Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local residents say the controversy has made Harvard officials more aware of growing community opposition to Harvard expansion...
...tags with purple and brown markings; diamond-shape tags with yellow and white markings--the Pontiff's colors. Cameras and tape-recorders and typewriters--more than 100 of them lined up like altar boys on about 20 tables in the makeshift filing center--and telex machines. Long-distance and local phones, lots of them, with quadralingual dialing instructions posted strategically. People are chatting in English, Italian, German and Latin. The guy at the front of the room, is telling everybody that "the shepherd has come to see his flock." But he's got it all wrong; the wolves have come...
After each statehouse rally, he gives a luncheon for local born-again pastors, hoping to enlist support for Moral Majority. He mentions the need for political ecumenism, and bemoans the fact that several million "conservative Christians"-his label for those who more or less agree with his reading of the Bible-do not vote. "If there is one person in this room not registered," he tells the pastors, "repent of it. It's a sin." That message must be repeated in every congregation, he says. The order of the day must be: "Get them saved, baptized and registered...
...rejecting the initial request, which would leave the taxpayers holding the bag if Chrysler defaulted on loans from private bankers, Miller bridled not only at the size of the financial package but also at the fact that Chrysler's plan did not include aid commitments from unions and local governments. He told Riccardo and Iacocca that about $750 million in loan guarantees was the limit for Government aid and that he wanted wider participation in the rescue operation...
...Charles Hansen, 32, a computer programmer in Mountain View, Calif, the Progressive case was infuriating. Hansen felt that the Government was guilty of a double standard, having allowed such information to be released in the first place. When his local activism on the subject caught the attention of Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, Hansen wrote him an 18-page letter explaining how an H-bomb works. He also fingered three renowned scientists who had already made much of that information public in articles and interviews, but unlike the Progressive, avoided prosecution: Princeton's Theodore Taylor; M.I.T...