Word: localities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local level, the bill has drawn vocalsupport from gay and lesbian advocacy groups. TheCoalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights plansto sponsor a rally tomorrow of up to 1000 peopleon the steps of the State House...
Some families left after the police removed foreign television crews and local photographers. But most stayed, opening their picnic lunches, swimming and wading in the water as the crowd grew...
...Unless they live in the city of Boston or Cambridge, both of which have local ordinances, there is no protection against discrimination," Cathcart adds. "If the bill passes and becomes law, then MCAD will have jurisdiction," he says...
Three hundred miles south of Beijing, the view from Zouping County is different. Not all Zouping's citizens are true believers, but they appear to revere the army and seemingly remain loyal to the government. Zouping has come far in the Deng era -- it even has a local beer, Hupo, that someday may rival the popularity of Tsingtao in the U.S. (The word on the street has Tsingtao's springwater supply running out in the early 1990s...
Quan has another claim to local fame: in the middle of his orange groves he has erected a 6-ft. shrine to Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader whose tacit support of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square contributed to his ouster in late June. Near the top of the tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument...