Word: localization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...
...most vulgar and least creative level, this preoccupation has surfaced in a slew of war-fever songs, spearheaded by Charlie Daniels' trigger-happy redneck anthem, "In America," and including "Bomb Iran"--a remake of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" that made the rounds of local radio stations last spring. Such songs are the contemporary analogues to the Hearst newspapers' "Remember the Maine" campaigns, somewhat less strident but equally irresponsible...
...C.W.P. members who had witnessed the shootout refused to cooperate with state investigators or to testify at the trial. Video tapes of the incident taken by local television crews showed one of the defendants, Jerry Paul Smith, firing away with a pistol in each hand at one of the victims. The tapes were played several times at the trial, but failed to convince the all-white jury as to which side had fired first. What apparently sowed the most doubt in jurors' minds was an FBI audio-analysis tracing the origins of 39 shots fired in the melee...
...contract, approved in balloting at the Comelia Avenue Nursing Home, provides public works employees, hospital orderlies, clerk typists, and other members of Local 195, Independent Public Employees Association, pay raises of nearly 10 per cent and increases in lump-sum longevity payments...
...member union--which originally ratified an identical contract in early July--voted a second time in August because some city workers covered by the contract were not informed of the vote or not allowed to cast ballots, James Cassidy, president of Local 195, said earlier this month...