Word: localize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. Oral arguments in the federal suit brought by the National Wildlife Federation will be heard in a Washington, D.C., court on Jan. 3, and there is no telling exactly when or how the case will be resolved. Meanwhile, another suit to halt exploration has been brought by several local parties, including the Alaskan town of Kaktovik, a coastal hamlet populated by 175 Eskimos. Since bowhead meat is a staple of the villagers' diet, their lawyers argue, the Eskimos could be afflicted with "serious mental and emotional anxiety" if they felt that the drilling was disturbing the whales...
Officers at Aeroquip were skeptical when the Youngstown employees presented their plan to buy the plant, but they agreed to sell if the buyers could pay the $2.5 million price. Frank Ciarniello, head of the United Rubber Workers local and a machine operator at the plant, and William Hawkins, then a general foreman and now vice president for operations, persuaded C.C. ("Pete") Broadwater, Aeroquip's manager of hose operations, to quit his job and join the new company as chairman and president. Aided by the Ohio Public Interest Campaign, a group that works to encourage business development, and Youngstown...
...been able to have her cake and Edith too. In Boston, two women drivers were added to a once all-male payroll, and in Washington, she was expertly guided through the city's busy streets by Joann Wernke, 24. In Seattle, how ever, Stapleton suggested that a local limo service was taking the wrong route by keeping it all in the family just a little too much: it hired only women. Said she: "I hope that's only transitional, because that's not the goal of feminism. The goal is to forget about it and regard everybody...
...Nadia came to Fort Worth determined to prove that little girls can grow up and still be winners. In the first day of compulsory exercises, she ran off her usual daunting string of performances. Then an infection flared in her left hand and she was forced to enter a local hospital for treatment. When she emerged the next day, her hand was red and swollen to nearly twice its normal size. Despite obvious pain, she competed in one more event, the balance beam, and as the crowd gasped, whipped through two flipflops, bearing all her weight on one hand. Nadia...
...morning. Say it in the evening./ Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers who refused to take smallpox vaccinations 15 years ago are now "dropping uppers and downers with the best of them," and "Benares looks set on replacing Bangkok as Needle City, Asia...