Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other Miccosukee moves are less pleasing to environmentalists. Besides building a casino on the Everglades' eastern edge, the tribe has sided with property holders in a disputed 8.5-sq.-mi. area a few miles to the south. There, some 1,400 landowners--many of them Cuban exiles--are resisting local government efforts to buy up their properties and flood them as part of the restoration. Surprisingly, the Miccosukees have sued in favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration...
...then there is Hemingway's infatuation with Debba, a young Wakamba woman whom he seems inclined to take, in accordance with local customs, as a second wife. Mary notes, "I think it's wonderful that you have a girl that can't read nor write so you can't get letters from her." Such comments do not deflect Hemingway's attention from Debba's charms: "When we rode together in the front seat she liked to feel the embossing on the old leather holster of my pistol. It was a flowered design and very worn and old and she would...
...people outside the base knew the Army had approved such a group until a couple of months ago, when a photo of a torchlight ritual appeared in a local paper. As word spread, Christian groups and politicians denounced the Wiccans as both satanic and inappropriate in the U.S. Army. Eleven religious organizations called on Christians not to enlist or re-enlist until the Army stops supporting witchcraft. "What's next?" asked Republican Congressman Bob Barr in a letter to Fort Hood's commander. "Will armored divisions be forced to travel with sacrificial animals for satanic rituals?" G.O.P. Senator Strom Thurmond...
...warning you I will walk away from this if you don't keep it peaceful," the leader of Portadown's Orangemen, Harold Gracey, told his charges through a loudspeaker before ordering them away from the front line and up the hill for tea and sandwiches at the local minister's house. For the first time in memory, they listened. But for how long? Protestant leader David Trimble has set a condition for his restless constituency?s newfound docility: An IRA statement confirming disarmament plans. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is going ahead without it, and by Parliamentary decree Northern Ireland...
Take, for example, the six daily local papers read by a population of just over a million people. Each paper caters to the viewpoint of one of the factions--the moderate Catholics, for example, or the extreme Protestants--and so one can immediately determine a person's political attitudes based primarily on the paper to which he or she subscribes...