Word: localities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday it was reported that a local party leader in Guizhou was sentenced to death for selling bootleg liquor...
Although the dining hall workers' contract expired on June 19, their bargaining representative, Local 26 of the Hotel Workers Union, agreed with the University to extend the deadline until the end of June so that HUCTW could complete its contract first...
Bozzotto also said that as HUCTW writes out theformal language of its contract this month, Local26 will be able to claim some other benefits. Hepointed to free use of the athletic facilities andinclusion in the University's $50,000 fund for daycare scholarships as benefits enjoyed by HUCTWthat Local 26 might seek to acquire...
...sorting out takes time and patience. An interview with a local bureaucrat seems to support Naipaul's contention that "everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two." After much difficulty, he has arranged a chat with two Tamil radicals. The pair are escorted to the writer's hotel room by two plainclothesmen. The luxurious Taj Coromandel is overrun by an international gathering of leather-goods manufacturers, and for all anyone can tell, Naipaul and his group could have just concluded an agreement to turn sacred cows into discount luggage. His reaction to the interview...
...Passed last week by the ruling National Party, the outline calls for constitutional reforms to be introduced over the next five years that would provide limited voting rights to the country's disenfranchised black majority. The accord envisions a federal system composed of Swiss-style cantons, where suffrage in local elections would be universal...