Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Burying communism in the Soviet Union is proving more difficult every day. A Soviet newspaper reports that the state funeral agency in Orel, an agricultural center south of Moscow, has stopped making coffins because of a wood shortage. The local plant, however, will accommodate those who supply their own wood for a departed loved one. Porch planks and fence posts are preferred. One local worker helpfully suggests that "all who intend to leave this world wait a little...
...legged woman walks past David Lynch's table. She might be a victim from Blue Velvet or local color from Twin Peaks. But the man who dreamed up both of those nightmare entertainments pays her no heed. In the woodsy main dining room of Musso & Frank's, Hollywood's oldest eatery, the 44-year-old multimedia auteur concentrates on ordering his usual lunch: "A Swiss cheese, real Swiss cheese, on whole wheat. A side order of steamed broccoli. And a Coke." In his soft tenor voice, he discusses nutrition: "Do you like it when your sandwich is burned like that...
WHERE'S THE BEEF? More than 650,000 cans of corned beef were recalled from Jordanian refugee camps after local health officials determined that it was "not fit for consumption." One examiner noted that the product, a gift from the European Community, was "full of hair...
...ever think you'd give a Republican the shirt off your back?" Local 26 worker Olivette T. Kilroy asked Bozzotto before Malone addressed the crowd...
...most outspoken individuals at the session were not undergraduates, but local members of the Spartacus Youth League. They called the U.S. military presence in the Middle East a "naked oil grab" organized by "sell-out bureaucrats...