Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local Needs. The remedy for these ills was plain to any capitalist, but difficult for any Communist: to develop more local and individual initiative. Khrushchev proposed to abolish the centralized industrial ministries and carve Russia up into a number of "economic regions" (not necessarily identical with the 15 Soviet republics). Each would have its own regional council to manage all state enterprises and do the region's economic planning...
Over the regional councils Khrushchev proposed a souped-up State Planning Commission empowered to "correct" the regional councils from such deviations as paying too much attention to "the satisfaction of local needs...
...Future. Underlying the new atmosphere is a better understanding of what private power can and cannot do. Encouraged by the "partnership" policy during the first Eisenhower term, long-dormant private companies have meshed with local public utilities since 1952 to open up new projects adding some 4,500,000 kw. to the Northwest power pool. But such projects are chiefly local, barely keep abreast of minimum needs...
...five-year stay. Fending off a swarm of taxi drivers, the Durrells met their own personal "Zorba the Greek" when a swarthy islander named Spiro shouted to the beleaguered family, "Hoy! Whys donts you have someones who can talks your own language?" Neither Spiro nor the local hotel guide could quite grasp certain Anglo-Saxon eccentricities ("But Madame, what for you want a bathroom? Have you not got the sea?"). The Durrells were soon ensconced in a strawberry-pink hillside villa (the first of three), and after they began breakfasting under tangerine trees, bathing from crescent-shaped beaches that looked...
...York Club also has an even record this season, having lost narrowly to Princeton and beaten Wall Street. Its greatest strength lies in the experience of its players, many of whom are Britons working in New York. With an average age of about 30, it wins the oldest-local-rugby-team title by a comfortable margin...