Word: local
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friends of Newt Gingrich political-action committee pay for other projects. Gingrich last month put up websites to promote his other endeavors: revamping Social Security to allow people to invest their own premiums; abolishing inheritance taxes; and shrinking government by cutting a combined load of federal, state and local taxes to no more than 25% of income...
Four years later, Frazier is well again. He has worked for two years on an elite longshoreman's crew that cleans up oil spills, and served for a year as president of his union local. He commutes to work from a new apartment, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter. Frazier owes his stunning turnaround to medication that has brought his mental illness under control, but also to an underutilized treatment known as psychosocial rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once...
...shoulder. And from there it's into the reservation and a three-minute boat ride to the United States." The going price is $500. Those who don't arrive with the aid of smugglers simply walk off the reservation and catch a Trailways bus. The local bus stop is the Big M Market in Massena, N.Y. Says the manager: "They come in every other day." But an understaffed border patrol can only do spot checks there...
...called Pokeballs, hence the etymology of Pokemon, short for Pocket Monsters). The battles are mediated by the electronics of the Game Boy. But don't worry: Pokemon do not die. When they lose battles, they faint. And if that happens to your Pokemon, you can take it to the local Pokemon Center, a high-tech spa where it can be restored to "fighting...
...some of the dumb stuff I wanted to do when I was 15, I'm glad someone stopped me." (But even wise Aaron clearly can't imagine any drawbacks to his future as a 40-year-old man with a Yoda tattoo.) Ron Stiehl, the proprietor of my local piercing and tattoo parlor, says that for kids who want to try out a tattoo, artists can apply henna designs, which last about three weeks...