Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think [local aid] will be cut," said Rep. Mary Jane Gibson (D-Belmont). "That would mean very severe effects on cities and towns with very thin budgets...
...today. The number of female lawyers and judges has climbed from 7,500 to 180,000 today, female doctors from 15,672 to 108,200, and female engineers from 7,404 to 174,000. The number of women in elected office has more than tripled since 1975 at the local level, though their presence has barely changed in the U.S. Congress...
...marching for the first time in their lives. Among them was Emily Friedan, 33, a Buffalo pediatrician and Betty Friedan's daughter. "For 25 years I have rarely appeared with my mom. This April I marched with her because of the abortion issue," says Friedan, who has organized a local chapter of Physicians for Choice. The abortion issue has helped galvanize college-age women -- and men -- out of their political inertia. Alexandra Stanton, 20, took a year's leave from Cornell to launch Students Organizing Students, an activist group devoted to protecting reproductive rights. SOS has already launched chapters...
Searching through the debris for blessings in disguise, hotel owners note that the disaster could have happened in high season rather than before it. In addition, the tragedy may help inspire local governments to repair the infrastructure properly, and then some. "Hugo has done for St. Thomas what nothing else could," says Hotel Association president Nick Pourzal. "Now they are planting, landscaping, spending the money to line the boulevards with bougainvillea. I've been trying to get this done for 15 years...
...general, we need an increased financial commitment to education. But it must be be accompanied by a reform of the distribution of funds. We must abandon the system of financing schools with local property taxes, a system that perpetuates inequities among localities and raises barriers to disadvantaged students...