Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHICAGO--The cheerful Bostonian who flabbergasted local folks by handing out free money--$100 bills, $50s and $20s--shrugs off the uproar she created...
...Japanese out. Anxiety over foreign imports has recently been a theme of Democrats like Richard Gephardt. But before he came along, the same worries were being expounded by John Connally. There is no such thing as a presidential primary in South Carolina without a protectionist pitch to the local textile industry. When the Fourth Reich joins the Yellow Peril as an economic bogeyman, squabbling on the right between free traders and protectionists is bound to increase...
...telephoned that evening by one of my political friends, then the second secretary of the district Helmut Hackenberg, who was in charge of the action. He informed me that several local personalities, including three secretaries of the party, had joined Gewandhaus Orchestra director Kurt Masur in a public appeal against the use of violence. Although I was not empowered to do so by the office I held at the time, I told my political friends that their appeal was correct, and I encouraged them to act in such a way that everything would end without the use of force...
...mind. These days, however, the definitions are becoming a little trickier -- and a little tackier. Supermarkets, drive-ins, car washes, neon signs and other exuberant examples of Pop architecture, mostly from the 1950s, are being touted for preservation, and some have already been set aside as historic landmarks by local and state agencies. "Many of the things that were taken for granted in the 19th century -- factories, mills, neighborhoods -- people now want to save," says Chester H. Liebs, historian and author of Main Street to Miracle Mile. "The same thing is going to happen to this century...
Havel and company had been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...