Word: localization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior Department ceded a 1.1-acre plot adjacent to the grave site to Maui County for recreational use. Local residents as well as the Lindbergh family winced at the idea of picnic tables and chain-link fencing, and the park was never built. Now the Federal Government may take back the land and put it up for auction. A driveway could slice through the cemetery within 20 ft. of Lucky Lindy's grave. Whether the site remains in public or private hands, the world is already pressing in on the Lone Eagle: more than 50 visitors a day find their...
...Arcatans began to worry about environmental overkill. The idea of sewer pipes running amuck through bucolic farm and forest lands frightened them. And the system's budget, a mix of federal grants and local assessments, ballooned to $56 million. Frank Klopp, Arcata's gravel-voiced public-works director, concluded that maintenance costs might force him to double the city's sewage rates. Klopp, known as "Klippity" in a city hall addicted to folksy nicknames, took himself to the mayor's office. "We really ought to get out," he growled. Gradually, others agreed. The bay's tugboat captains were worried that...
...Yale undergraduate, George Bush headed the local drive for the United Negro College Fund, a consortium that then represented 32 private black schools. Last week, as Bush delivered the keynote speech at the fund's 45th- anniversary dinner in Manhattan, and it was clear his ardor had not waned. "Then as now," said the President, "the U.N.C.F.") insists that excellence become a way of life...
...called Baker plan, the 1985 policy designed to ease the debt burden of Third World nations. The 15 largest borrowers, most of them in Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed to pay off foreign debt, the Bush Administration decided that the time had come...
...Third World immigrants, the Irish come with advantages: white skin, good education, a knowledge of the language and a talent for politics that would make Boston's legendary Mayor James Michael Curley beam with pride. On the East Coast, they have revitalized neighborhoods deserted by their American cousins. Local shops sell everything from soda bread to Irish candies and bacon. The bleachers are filled for Irish football at Gaelic Park in the Bronx and Dilboy Field near Boston. In New York's Irish neighborhoods, pubs are packed on weekends. "At home in County Offaly, the bars are empty," says Mary...