Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolls have swelled today to more than a million. As well as the government can determine (and it is not sure), it has 1,150,000 employees, whose paychecks account for half the national budget. This total includes schoolteachers, but not another 600,000 persons employed by provincial and local governments...
...black and yellow races. Their evidence suggested that 1) schizophrenia is most frequent where the tensions of Western technical civilization have caught up with primitive peoples; 2) when primitive people do suffer from schizophrenia, it-is essentially the same disease as in the West, though often colored by local superstitions, giving point to Carl Jung's warning to the congress that even the most modern, drug-minded therapist "should have sound knowledge of myths and primitive psychology...
...well within the same corporation [General Motors], why not let the Congregationalists and Episcopalians compete within one big church?" The two practical plans for unity which will be offered at Oberlin embody just this principle. One plan would join all churches that function "episcopally, congregationally and presbyterially," leaving local congregations free to administer the sacraments of Baptism and Communion in their own manner. A second plan is for a "federal union" in which each denomination would remain an entity, e.g., "the Methodist branch of the United Church of Christ...
...much for one man, that ailing Father Janssens' personal decisions were meticulous but sometimes slow. Toughest problem: every day Janssens must appoint from two to five new rectors or heads of globally scattered missions. Under the present system, the order's Provincials (roughly equivalent to local field commanders) submit names to Janssens' eight Assistants* (staff officers), but Janssens himself reviews all cases, makes all final decisions...
...before the Congregation: whether to vest some of Janssens' appointive powers in the Assistants or Provincials. Insiders believe that the delegates will plump for more power for the Assistants, fearing too much decentralization otherwise. But one powerful bloc-from the U.S. and Britain-favors increasing the Provincials' local powers. Since agenda and voting are secret, the decision may not be known till after the two-month meeting is over...