Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Local 254 of the Service Employees International Union, will convene in Science Center E to vote on the tentative terms of the contract, agreed to in writing on Saturday by the union's negotiating team and the Harvard administration...
Fairfax, Va.: Levi Levy, 67, who has run for elective office every year since 1995, lost all five races in which he was a candidate--a local record...
...Number of foreign-policy questions George W. Bush flunked in a local TV interview. He was unable to name the leaders of India, Pakistan and Chechnya...
...best-selling author abandons the blue highways and turns to the water in an attempt to traverse America by small boat. The pace of the trip is leisurely, but Heat-Moon's exuberant erudition propels the reader with historical vignettes, ecological and geological detail, and often hilarious encounters with local eccentrics. The net effect is akin to Willard Scott channeling both Alexis de Tocqueville and John McPhee. The hearty, quote-laden banter between Heat-Moon and his mates sometimes sounds forced, but the author's wit and energy ultimately quell any cavils...
...Church and State in schools moved onto the sports field Monday, as the Supreme Court elected to review a Texas high court decision banning student-led group prayers at football games. The case arises from a 1995 complaint in the Santa Fe school district near Galveston against the local school board's decision to allow students to read any message or "invocation" over the PA system at halftime. A Federal judge ruled that such messages and prayers could go on - if they were "nonsectarian and nonproselytizing." But the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled prayer at football games...