Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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While the Supreme Court unanimously found that Clark should have ordered the local officials to raise taxes rather than doing so himself, the court split bitterly on the question of whether federal judges may intervene in matters of taxation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White said that to deny judges that right "would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments . . . to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental...
...currently an economic adviser to Hanoi, the economic infrastructure in the South remains about 35 years ahead of that in the North, despite great efforts to bridge the gap. The differences are immediately apparent between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which is still called Saigon, even by local officials...
...budding economic energy has spread even further north. Six thousand people a day cross the Chinese border at Dong Dang. Going into China, they take mostly local foodstuffs; returning, they bring Chinese machine tools and kitchenwares carried on their backs, the heavy packages balanced at either end of a bamboo pole. The goods are modern, but silhouetted against the sky, the endless stream of peasants, workers and merchants is a scene from timeless Asia...
...past year the city has encouraged the opening of "mini-hotels" for Vietnamese visitors. The managers are often enterprising city employees eager to make more money. Says Nguyen Cong Ai, vice chairman of the local People's Committee: "Our private economy is much stronger now. We are learning the lessons of the market. We want to cooperate with foreign cities, to be an open door for Vietnam." Metropolitan Saigon has a population of 3.9 million. The port itself and textile and garment manufacturing are the city's biggest industries...
Campaigned as an environmentalist, but his White House has no recycling program, earning it a spot on the Sierra Club's "Slimy Seven" list of agencies that are making no effort to comply with local...