Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular Vietnamese army will receive many of them into its ranks. Local Indo-Chinese war lords are competing for their services. As an army of soldiers fighting for their church, the militias are no more, but the bishop's soldiers have left their mark in Asia's bitter history...
...month ago, Cole called into Birmingham his drivers and the officers of their A.F.L. Teamsters Union local, explained that he either had to cut expenses or shut down. The drivers agreed to help by giving up their nonproductive pay (e.g., pay and expenses for hotel rooms, meals, taxis, etc., that drivers get when they break down on the road or are waiting for a load). Cole estimated this at 20% of his payroll. Shortly after, his drivers changed their minds, refused to give up their nonproductive pay, and struck. Later the union offered to permit its members to lend...
...bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...
...Americans, out for a shoot in the highlands, happen on a town named Brigadoon. One of them (Gene Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern...
There are those about us who are participating in this project: for example, the Boston & Albany Railroad, local trains on the Boston & Maine, and the sovereign towns of Bellows Falls, Bennington, Brattleboro, and Rutland (all in Vermont). Standing against A.S.T. are the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including local services; the Central Vermont Railroad, including trains to and through certain enclaves; all airlines; and the United States mails...