Word: localities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he is considering performances by reggae artist Ziggy Marley and local folk singer Tracy Chapman, said the committee cannot respond to concert offers quickly enough if the council has to approve every step in the negotiations...
...shocking story. Apparently, PBHA has just elected someone called Ehrenreich as president. Ehrenreich, with a haughty disregard for the PBHA tradition of providing cheerful, apolitical services to adorable underprivileged children, hopes to turn PBHA into a "central planning office" for the purpose of getting PBHA more involved in local electoral politics...
Even Ehrenreich has acknowledged as much. And discouraging volunteers directly undermines what should be PBHA's fundamental purpose--bringing students into public service to help local residents "gain control over their own lives." Every time a would-be volunteer balks at PBHA's political involvement, a few more disadvantaged citizens will go without a helping hand...
...weekly visits to the campus, the members of the Corporation will recognize their complicity in the injustice in South Africa. We are not confident that they will...The divestment activists have painted an accurate picture of the distance between the Corporation and the community of students, teachers, workers, and local residents who live here...
Every few hours, when one of the local stations reruns It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey reruns down the main street of Bedford Falls, wishing Merry Christmas to Old Man Potter and the Emporium and the Savings and Loan...