Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of Feb. 26, selected local workers showed up at a "political meeting" at the invitation of the Viet Cong. Their bodies turned up in a grave near a school at Duong Xuan...
...everything that a total environment-greater Los Angeles, for example-is taking in and giving out via air, land, water. Only then can cities make cost-benefit choices and balance the system. Equally vital are economic incentives, such as taxing specific pollutants so that factories stop using them. Since local governments may be loath to levy effluence charges, fearing loss of industry, the obvious need is regional cooperation, such as interstate river-basin authorities to enforce scientific water use. Germany's Ruhr River is ably governed this way. A shining U.S. example is the eight-state Ohio River Valley...
Similar "air shed" action is starting between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...Amateurs last year; Colorado's Hale Irwin Jr. was the N.C.A.A. champion; Britain's Clive Clark was a former member of his nation's Walker Cup team. But laurels alone were not the price of admission. Each student had to be personally recommended by his own local or national P.G.A.; he had to cough up $250 for tuition and $125 for a year's P.G.A. dues, and he had to show a bank balance (or a sponsor's pledge) of $7,500-enough to cover his expenses for six months on the pro tour...