Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogmatic claims of either low or high tariff men. Nearly two years ago the Minnesota Business Executives Research Committee, a study group sponsored by the University of Minnesota's School of Business Administration, decided that it was time to move the tariff controversy into the realm of local reality. Last week, after interviewing officials of about 400 Minnesota companies, the committee released an item-by-item survey of the probable effects on Minnesota's industry of a U.S. tariff reduction...
...Michael Gonzi, a powerful voice in Roman Catholic Malta, who feared that integration might limit the church's influence over the island's education, religion and family life (Britain proposes that church-state relations be handled by Malta's own Parliament, which will continue to govern local affairs after integration...
...Owns or controls 85% of the land in the American tropics suitable for banana growing (except in Ecuador where government encouragement keeps banana-growing mostly in the hands of local producers...
...device, aimed at giving unwelcome visitors, e.g., children under 14, a chance to be seen by and chat with patients from a distance. The gimmick: a special TV hookup that employs existing TV sets in rooms, a camera and transmitter in the visitors' room, and an unused local commercial channel...
Cost of installation: $2,500 per hospital. ¶ In Bordeaux, France, a district court set a legal precedent for all France, ordered the government to pay damages to parents of eight local schoolchildren who developed abscesses in 1949 as a result of compulsory vaccination against TB. ¶ Manhattan Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher reported that multiple births (twins or better) occur far more frequently among Negroes than whites, run highest among women 35 to 39 years old. The incidence of quadruplets among whites is once in 570,196 births, among Negroes once in 237,897. For triplets, the current ratio...