Word: localism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stiles' dedication paid off. As a sophomore, Stiles consistently hit 15-ft. 9-in. and won the majority of the local meets he entered...
Appealing to local pride, the Scottish Nationalists argued that if devolution failed to pass, Scotland would "be good for nothing more than to tart up a few British ceremonies." But the antidevolution forces, led by the Conservative Party, mounted a late-blooming campaign that focused on an even more basic Scottish instinct: they charged that the cost of home rule would be quickly felt in the form of higher taxes. Some Scots also began to ponder the fact that devolution might lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, which none but the most extreme nationalists want...
...there can be enormous rewards for anybody who can lay his hands on a cargo of oil that is not locked up by a sales contract. Sometimes operating out of telephone booths, profiteers have been offering deals on as much as half of Indonesia's total production, which local politicians are said to have got their hands on. Oil cargoes have been sold four and five times while the tanker was still on the high seas, and each subsequent owner has pocketed vast profits. At a dinner of the Institute of Petroleum in London two weeks ago, while guests...
...however. For that information, which advertisers demand, the two rating services select hundreds of thousands of families, a combined total of more than 400,000 in February alone, and send them diaries. To cut costs, it was decided that instead of measuring daily, as Nielsen does for the networks, local ratings would be taken comprehensively during four months supposedly typical of their seasons: November, February, May, and three weeks in July. Based on how well they did in those periods, the stations would then decide how much to charge for each commercial minute...
That was the tale sent to newspapers in nearby Dallas and Fort Worth one April day in 1897 by a local correspondent named S.E. Hayden. It was generally ridiculed at the time, and most citizens of Aurora still scoff. "Hayden wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora," says Etta Pegues, 86. "The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying...