Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shake-up came after the party Central Committee yesterday approved a program directing restive Soviet republics to stifle calls to leave the union but acceding to demands for more local control of the economy...
...media market rife with three tabloid newspapers and half-a-dozen trashy local television news shows gobbled up the appalling incident and gave New York what they thought it wanted to see--the final showdown in a racial turf war that nobody could win, while ignoring the very real underlying problems which the incident represented...
After a winter in which they saw their local earnings devastated by rampant inflation (nearly 200 percent for the month of July) and were forced to endure the austerity measures contained in an emergency economic "shock" plan, the portenos of Buenos Aires are now breathing a sigh of relief...
...leading economic adviser. Ignoring the opposition of the telephone unions, Menem gave Alsogaray's daughter the task of privatizing the state-run telephone company that has for years been ridiculed by Argentines, who have a host of horror stories to tell about how tough it is to make routine local calls...
Graham said she did not want her name to appear on the order because she was concerned that the racial questions underlying the Commonwealth Day matter had been buried in local politics...