Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have spawned their first backlash movement against the merger mania of the '80s. Advocates of tough new antitakeover laws that are sprouting from Massachusetts to South Dakota claim that the legislation will prevent outsiders from looting local firms and throwing residents out of work. Critics are concerned that the rules will entrench inefficient corporate managers and drive investors elsewhere...
...meets in a rented community center, Stallings has established satellite congregations in Norfolk, Va., Baltimore and Philadelphia. To date he has attracted several thousand disciples, both ex-Catholics and ex-Protestants. Stallings says he gives eight or ten speeches a month around the U.S., and each time he speaks, local blacks want to set up churches. But the priest of a second African-American congregation in Washington forsook Stallings last year...
among the humane community he is a very conciencious individual," said Ole Anderson, executive director of Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, a local animal advocacy group...
Cambridge has named local veterinarian Stuart E. Wiles the nation's first city official charged with monitoring the treatment of laboratory animals, City Manager Robert W. Healy announced Monday...
Washington's mayor, videotaped allegedly smoking crack with a sultry model in a local hotel, now shamelessly raises money for re-election and is being taken seriously in the drug-ravaged city he has mismanaged...