Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
...money was used to counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and federal authorities for slipshod and unconstitutional handling of poverty and welfare programs...
...single one was perhaps decisive, but in sum they represented a massive indictment. Many French voters doubtless cast their ballots on the merits of the issues raised in the referendum, ignoring the eschatology of De Gaulle's destiny. The referendum's proposal for government decentralization spawned a host of local antagonisms from communities that stood to lose by it. Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine, was incensed that smaller Metz, a city of Germanic language and origin, would become the capital of its region, the new Lorraine. Though they had given De Gaulle 75% of their vote...
...probably the closest thing the Square has to a place where you could take your parents to dinner and tell them that they're getting local color. It has everything from baked beans and franks to a five-dollar filet mignon. ZumZum is designed to be more of a meeting-place or after-the-movie snackbar. But few people would want to meet in such a clean well-lighted place; with all the sausages hanging around like overgrown tonsils it reminds me of an operating room. Also, of course, the bright lighting makes it impossible to see anyone outside...
...these businessmen so concerned about city education? Local myths aside, there is still a working class, and these businessmen are dependent upon a supply of new and well trained workers (from revamped vocational high schools). And they are equally dependent upon a highly educated elite to sit on top of the structure (from Harvard and similar institutions...