Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graffiti, which included swastikas and insulting remarks about the police, appeared to be the work of "local youths bent on vandalism and using graffiti and vandalism for shock-effect," said Lt. Donald C. Whalen of the Wellesley Police...
...Weiss said she was particularly distrubed by reports that the perpetrators were local adolescents...
...very worried about the future under Proposition 2-1/2," said Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf said, of a state regulation limiting the rate at which local governments increase residential taxes to 2-1/2 percent per year...
...slowdown of the local economy means that the city can no longer depend upon continued increased in state aid and increased tax levy limits due to new construction, two factors that contributed greatly to the financial strength of the 1980's," City Manager Robert W. Healy wrote in a report delivered to council last week...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...