Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduation from a local junior college, Anderson taught Spanish, history and mathematics at the high school in Burleson for two years while saving money to go to law school. Assigned to coach the football team despite the fact that he had never played football, he bought a couple of books on the game, coached his boys to an undefeated, untied season...
Besides increasing the Waggoner empire's profits, General Manager Anderson succeeded over the years in transforming its local image from stone-hearted colossus to soft-hearted rich uncle. In Vernon, Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
...intended to give unions time to make their constitutions and practices more democratic. But it served quite a different purpose for Anthony Provenzano, heavy-handed agent of Top Teamster James Riddle Hoffa and indicted (bribe taking) boss of northern New Jersey's big (12,000 members) Teamster Local 560. In the local's October meeting Provenzano and his toughs squelched a band of insurgent members, railroaded through a scheme to hold elections in Jersey City a week earlier than scheduled-on Dec. 11 and 12, just before the new law's fair-election rules go into effect...
...dramatized the importance it attaches to the new Visual Arts Center in the most effective way possible by choosing Le Corbusier as its architect. One can expect with certainty that the new building will be an original and stimulating creation, a contrast to some of the more recent local construction...
...Epicerie complain that "thousands of small independents have been forced out of business. If the wave continues, another 10,000 will have to close down in the next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked it as an imperialist plot, until they discovered that workers were swamping the store at the rate of 23,000 customers...