Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard University Network will bring down local and long distance fees because it allows the University to negotiate rates as one very large customer...
Invading animals are also a difficult problem. Rats have been hitching rides to the islands on ships for centuries, then escaping into the forests where they feast on nesting birds and their eggs. Local authorities imported mongooses to hunt the rats in 1883. But no one considered that mongooses hunt in the early morning and early evening, when the rats are not out. So the mongooses switched to birds, compounding the problem...
...Wellses in Pennsylvania, the choices are prescribed by a take-home income of $600 a month, which Al earns making respirators at a local factory. After five years, he is paid $5.68 an hour -- which means that the increase in the minimum wage did him no good at all. Nearly half his take-home salary goes to rent the 12-ft. by 65-ft. trailer he, his wife and three children live in and the lot it sits on; $20 is set aside for the gas he needs to get to the factory. "His working is our livelihood, so that...
...face of it, Jennifer and her husband Jeff appear to have a perfectly comfortable income. Their combined salaries -- he is a machinist in the microwave division of Varian; she is a night clerk for a local food distributor -- total about $37,000 a year, middle class by any standard for a family of four. But since they are ineligible for most support programs, they face many of the same dilemmas as minimum-wage earners: the hard decisions, the small indignities and the rough edges of approximate poverty. "They say we're middle class," says Jennifer, "but this...
...tables come from her parents, the hutch from his. "Everything here has a story to it," says Jennifer. The one new item is a clock on the wall with a picture of the Grateful Dead on the face. They spotted it one afternoon at a local fair, and Jeff, a diehard "Dead Head," fell in love. At $15 he resisted the urge, until Jennifer insisted that he buy it. "Sometimes," she told him, "you just got to do something for yourself because it'll make you feel good...