Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city people, and so connive in their own ruin. More and more country people, like city people, allow their economic and social standards to be set by television and salesmen and outside experts...
Because the plates carry the code of each travel agency, businesses are being billed for a slew of stolen tickets, many of them to expensive locations in Central and South America. One agency was debited $47,000 for tickets taken last June. The local chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents has asked airlines to install $1,500 computer scanners at boarding gates to identify the hot tickets. Three weeks ago, when thieves held up Van Nuys travel agent Alfredo Vaca for the second time, he refused to surrender any more blanks, convinced that the losses would...
...bill was also amended 13 times by Sen.Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.), the chair of theJudiciary Committee. Among Biden's amendments weremeasures expanding treatment programs for addicts,hiring more federal agents to target drugtrafficking organizations, increasing funds forstate and local drug enforcement officials andextending incentives encouraging companies toresearch drug treatment...
...This bill is not substantial," said Kleiman."The bill relies too much on the question ofwhether governors and mayors are willing to spendmoney required. I don't see any evidence thatspending of state and local funds is going tohappen...
Then, I was switching the channels one day this year and just happened to catch a soccer game on the local Spanish station. I started to listen to the announcer and was mesmerized...