Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their witches. I come from a community in New Jersey where a radio production of Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" 60 years ago convinced one million people in the New York-New Jersey region that aliens had landed in nearby Grover's Mill Pond. Some of the local farmers got so carried away by the tale that they shot up the town's water tower, believing it to be an invading ship...
...wear out our clothes. We wear them until the fashion's gone. Then we give them to Goodwill who sends them to Africa or Latin America or wherever, where they undermine local production." Crammed between a table overflowing with professionally worn-in long-sleeved T-shirts, and a rack of cargo pants, Schor declares: "We are drowning in clothes in America...
...protesters were clad in red t-shirts dubbing them the "254 strike force," a reference to local 254 of the Service Employees International Union. Many of the janitors belong to that local, in addition to membership in their Harvard union...
...shop steward for the carpenters local 40 said that Cambridge-area unions, including the electricians, plumbers and pipefitters, would support the janitors...
...strategy was to put the question on the ballot not because it would win," said Glenn S. Koocher '71, a local political analyst, on Sunday...