Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...return, he was greeted by Czech crowds chanting "Bata! Bata! Bata!" Local officials gave the Canadian industrialist a haunting tour of the giant factory that his late father had built. Dilapidated, the aging shoe factory still turns out footwear on the machinery installed by his family nearly a half-century ago. Bata plans to renovate the factory as part of a joint venture. Forty years after being driven out of his country, Thomas Bata is a returning hero...
...East's sudden escape from more than four decades of communist rule, capitalists are lured by low wage rates, an educated labor force and a pent-up market of nearly 140 million consumers in the heart of Europe. Companies from Turin to Tokyo are setting up joint ventures with local firms, and as eager executives flock to the region, such grand hotels as the Budapest Forum and the new Warsaw Marriott buzz with high-stakes deals. "Learning how to invest profitably in Eastern Europe is the hot new game of the 1990s," says Paul Horne, chief international economist for Smith...
Striking a compromise between local musicians and residents, the City Council Monday amended and then approved a detailed ordinance to regulate street performances in Harvard Square...
...rare occasions that Andy Kerr dares to show his face in coffee shops while passing through Northwestern timber towns, the local people just stare and glare. Many of them recognize him from homemade wanted posters hung in sawmills or have seen his name on banners with slogans like KISS MY AX, ANDY. Lumberjacks deride Kerr as Andy Cur or Andy Cull (a term for a worthless log). And after putting away a few beers, some loggers have even called him from tavern telephones with death threats...
...Local prosecutors have also learned that they can flex their muscles on a national scale, shutting down interstate porn operators by bringing them to trial in conservative localities. The New York-based Home Dish Satellite Network once beamed X-rated films on its American Exxxtasy Channel to 30,000 subscribers around the country. It was driven into bankruptcy earlier this year after a district attorney in Montgomery County, Ala. -- where 30 households received the service -- brought criminal charges against the company's officers for violating the state's anti-obscenity laws...