Word: localization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time residents, the problem seems to be less the buying binge than the perception that their neighborhoods are being offered on international markets far removed from local buyers. The unease crested last December, when condominium units developed in Vancouver by Li were snapped up in Hong Kong within 2 1/2 hours of the offering -- before they were even put up for sale in Canada. Says Susan Alexander, a member of a local group that is demanding stiffer government controls on foreign real estate buyers: "Our housing is being treated like a commodity on the stock exchange." Alexander is being evicted...
...burned a prosperous collective that raised pigs because it was too successful. In Poland the economic program of Solidarity runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security. In China efforts to decentralize decision making have resulted in economic anarchy as local authorities assumed the power to tax or even create money that citizens had earlier unquestioningly granted to the Emperor or Mao. And in all three countries housewives, unable to make the connection between higher prices and availability, complain about paying several times the old official prices for food that...
Citizens have been encouraged to report any suspicious behavior by neighbors, particularly if it involved contact with foreigners. Former Chinese Red Guards say most of the targets of the Cultural Revolution were actually victims of petty local vendettas. In the Soviet Union informing on one's fellow man was taken so far that Pavlik Morozov became a national hero for ratting on his father. And all across the socialist world workers were repeatedly assured that they need not fear -- that no matter how little they worked, no one would live better than they...
...regimes have cynically cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children...
...rash of rumors from circulating in Pensacola, a town of 60,000 where Gulf Power is one of the biggest employers. Many thought the crash was caused by either suicide or sabotage and is linked to the investigation. The speculation was fueled by a telephone call made to the local sheriff's office three hours after the plane went down. "You can stop investigating Gulf Power now," said an anonymous caller. "We took care of that for them this afternoon...