Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Portland, Ore., the organizing committee of Earth Day is cosponsoring local festivities with "primary resource extractors" such as timber and mining companies. In return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final irony, Portland's Earth Day Fair will be held at the headquarters of PG&E, the owner of the nearby Trojan Nuclear Power Plant...
...finally caught up with Jose Suarez, 51, who is suspected by federal prosecutors of following Letelier in a car from which the bomb was detonated. The Cuban American was arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had been living under his real name for at least two years. A local policewoman identified Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking secret-police officers accused of masterminding the assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military aid to Chile...
...example, in recent years students have shown more interest in local politics. But there are very few graduate students and faculty who specialize in that area, says Peterson...
Flood meanwhile called Murphy's reaction to teacher layoffs "empty rhetoric," because he said she has not spoken out on cuts in local aid to cities and towns...
...Today's pink slips were made inevitable by the governor's decision in 1988 to veto $92 million in local aid, and the two subsequent raids on local aid," Flood said. "Where was Evelyn during that time...