Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the summer of 1954, a group of Arab nationalist prisoners from a nearby detention camp, working on a water main near the monastery, complained of the heat and their thirst. The prior dispatched some monks with mint-flavored tea, a favorite Moroccan drink, for the prisoners. When the local French commandant ordered him to stop, he refused, explaining simply that it was "elementary Christian charity...
...summer, the hotel and town are crammed with tourists. It is time for the Nabokovs to leave. They do -to a different place every year, chosen for the local lepidoptera. This year it will be Lugano. Nabokov seemingly never tires of saying he may return to the U.S. "Especially in spring," he says, "I dream of going to spend my purple-plumed sunset in California, among the larkspurs and oaks and in the serene silence of her university libraries...
...their mouths." "Romney," he says, "has a fixation in his mind that you can turn out houses off a factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...
...urgent need is for the building trades to open ranks and find room for more qualified young men, particularly Negro ghetto dwellers. Toward that end, union hiring halls might be abolished by law and discriminatory apprenticeship requirements sharply reduced. Regional bargaining, such as Ohio contractors have begun, should replace local negotiating...
Lane decided that his bank, the biggest in the Deep South (assets: $1.5 billion), should become deeply involved in increasing home ownership and black capitalism in deprived areas. As a first step, he devised "the Georgia Plan," which starts with local cleanup drives and leads to high-risk improvement loans...