Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kansas now requires that soft beverages be available whenever alcohol is served at on-campus social functions. Promotion of alternative beverages has even won a few converts at the Uni versity of Virginia, where demand for booze by undergraduates has long been legendary. The sales volume of the local liquor store in Charlottesville is third highest in the state. One Charlottesville wholesaler even offers a ''Dial-a-keg" service, complete with a fleet of truck drivers equipped with radio-telephone beepers, to keep up with scholarly thirst. But at a recent University of Virginia fraternity rush, guests actually...
...announced it would publish a quarterly On-Campus Review to help concerned administrators keep up to date on consumption. To cut down on drunken driving, the University of Massachusetts encourages students to use a free Saturday night bus service, dubbed "the drunk run," which shuttles back and forth between local gin mills and the UMASS campus in Amherst. Dartmouth is considering a similar shuttle...
...case, the money fund yield is not so large as it seems. The interest paid by most funds is subject to federal, state and local income taxes, just as are savings...
...their supporters for dough" theorizes one city politician), and are trying to rebuild the coalitions that elected them in the past. Danehy didn't pay his taxes on time two years ago, a revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli, who has run front page ads in local papers for weeks, is a rookie councilor fighting to keep the same support he had a year ago. Crane, labelling himself a councilor for the entire city, is the son of Cambridge political legend Edward Crane, a lineage that still garners much support...
...September and the shooting of Darryl Williams could have forced Boston voters to look at the alternative candidate a little more closely. But the recent violence, as the mayor asserts (and is having police commissioner Joseph Jordan prove), is more isolated than it was in 1974 and 1975. Local media polls indicate that White will still win the election...