Word: localities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents of Cambridge's poorest and most racially diverse neighborhood have been struggling for several years to get concrete plans for the facility. Although Area Four is the city's most densely populated neighborhood for children, it does not have a teen center, but operates drop-in programs at local elementary schools...
...Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that a 50% reduction in U.S. troops in Europe would yield savings of only $6 billion to $7 billion a year. Real savings would not occur unless troops based in the U.S. are demobilized, a politically unappetizing prospect because of its impact on local economies...
...Americans consider themselves environmentalists. The level of public concern is so high, says Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island, that pro-environmental bills now get "a tidal wave" of support in Congress. In elections to the European Parliament, Green parties scored impressive gains. In Hungary protests from local environmentalists led the government to cancel a $ controversial multibillion-dollar hydroelectric-dam project. And in the Soviet Union the budding Green movement showed its muscle by shutting down a new chemical-weapons dismantling facility in the Siberian town of Chapayevsk. "In the future," said Soviet People's Deputy Alexei Yablokov...
...same time, Lithuania's Communist Party is on the brink of cutting its ties to the national organization. Fearing defeat in elections scheduled for February, the Lithuanian leadership is desperate to redeem the local party in the voters' eyes, despite warnings from Moscow that perestroika will disintegrate under the pressure of their extreme separatism. If the Lithuanians succeed in severing their links, they will set a provocative precedent that is sure to be repeated in other republics...
...overall vote for both legislative and local races, the D.P.P. captured 30% of the ballots and independent candidates took 11%. That left the KMT, despite its control of the broadcast media and its fat campaign coffers, with a 59% share, an all-time low. The D.P.P.'s strong showing underscored growing resentment toward the KMT's 40-year political monopoly on Taiwan...