Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Local paintings, a 1950s-style jukebox playing Stan Getz and Duke Ellington and an out-of-place Star Trek pinball machine create a laidback atmosphere...
...While the workshops and meetings are important to the councillors, they say the highlight of the conference is the chance to meet with members of Congress to lobby them on local issues...
Like the Harvard Union of Clerical andTechnical Workers, the security guards "local" wasa part of the Service Employees InternationalUnion (SEIU...
...film is based on British writer Alex Garland's acclaimed novel about a remote island paradise settled by a commune of world travelers, with disastrous results. Local environmentalists claim the landscape has been just as disastrously damaged by the film crew. DiCaprio has been an irresistible target of criticism from some media-savvy Thai activists and newspapers (the more artsy protesters performed skits in Leo masks decorated with fangs dripping blood), and the actor complains that he's been unjustly painted as an ecovillain. "It's a stab on my reputation if I'm associated with a film that comes...
Before shooting began, protesters staged sit-ins on Phi Phi Leh until local workers, waiting to start jobs guaranteed by the movie company, kicked them off the beach. "It was a very exciting day," says Macdonald. "These 10 wimpy Greens from Bangkok facing off against 60 to 100 of these tough fisherman types. There weren't machetes flashing, but it was a bit Jimmy Hoffa." Macdonald takes pains to explain, however, that his crew hauled tons of garbage off the island and is gingerly removing the 60-odd coconut trees as well as replanting the uprooted beach grasses...