Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Cambridge, the issue of the Commonwealth Day School's departure was anything but over. Fueled by an onslaught of media attention, city residents and local politicians were quick to point to the school's racial composition as evidence of a serious racial bias in the Brattle St. area...
What brought Graham to the stage was deep-seated resentment toward Harvard's dealings with the local community. The corporation, she told the audience at that Commencement, was recklessly committed to expanding its interests in the Cambridge real estate market without any discussion...
...Divestiture (E4D)--a fund which will go to the University if it sells all stocks in companies that do business in South Africa--did better than its organizers expected. Students involved with E4D say that seniors have pledged $2000 to the $26,000 fund, which will go to local charities if Harvard does not divest...
...vote for blasphemy, pederasty and buggery. They should think again. And so should those who imagine support of the arts would be better served by putting the NEA's budget in the hands of the states, an alternative Republican proposal that would trivialize arts funding in a melee of local politics...
...wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense of smell, vicious temperament and high birthrate -- sows can bear litters of up to 15 young four times a year -- the beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half. But hunters risk their lives if they go near enough to shoot the pigs and must rely instead on haphazard metal traps and sisal nets...