Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question at this point is one of precedent: does the University do well to import outside operators at the risk of putting local ones out of business...
...pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...
Bones-and the Atomic Age. To keep alive a sense of Buddhist unity, despite these local religious differences, 200 representatives of Asia's 150 million Buddhists (plus a few Buddhists from Europe and the U.S.) met last week in Tokyo's Nishi Honganji Temple for the second conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. Sitting under a forest of multicolored* Buddhist banners, they opened with a special anthem...
...living. Though food prices had declined slightly (down eight-tenths of 1% in mid-September), other costs were rising. As federal rent controls expired last week, ceilings were dropped on 2,000,000 housing units (ceilings on the other 4,000,000 under federal controls were kept by local action). Landlords of many freed units wasted no time in jacking up rents. Though the boosts were limited in most places to about 10%, tenants feared that the landlords were just biding their time -waiting the day when there was no danger of controls being slapped back...
...owns 145; the rest he licenses out and sells the owners their supplies: toothpicks, napkins, hot dogs, ice cream, syrups, potato chips, tea balls, matches and about 700 other items. He also owns nine eastern steakhouses, known as Red Coach Grills, and a wholesale business which sells such local specialities as baked beans and brown bread to retailers in the six New England states...