Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hope Republican contender for New York Governor has turned into the state's Nowhere Man. When the New York Times asked local voters to identify Rinfret, only 25% could. Others said he was a French chef, a hockey player, a Las Vegas crooner and a brand of perfume...
Walter Haas had plenty to spend; he is an heir to the Levi Strauss jeans fortune. He also had a resilient young pitching staff and a local rabbit named Rickey Henderson. To nurture the team to respectability, though, he needed a quick fix and a long view. He already had the first in Billy Martin, a brilliant, volatile field manager. Before he wore out both his welcome and the arms of his starting pitchers (all were shortly out of the majors), Martin , hustled the A's to the play-offs in 1981 and, with his run-and-gun style...
Even more restrictively, the Pope directs local bishops to take "the initiatives necessary" to strengthen a school's Catholic character. The decree's most contentious elements are printed in the smallest type: footnotes | cite clauses in the 1983 Code of Canon Law that mandate a local bishop's prior approval for appointments of religion teachers and that empower bishops to remove dissident faculty, although it is unclear how that would be accomplished...
...theology chairman at the University of Notre Dame, warns that the document's insistence on adherence to church teachings fails to recognize that "not all teachings are equally authoritative -- and some are wrong." And while major institutions like Notre Dame might be immune to the pressure of a conservative local bishop, McBrien says that "a right-wing bishop could move in on a smaller institution, and the board would cave in." The key question is whether the decree's ambiguous language will inspire any bishops to do just that...
...many nation-states are becoming obsolete; the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, India and others demonstrate that their artificial Nationality does not satisfy their nationalities. Nation-states are apt to be too small and ineffective to cope with the global economy and yet too large and insensitive to cope satisfactorily with local problems...