Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of local control is an old, old idea--and a traditionally American one--despite militant rhetoric which calls the same thing a revolution. Some recall that in the last century Roxbury was, in fact, an independent community--with power to decide many community issues itself...
...helped to translate profits from industry into needed social services. In the American city the tax power is severely limited. A new democratically controlled institution, the Community Corporation -- which administers neighborhood services and owns some neighborhood industry--is needed to fulfill the same function and to respond to the local community as no centralized nation state...
...this one on for size. Two years ago, the Harvard Classics, then a fledgling basketball squad in search of an identity and not the powerhouse it is today, traveled to the Deer Island Correctional Institute for a game with the local residents. Following the contest, a 74-73 Classics triumph, Adams House inmate Peter Durgerian sat on the visitors' bench blissfully piping a tune on his harmonica...
Fluoridation is the only state public health measure outside the jurisdiction of professionals. The legislation pending before the House would give local health officials the authority to fluoridate...
...everybody at Harvard was surprised. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, and Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, agreed that the results were predictable. "Every local or state official wants to have a good reason for asking for more federal money for various programs," Banfield said. "Whatever Mayor Lindsay's prior convictions, he needs more federal money." Furthermore,, Banfield said, "it would be impossible for an official to tell his Negro community that the cause of riots are other than racial injustice...