Word: local
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...conversation with them. I discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...
Along with 6000 Red Guard members, Xuelianglater helped to wrest the city of Ching Yang fromthe control of almost 100,000 peasants. TheGuard's three-day fast in that cold March promptedthe central government to force local authoritiesto appease the students and expel peasants fromthe city...
...what did the Reagan Administration do about this problem? In their budget for fiscal year 1988, the Reagan Administration took 5 percent out of HUD's budget, commited no funds for any new construction of public housing and only reluctantly spared a program which would enable local goverments to help landlords rehabilitate low-income rental units. At the same time, the Administration, for the seventh year in a row, tried to fully drop the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program, which aims at encouraging private development of low-income housing in distressed areas. Each year the Congress, Democratic House...
...There was a need for a much more comprehensive facility [for local adolescents] for a range of ailments from poor nutrition to serious diseases to serious depression to other forms of anxiety," said Burt H. Giroux, public relations director for the Cambridge School Department. Parents must give permission for their child to use the clinic...
What was startling about the grievances was that they were broadcast on nationwide television for successive nights, accompanied by Gorbachev's ridicule of local Communist Party officials. "What have you been doing about the issues?" Gorbachev asked the local brass during one meeting. "We have been fighting," replied one politician. Retorted Gorbachev: "What kind of battle is it when you have no casualties and you have lost the battle completely...