Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
...them reported a sharp drop in business, running in some cases to as much as 30% to 40%. Brewers reported an overall decline in sales of only 4% to 6%, indicating that much of the pubs' losses went to home consumption of alcohol. At Minister Castle's local pub, the Blue Flag at Cadmore End, Buckinghamshire, Publican Ron Hall announced: "I haven't stopped her coming in, but you could say that we're not the best of friends any more." Instead of easing off, British police intend to increase the number of checks, reaching...
...such fashionable avantgardists as lonesco, Beckett, Pinter and the ubiquitous Brecht. More ambitious than most, Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum is genuinely trying to offer original plays. One such experiment, Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now?, opened last week to generally happy notices by local reviewers...
...volunteer faculty has 25 professors from Cornell (including Historian L. Pearce Williams and Philosopher Edwin A. Burtt) and neighboring Ithaca College, 40 Cornell graduate students, plus high school and elementary teachers. Rent-free classrooms have been provided by a local junior high school, while Cornell offered lab and library privileges. The college's only expenses are for janitors and a secretary, and its $5,000 annual budget is covered by contributions from Ithaca residents, among them Cornell President James A. Perkins and Historian Clinton Rossiter, who plans to teach at the school next year...
...Government agree that there will be too little money to meet the demands of private borrowers as well. While the Federal Government and the country's bigger corporations will snare what they need, bond experts figure that housing, auto finance, small businesses and state and local governments will be starved for funds. This year, the Federal Reserve Board's policy of monetary ease has pushed enough money into the economy to forestall a pinch, but many argue that rising inflation may soon impel the board to switch policy. "We might see the kind of pressures on interest rates...