Word: locales
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Missouri. By 3 to 1, voters turned down a plan to manage use of the state's 52 free-flowing streams. In addition to banning dams, all-terrain vehicles and noisy motorboats, it would have required local communities to submit waterway- management plans to a state commission...
...billion. That was an embarrassment for Governor Mario Cuomo, who made support of the project a centerpiece of his own successful re-election campaign. Now money for recycling, land preservation and other programs the bond would have financed will have to come from a reluctant state legislature or higher local taxes...
...Mexican border. The protesters, drawn by anger tinged with xenophobia, speak darkly of the immigrants. They reject the conventional wisdom that the aliens are benign job seekers who do work that Americans disdain and that generally benefits the U.S. economy. "We have nothing against Mexicans," says John Machan, a local courier. "Many of them are hard workers, and there should be a way for them to work -- but then go back home. A lot of the others don't come to work. They steal, break into people's homes, bring drugs." San Diego police say they have no evidence that...
...lives with his father in a scrap-wood lean-to. Marjorie Gaines, a city-council member in Encinitas, an upscale seaside community that includes some of the encampments, charges that undocumented workers litter, breed disease, commit crimes and harass whites. Gaines claims that drunk aliens burned down a local convenience store after the owner refused to sell them liquor. "These are border toughs," she says...
...summer of 1927, Sam Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer, paid $50 a week to a fledgling local radio station to air The La Palina Hour, a musical-variety show that would advertise his cigars. His son Bill, a company vice president, objected to the decision, which had been made while he was traveling in Europe. But years later, when William S. Paley recalled that early encounter with radio, the story had changed. He was the one, Paley said, who started the radio show -- while his father was traveling in Europe...