Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first eight years. When he joined the family last year...
...21st century the U.S. work force will need fewer strong backs and more strong minds. To prepare for that future, local businesses are pairing up with local schools to provide students with training and jobs. Since 1974 St. Louis County has had a program, now expanded to Kansas City, that gives high school seniors two hours of instruction each day at area work sites. About half the participating students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students...
...that some of the 40,000 regulars lack both the esprit and basic fighting skills required to hold back the resistance forces. The army's recent practice of shanghaiing young conscripts off the streets is not likely to generate goodwill -- or good soldiers. The national battalions are supplemented by local and provincial militias, perhaps 150,000 in all, which Hun Sen hopes will do better at defending their homes. As yet, both the army and the rural militias are largely untested. But last week the regulars were still resisting a Khmer Rouge offensive on Pailin, a ruby-rich district near...
...offices because it was "poor in quality, provincial and British in nature with little articles about the soccer team in South Wales." Friction grew to the point that Blue Arrow tried to fire Fromstein, but in a battle for control he wound up in charge of the combined company. Local animosity toward Blue Arrow was so pervasive that Milwaukee's major league baseball team, the Brewers, flashed the news of Fromstein's victory on the scoreboard during a home game...
...Ferdinand Marcos, once overlord of the Philippines, had become a joke. He mumbled that he was living on charity, but visitors to his rented $2.5 million residence $ outside Honolulu saw the dozen servants, the 30 bodyguards and the chauffeured limousine. His wife Imelda was a regular at posh local shops and every now and then gave in to the temptation to show off her finery -- except for new shoes...