Successful companies must be intensely local and intensely global at the same time - an apparent contradiction wherein lies the formula for success.

People tend to think of the medieval world as being intensely local, but actually it was also very international.

Despite its national dimensions, the struggle here has an intensely local side, a bit of the rich stew that is small-town Southern life.

Now, showing that economics, like politics, is intensely local, the city is enjoying something of a manufacturing boom even as American factory activity sags.

His harvest was a book that, like a pebble tossed into his pond, widened from the intensely local to the national and even the international.

Ever since Massachusetts founded the nation's first public school 150 years ago, the education of children has been seen as an intensely local matter.

It is an intensely local culture, and has been thriving in recent years.

No longer powered by heavy industrial global methods, but by the slow, steady, and intensely local process of working on individual patches of land.

That in itself gives an insight into what life was like 500 years ago: intensely local.

The issues on which these races were decided were intensely local.