Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home was donated by a church in nearby Pearl to a nonprofit organization called MadCAAP -- short for Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty -- which helps poor people in one of the poorest parts of the nation. Financed solely by donations and grants, MadCAAP takes old wood-frame buildings that local communities and private owners no longer need and hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled old houses...
...grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind, and kids on bicycles stop to gaze at the rolling house...
...immediately local level, answers have attimes been clear. Undergraduates have picketedalleged fake abortion clinics, confrontedOperation Rescue members at pregnancy centers andrallied support for state amendments securingabortion rights...
...hour at the center in Coolidge Hall, about 60 Soviet scholars and local chess enthusiasts shot. questions at Kasparov, who in 1985 became the youngest chess Grand master in history at age 22. Kasparov, a full member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1984 and a Azerbaijani Central Committee member, will play an exhibition chess match in Cambridge today...
...need the shit," says one local liquor dealer. "I'm not losing my license for eight bucks...