Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...York, protestors at the Central Park jogger trial followed Sharpton's lead and heckled the gang rape victim by calling her "slut" and "liar." Many prominent Black leaders--including some from the local NAACP--complained about the disproportionate media attention paid to the jogger, who is white. Only in the wake of public outrage did they denounce the savagery and lawlessness of the crime...
...Soon as they come around, everybody's got to go. They've got to have their own little spot," local resident Richard Andrews said, as his young son played in a nearby sandbox...
...addition, a handicapped parkgoer said his entrance to the facility was obstructed by the motorcade. Eric Dietrich, a 28-year old local resident, said he had to take his wheelchair off the pavement and onto the grass because the cars were blocking the service road...
...insurance salesmen are normally a garrulous lot. But many are keeping mum after publication this month of a Los Angeles Times article chronicling the latest industry boomlet: door-to-door pitchmen have been plying the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods and brandishing blood-and-guts clippings from the local press in order to sell cheap policies to residents who might be vulnerable to street violence. The insurance typically costs $10 a month for up to $10,000 in death benefits, enough to cover basic funeral services...
...Nothing should be more local than questions of the mind and spirit," he added...