Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Berlin, a sign prominently displayed outside the City Hall during a debate between local officials and citizens yesterday said: "The Communist Party is Driving the Citizens out of the Country...
...Miguel, 37, work as shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies. The project fed 300 people a day, most of them children. Parents were too embarrassed to come and sent their children with pots to fill...
...focus on food safety and risks to health. Dan Howell, the director of the Americans for Safe Food project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that groups like his are flourishing. "Our membership is double what it was a few years ago," says Howell. "New local organizations are emerging across the country. Consumers rely on consumers' groups as much as on the government...
Despite such fishing expeditions, the Times is a colorful alternative to the sometimes staid Post. Hard-driving local news coverage, an award-winning sports section and provocative cultural writing make the paper a fun read. Amid reams of conservative commentary, it delivers scoops on such diverse matters as sewage-plant woes and Redskin-ticket scams. The paper covers the city's black community in greater depth than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard...
There is, however, plenty of frustration, most of it directed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Citizens and local officials complain that FEMA did not act quickly enough to help the area rebound. The agency has closed all but five of 32 disaster-assistance centers after taking more than 51,000 applications for aid. So far, the Federal Government has committed $321 million to Hugo recovery efforts in South Carolina, and $100 million has already been paid to contractors and cleanup crews. About $17 million in checks for individual victims of the storm has also been mailed...