Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Leicester, she stepped out of her hotel precisely on schedule at 9 a.m. Dressed in a smart, gold-trimmed dark blue suit, her blond hair perfectly in place, she made her way to Grahame Gardner Ltd., a small local clothing firm. After greeting the proprietors, she climbed the stairs to a second-floor workshop and proceeded to win the seamstresses' hearts-if not their votes-by sitting at one of their machines and sewing away for a minute or two. Television cameras filmed the event for the evening news. By the time Thatcher left 45 minutes later...
...teams of the far-left Red Brigades have killed a member of the DIGOS police intelligence unit in Milan, "kneecapped" a TV news editor in Turin and similarly wounded a local Christian Democrat official in Genoa. Bombs have demolished a Milan police station and two Rome offices of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement. Then there has been the re-emergence of the Autonomisti, a semi-clandestine amalgam of Marxist student organizations...
...seems that back in the cult-happy '60s, a wealthy local matron fell under the swami's spell in India and invited him to Switzerland. Her generosity helped launch the Divine Light Center in a cluster of 15 houses, which the swami painted an offensive bright blue. Worshipful disciples pestered the neighborhood with nonstop proselytizing. From 4 in the morning on, loudspeakers bellowing holy chants echoed through the district. The stolid burghers finally lost patience and in 1975 won an official order to have the swami expelled from the country...
...rarely applied California law, a court may require the state to pay attorneys' fees "in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest." The right in this case, of course, is to sue a live-in mate for "palimony." Local lawyers say chances are slim that the state will foot Mitchelson's bill. Even so, he is not likely to be left stewing penniless in his office Jacuzzi. The Marvin case brought Mitchelson, who is believed to have earned some $750,000 last year, not only a book contract...
...complete interior wall-papering and painting including painting several rooms more than once because "Mrs. Goldstein didn't like the shade," Lou Corvo, vice-president of the Local 35 union and a Yale plumber said...