Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peruvian government intends to compensate owners for the expropriation by paying cash for installations and issuing 20-year local-currency bonds for the land. It hopes that the bonds will be reinvested in either private or government industrial projects. Some cynics, unable to quite believe in genuine reform emanating from a military regime, contend that Velasco aims only at boosting the prestige of his military government and breaking the rival power of the oligarchy. They also worry that his program is concerned more with property rights than with production and productivity...
Nonetheless, Brevard County, beneath its pleasant surface, is more than normally edgy. The technicians who assemble and service the rockets have chosen a tense career, and it has taken its toll on their personalities, their marriages and their community. Local psychiatrists and social workers describe the prevailing pattern of life as "the engineer syndrome," and often it seems that only a computer could love...
Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
...carry more weight than another's is a denial of equal protection of the law, the court ruled in subsequent cases that voting districts of unequal population were illegal for Congress (Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964), and for legislative bodies in the states (Reynolds v. Sims, 1964), and in local government (Avery v. Midland County, 1968) as well...
...worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters accuse Grandier of indecent and immoral behavior, which has led to their being possessed by the devil. The charges coincide with certain local political and ecclesiastical intrigues that find Grandier an ideal scapegoat. Despite agonized hours of torture, the priest denies that he is a diabolic instrument, but is burned at the stake anyway...