Word: californian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
Strange as it sounds, the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has made the first moves toward an anti-smoking ban of Californian proportions. The ban would cover all workplaces, stadiums, schools, universities, theaters, hospitals, even public transport, nearly every place where Russians light...
...what about going home? I'm a Californian by birth and heritage, and I have spent enough summers in California to know that the locale can be heaven on earth. Why give that up? Why unnecessarily antagonize my parents by seeing them for a total of only five weeks in 1999? (While that might seem like a lot of time, it really isn't for an only child who talks to her parents every other day.) Because I want to eventually live in California, for me it represents the past and the future, but not necessarily the present...
...native Californian, Robinson had planned to follow in his father's footsteps and become a doctor, but instead studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. At 28 he found himself heading Anne Klein's collection line. In 1996, after Robinson had served three seasons to mixed reviews, the company closed its high-end business. Jobless at 30, he decided to start his own label that year...
These are but two examples of an instinct that leads students to take courses and read books in familiar subject areas instead of exploring unfamiliar departments and disciplines. I plead guilty to this instinct: A native Californian, I enrolled last spring in Literature 120, "Cityscapes: Los Angeles" when I could have instead studied algorithms or ancient history...