Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughin' matter. Your reporter hasn't paid the price of a haircut lately. No one in his right mind could have had a grudge against sweet, mellow Mr. Anastasia. Umberto must have been mistaken for the head of the local barbers' union...
...lessons in scavenging poured into the table microphones of the Senate Caucus Room in Washington as, one by one, independent garbage-collecting contractors told how Outsider Squillante used contacts in a Teamster union local to grab control of the Greater New York Carting Association. Bringing the cartmen into line, even to the point where owner-drivers had to join the union, Squillante's hold became such that he could, at a whim, leave thousands of businessmen and householders with garbage piling up day by day on the sidewalks...
Best guess of Italy's political pundits was that crafty Pietro Nenni, impressed by recent Red gains in local elections, was taking a calculated risk that an alliance with the Communists would strengthen his party's prospects in Italy's forthcoming general election. Whatever his motives, the turnabout planted what Nenni himself once called "a heavy tombstone" on the last lingering hope that Nenni would join the Social Democrats to give Italy a strong anti-Communist left...
...Some of its 35,000 members serve in provincial and municipal assemblies; others are directors of loan associations, better business bureaus, even P.T.A.s. A Zensei-sponsored petition protesting the law's enforcement was signed by 40,000 citizens, including 63 mayors, 151 chamber-of-commerce presidents and 25 local Liberal Democratic leaders...
...Local fans will find Yale's mammoth Bowl much like more familiar Soldiers Field. Parking problems, heavy traffic, and huge crowds of spectators make the Bowl area a driver's nightmare...