Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regain his selfesteem, the loser typically reduces his anguish by explaining away his defeat. Show business's fallen stars often justify their decline in terms of a mysterious force known as The Breaks (another word for fate). Other losers absorb defeat by joining a less competitive game, such as local community activism, which gives them a new chance to emerge as winners...
...symphony orchestra, a museum of fine arts, a municipal opera company or a repertory theater group, you have a problem: fund raising. An increasingly popular three-step solution, is to: 1) gang up with all the other local cultural organizations under one catchy acronym, 2) persuade people and companies to donate tax-deductible goods and services - the more wildly improbable the better, and 3) auction them off at a fancy benefit party, making sure that there is plenty to drink to keep the bidding spirited...
...inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...
...Better Chance. For all its promise, new technology will yield no miracles. Some experts calculate that even a 50% cut in construction costs would save consumers only about 15% in rents because of high operating costs, spiraling land prices, local realty taxes and interest charges. Still, that is a goal worth reaching. The biggest problem is getting well-known new methods used. Despite their cooperative attitude in Chicago, labor unions are widely expected to balk when today's modular programs grow larger. And some black militants already complain that instant houses are mere "crackerboxes...
...Proposition--Local satirical revue. At 241 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge...