Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President pointedly turned to steps the Congress might take to "improve the Federal budgetary situation." He zeroed in on that granddaddy of all pork barrels, the rivers and harbors bill, by urging Congress to "reject new projects not approved by the Board of Engineers," to provide for "more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued for user charges (levied against...
...only have Scranton's Big Four avoided union punishment, the McClellan committee noted, but they were honored, after their convictions, at a $15-a-plate testimonial dinner laid on by local A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders. Among the guests: an international vice president of the Laborers Union, the A.F.L.'s regional representative in Indiana, the director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education, and Joseph Keenan, a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. itself...
...Refuge must be refused to persons fleeing from the pursuit of the legitimate agents of the local government. In case such persons have been admitted to the diplomatic or consular premises, they must be either surrendered or dismissed from the mission or consular office...
...squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change the way of a man with a maid overnight. Even among Communists, particularly in the back-country cadres, the notion of equality between men and women was hard to digest. Some local party leaders, in an effort to preserve male superiority, took over the functions of parents and arranged marriages accordingly...
...simplicity of severing marriage ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers in the backwoods were instructed to "explain to young women that it is incorrect to seek mates only among urban youth." In the China Youth magazine, a schoolteacher wrote an article entitled "Do Not Make Love to Middle School...