Word: california
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Which is what could happen in California this week. Bauer has inserted himself into a battle between two Republicans in a special election for a House seat in Santa Barbara. The district is made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes...
Kellerman agrees that certain phrases can often clue in fellow Harvard students to his California heritage. Because of this, Kellerman says he has stopped using many words...
...dropped a lot of California phraseology since being here," says Kellerman. "When I'm here I tend to drop `totally', `dude...
Sara A. Yellen '00 says she too does not fit the California stereotype...
While residents of California are quick to distance themselves from the stereotypes of the West Coast, New Yorkers, who comprise about 15 percent of the College's students, readily affirm the images universally associated with their city and its people...