"Every area received a very thorough assessment, " Tiago Paes, the Stadiums Operations Manager for the Local Organizing Committee, told FIFA.com.

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"We have always wanted the 2010 FIFA World Cup to touch the lives of as many South Africans as possible, " local organizing committee boss Danny Jordaan says.

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The local organizing committee for the tournament, the Supreme Committee for Qatar 22, and the company it appointed to help oversee World Cup construction, CH2M HILL, have said they will establish labor standards that builders and other contractors hired to build World Cup venues must meet.

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This is accomplished by a variety of strategies, including organizing local opposition, changing zoning laws, preventing permits, filing lawsuits, and using other long delay mechanisms, effectively bleeding projects dry of their financing.

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Local Yokel is trying to solve this problem by signing up thousands of local publishers and aggregating and organizing their ad availabilities.

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Mareshia and her friends bucked 40 years of local customs this month by organizing their own integrated prom, a formal dance open to Wilcox County's white, black, Latino and Asian high school students.

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Store managers are already responsible for organizing in-store events while community relations managers work with local schools to promote literacy and the arts.

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The task of organizing hunting parties to try to shoot this hippo fell to several local chiefs.

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