Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permit specified categories of law-enforcement officers, federal, state and local, to request court orders for wiretapping in cases of specified serious crimes. (State and local officers, of course, would still have to observe restrictions imposed by wiretapping laws in their own states...
...knowing, as he set out for work early one morning, that he was walking through a thick fog. A jeep driver, delivering newspapers, failed to see him until too late. The car killed both man and dog. The blind sheriff had one of the biggest funerals in local history; it was doubtful that Denton County would ever forget...
...This thing should not have happened." cried the Rev. Jack Hesketh, the local vicar, at Jimmy's funeral. "We are living in an age that has seen the swing of the pendulum of trade unionism. It was formulated originally to claim for man the right to live according to his principles, the right to bargain for his labor. Men fought, and some died for that. Trade unionism today is the very antithesis of that attitude. Now men have not got the right to think or act according to their principles. Perhaps Alcock has died to call our attention...
Back-Alley Boom. The profusion of low-priced local goods displayed in the multicolored stalls was the most hopeful answer yet to Hong Kong's evil spirit-Red China, which is only a few miles away. The United Nations' embargo on trade with China has piled up goods in Hong Kong traders' godowns for want of customers. Exports since 1951 have fallen from 4.4 billion Hong Kong dollars (5.85 to the U.S. dollar) to 2.7 billion, well under the colony's 3.9 billion in imports, chiefly food. Thus the biggest hope for Hong Kong...
Chinese businessmen, who have streamed into Hong Kong by the thousands, bringing only their skills, have developed exports in amazing fashion. Three years ago, less than 15% of Hong Kong's exports were locally made; today more than 25% are. Moreover, local industry is mushrooming so fast that government economists expect that it will rise to 50% within a few years, and that Hong Kong will compete with Japan as the industrial center of the Far East...