Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Local Affairs Committee also amended the bill introduced last session to include only those people too poor to purchase the condominium unit...
...California INS investigators have been banned from some campuses, among them Stanford, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C., although these schools have made appointments for Iranian students at local INS offices. Clark Coan, director of foreign student services at the University of Kansas, says that his office has made contact with most of the 269 Iranians on campus. But if some fail to show up to register, Coan adds, "we won't go out and hunt them down. That's an INS problem...
Sister Anne Marie set to work. Telling all who would listen that "I am certain the good Lord and good friends will hear me," she began rounding up used instruments. She organized the most promising students from her Holy Trinity Missionary School into a group and persuaded a local customs inspector to serve as conductor...
...other banks give toasters and electric blankets to their customers. Carl Cochran got something better. Two months ago, a local branch of the Bank of America credited the San Francisco freelance writer with more than $4,000 in an account that, he jokes, usually has a balance of "about $6.15." Cochran claims he informed a teller of the mistake, but the bank insisted the amount was correct. Exasperated, Cochran withdrew the funds and notified bank officials that he was holding their money hostage...
...told a group of assembled Cambodians at Sakaew of an incident he had observed when adultery was considered a crime punishable by death. A married man and a pregnant woman wed to another man had been caught making love. The man was beaten to death. Then members of the local work team were forced to watch the woman's execution. Recalled the witness...