Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Morococha is not high enough for his purpose Dr. Velasquez put local volunteers into an altitude chamber, exhausted the air until the pressure equaled that at 30,000 ft., then had them take off their oxygen masks. Whereas virtually all unacclimated lowlanders lose consciousness in less than three minutes under these conditions, half the Morocochans were able to take it indefinitely and thus made it possible for Dr. Velasquez to figure out average endurance. The break point came at 32,000 ft. in this experiment; only one volunteer wore down the researchers by failing to black out. The rest...
...that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must take many more grievance cases, often trivial ones, to arbitration lest the union members withdraw from the local on grounds that they are not being ably represented...
...Jessie C. Lee, a widowed tourist-home operator in Albany, N.Y., the friendly letter from the local Arthur Murray School of Dancing was an invitation to waltz into a new and more exciting life. She signed up for dancing lessons, paid higher and higher fees to win the privilege of attending parties and other extra functions at the school. After six weeks, she was persuaded to sign up for an $11,800 lifetime membership. One of the school instructors thoughtfully accompanied her home and to the bank to round up the payment. But with half her life's savings...
...passes her time collecting pet jellyfish "cast up on the beach by the insensate cruelty of the Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy deserts the revolutionary game for a job in a travel agency...
...tuitions were doubled, state and local governments could "increase their tuition receipts by $2 to $3 million," and use most of this money for scholarships, "thus helping the genuinely poor, able and well-motivated boy," Harris said...