Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same...
...discussing the effect of tight money on the loan policy of a local bank, I pointed out to your correspondent that banks, under such circumstances, necessarily become more selective in making loans. However, my quotation ["When money is scarce, it's the little man who surfers"-Sept. 10] was placed in juxtaposition with a very critical quotation of the system's policy. The strong implication arises that my intention was to criticize the monetary policy of the system, whereas I am strongly in favor of that 'policy. On the whole, your article was excellent...
...political campaign in history. Long before the conventions decided on the candidates, Republicans and Democrats retained three ad agencies and took options on some $4,500,000 worth of fall radio-TV time (three times the 1948 costs). There will be far less whistle-stopping and fewer talks with local bosses, now that TV is out of the bush league of politicking. Items...
...sleepy corn-and-cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
Social Record. Counting remedial "workers' and peasants' faculties," there are 46 institutions of higher education in East Germany, with an enrollment of 100,000. Admission to any one of them is controlled from East Berlin through local, politically oriented selection commissions. Under the government's present quota system, 65% of the nation's college students must be recruited from the "workers' and peasants' class," with priority for the remaining openings given to members of the "productive intelligentsia" (i.e., "deserving activists," "deserving teachers of the people," "deserving inventors," college professors), and to such heterogeneous categories...