helping a foreign country make deadly chemical weapons...