Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Such bucolic tableaux, this one in Romania, are themselves reason enough for visiting Eastern Europe now that revolution has cut the barbed wire and the red tape that kept local citizens in and, in most cases, Westerners out. If there is a silver lining in the clouds that darkened the region for nearly a half-century, it is the fact that communist centralized planning never brought quite the mechanization of agriculture that is taken for granted in the West. This may not provide much comfort for the people of the bloc, but it has left a certain charm...
...last month Alonso thought the treatment was worth mentioning to WXIA-TV, Atlanta's NBC and CNN affiliate, which carried the story on May 25. Five days later, CNN broke the news nationally. Since then, it has been reported, sometimes skeptically, on local TV news shows around the U.S. and in such newspapers as the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times...
...Local governments in Berkeley, Portland, Ore., and Glen Cove, N.Y., have banned the material, forcing McDonald's to switch to paper packaging. About a dozen other cities have enacted similar restrictions, and hundreds more towns have considered such laws...
...least refuse any food that is enclosed in polystyrene containers. She has helped organize letter-writing campaigns to urge McDonald's to stop using the material. In some states, students have mounted a Send-It-Back campaign, in which they pack up greasy packaging and mail it to local McDonald's stores or to the company's headquarters in Illinois...
...received substantial help from a declining currency, which has made American goods less expensive overseas. Since 1985, the dollar has fallen 43% against major world currencies. American firms have also shown greater flexibility in negotiating trade deals. More U.S. companies are willing to barter or accept payment in local currency instead of dollars, notes consultant Matt Schaffer of Sand Point, Idaho, author of The Countertrade...