Word: local
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Topics included a nationwide drop in union membership, the closing of local factories, increasing water pollution, and concern about rainforest destruction and international human rights abuses...
...Dumping Europe and Japan want a wide-ranging round of trade negotiations to include limits on the use of anti-dumping legislation to prevent cheap imports from undermining local industry. The U.S. favors a more limited agenda, excluding issues such as dumping, which are a major concern of U.S. labor...
With an arsenal of tactics including letter writing, negotiations, lawsuits, and rallies and marches, EFZ has emerged as local tenants' primary defenders against evictions and steep rent increases...
Such actions have won the respect of local politicians...
...probably not. The way it looks now, however many real computer problems Y2K causes the social delirium isn't going to happen. Buying stock in the local gas mask company seemed like a good idea a year ago. Every once in a while, though, depending on the stupidity of strangers isn't such a safe bet after...