Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while "chain creep"--the replacement of Mom-and-Pop stores with national chains--may raise the ire of local residents, it could lower the cost of living for students who find shopping in the Square more convenient...
...survey of local businesses shows that the Square is a more expensive place to shop only if you shop at independent stores. Chains tend to keep their prices more or less uniform in the same area--in fact, in many instances chain prices are lower in the Square than elsewhere in metropolitan Boston...
...well-managed forests and their wood products. FSC-approved inspectors (in the U.S. they would be from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood group or Scientific Certification Systems) check to see whether a landowner harvests wood in a way that does not harm animal habitats, streams, indigenous peoples or the local economy. Moreover, logging must be limited to a pace that allows a forest to replenish itself over the years--a practice called sustainable forestry. Since being formed in 1993, the Mexico-based FSC has certified 25 million acres of forest worldwide, among them 4.5 million acres in 39 American forests...
...farmer to Washington. Well, the missus is happy again. Though he garnered 23% of the vote--quite a feat since he spent only about $250--Tuttle lost to incumbent Democratic Senator Pat Leahy. "I was proud of him," Dottie admits. Now Fred spends his days hanging out at the local senior-citizen center and responding to numerous requests from kids to come speak at their schools. Tuttle dedicated his $600 in left-over campaign funds to the Tunbridge public library, and he is going back into the movie business. Tuttle's biggest campaign boost was his role in neighbor...
...anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group of 650 local Holocaust survivors, will pay all living expenses for him, his wife and two children over four years. "There weren't too many people who stood up for Jews during the Holocaust," says club president William Elperin, son of two survivors. "Now Christoph has stood up for them and was punished...