Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't understand why my roommates got dressed up on the first day of school when I was a first-year, having come from a laid-back, casual high school in Northern California. I had thrown on the first t-shirt and pair of jeans that were in my dresser--as I had done for my 12 other first days of school. Practically everyone else in my high school had done the same...
Campaigning in California, he sat still and said little. He listened to small groups of voters, asked some questions and shook hands...
...other candidates don't do retail politics in California, the most populous state in the Union, which has historically conferred its electoral riches on candidates who blitz the state with advertising and large public appearances...
...disaster, early word was that it could have been a lot worse. Despite the strength of the tremor ? 7.6 on the Richter scale compared with 7.4 for the recent Turkish disaster ? the destruction was limited by the enforcement of strict building codes, some of them modeled after those in California. Still, a death toll of over 1,800 is high for a natural disaster in an industrialized country, and may provoke longer-term questions about patterns of development. "Natural disasters worldwide have increased eightfold since the 1970s, but there?s been very little concern for environmental issues in the rush...
...trend in Taiwan ? the island sits atop the fault line where the Philippine tectonic plate is grinding into the Eurasian plate. But in what is almost certainly an unintentional reflection of its geopolitical position, Taiwan applies three sets of building codes: its own, mainland China's and California...