Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev had appealed last week for a "renewal" of Communist Party ranks from top to bottom, and his suggestion that local governing bodies also be transformed could mean sweeping leadership changes...
MOSCOW--President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday the strikes in Soviet coalfields were the biggest test of his four-year economic reform plan, and he called for a shake-up of the local councils which are often blamed for stopping progress...
Laraway recalls that he, Hazelwood and several other cadets would each routinely down a case of beer on Saturdays at the Long Island home of cadet Saunders Jones, today a sea captain who remains Hazelwood's closest friend. By early evening the boys would turn up at local Huntington bars. By midnight, having rounded up as many as 50 other merrymakers, they would shift the party back to Jones' house, where the drinking would resume on Sundays...
...long ago, the answer to the question "What should we do tonight?" seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...
...with HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce to ease the way for the project. Siegel claims she does not recall talking with Jacobson in 1987. "You think I'm going to risk five, six or seven hundred thousand dollars talking to somebody on the Baltimore ((Evening)) Sun?" asks the developer today. Local housing officials, curious about Watt's involvement, were cheering Jacobson along. "I wanted her to find the facts," says Maryland community-development administration director Trudy McFall. "But they just weren't there." Laments Jacobson: "I feel bad that I couldn't prove the story...