Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock, foreign investment in the U.S., Ralph Lauren's fashion empire and Disney...
...response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn took the final step by informing...
...church in protest and complete their Mass inside a liberal Protestant sanctuary. Thereafter, Dignity plans to continue worshiping with priests who are willing to disregard Quinn's edict. Pointedly, a Christmas Eve Mass will be celebrated in a public school directly across the street from Quinn's office. Insists local Dignity spokesman Kevin Calegari: "We have never had church approval. We don't need...
...Issued an Executive Order allowing the licensing of nuclear-power plants in areas where local officials have refused to develop emergency-evacuation plans...
...referred to by their first names, is not to typify realistically an institution, but to represent two basic, conflicting human responses to being cast by chance in a tragic historical drama. Anderson and Ward are investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers, two Northern college students and a local black -- a fictional case obviously inspired by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, workers in the 1964 drive to register black voters in the Deep South...