Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year elections traditionally lack focus. The decisions of the voters are normally made on state and local issues and consequently embody no national mandate. This year, however, the Republican Party has supplied a focus: attempting to equate Democrats with radicalism and socialism, it has condemned its opponents in Cassandrian accents, warning of the disaster that will befall a Congress and a nation dominated by such...
...Furcolo has spent more than any other executive in state history. Inflation is one cause of this record and debt retirement has proved very expensive. Massachusetts has the largest per capita state debt in the nation, despite the existence of a high state income tax, extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...
Recession and individual local matters are the main campaign issues, according to Freidel. "People don't care as much about Quemoy and Matsu as they do about their own problems...
...Executive Council of the A.H.C. had voted earlier this month to abolish the Regional Scholarship Progam and rely on grants provided by local Harvard clubs...
...Walden Pond is a national shrine, as renowned as Mt. Rushmore or Buffalo Bill's Grave, and it should be kept free from the stench of the local refuse, if for no other reason, simply to preserve its attractiveness for the tourists of America who must have some place to drive to during vacation-time. Besides, modern techniques require big yellow bulldozers to ply dump areas throughout the day, and the continual pilgrimage of trucks and trailers, with the bulldozers snorting through the pines like prehistoric beasts, would be a grotesque way to shatter the placid hours of this venerable...