Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eloquent summary of its "principles, goals and commitments," the newly formed Urban Coalition of 1,200 business, labor, religious, civil rights and local government leaders last week in Washington set forth a bold and comprehensive program to alleviate the desperate plight of U.S. cities. Excerpts...
...create a closer relationship between private employers and public training and emergency employment programs to widen career opportunities. To this end, we will proceed immediately to promote "Earn and Learn Centers," in depressed urban areas . . . the joint venture of business, labor and local government...
Poverty may breed poverty, but it has also spawned a vast, ever-growing nexus of federal programs and agencies designed to help the poor. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone administers nearly 100 poverty-connected programs. More than 700 local projects concerned with citizens over 65 years of age are sponsored by HEW. Thousands of others across the country provide aid and advice to the needy, the handicapped and the undereducated. To better coordinate the programs, HEW Secretary John Gardner has gathered five major welfare agencies* under one office, named the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). To Washington...
Pumping on Signal. Surgeons injected a local anesthetic into the patient's thigh and cut into the femoral artery. They then threaded a flexible plastic tube up the artery and the aorta until a deflated balloon at its end was about level with the heart (see diagram). The outside end of the tube led to an electrically operated pump filled with nonflammable, nonexplosive helium. The patient was connected to an electrocardiograph, whose signals could control the pump...
...just to make sure that overseas bartenders-turned-publicans learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...