Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard Time. Some matters are rigidly prescribed, such as a requirement that a man be given at least 30 days to appeal a 1A classification, but many others have purposely been left to the virtually unfettered discretion of local boards. Recent changes in the draft have removed most graduate students and many so-called "critical-skills" workers from their semi-automatic deferred status. But even before the change, local boards were not absolutely required to grant deferments, and now a deferment can still be issued if a board is persuaded that there is a "community need...
...surprise that Knowland reacted hotly when Negroes organized a boycott of a square block of food and liquor stores called Housewives Market. It was a curious boycott: Negroes had no particular grievance against the stores. But when local Black Panther Leader Bobby Hutton was shot and killed by police last April, black militants decided to retaliate by forcing Housewives Market to support their demands; the chief of these was a call for the indictment of the police involved in the shooting. Despite heavy Negro patronage, the stores understandably demurred, and pickets assembled to turn customers away, often by threatening them...
...organizational terms, the Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for airspace, the Civil Aeronautics Board for routes and flight frequencies the airlines themselves for flight scheduling, and local authorities for maintaining airports. Liaison is poor. Airport men accuse the airlines of being too secretive about equipment plans. It was only 18 months ago, says E. Thomas Burnard, executive vice president of the Airport Operators Council International, that the airlines told airports they would be buying jumbo jets. This gave the cities only a scant 36 months to carry out necessary improvements to handle such planes. "It's the same story...
Though bargaining for a wage increase on an industry-wide basis, the steelworkers have also raised thousands of local issues-ranging from demands for cleaner toilets to complaints about poor lighting in plant walkways-that could impede a settlement. But money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that...
Before long, Dunfey inns will have another feature. In August, when the entire 13-member clan jets to Dublin for a reunion on the ould sod, the family plans to recruit local barmaid talent to staff "Dunfey's Taverns," being set up in the family establishments...