Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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September is a month of change in Boston. Leaves change colors, the Red Sox choke, and teenagers from across the nation and the world descend upon the Commonwealth in search of higher education, becoming an economic force to be reckoned with. No one is more aware of this than local radio stations, which go to great lengths to seduce this mass of purchasing power. Few are guiltier of such shameless snakecharming than 104.1 WBCN, the "Rock Revolution", who sponsored the College Rave '99 at the BankBoston Pavilion on Sunday. With a college ID and ten dollars, you could be subjected...
...particular, she is committed to the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund and to Music for Marlboro, a local music festival in Marlboro...
...second sign in a week that Harvard is taking a new tack in its relationship with Boston, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine spoke yesterday to local businesspeople at Boston's Four Seasons Hotel...
...Many local companies sent employees to hear Rudenstine speak...
...evacuated after workers saw blue flames rising above a batch of fuel and complained of nausea. Radiation levels 15,000 times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan?s previous worst nuclear accident two years ago, when 35 workers were contaminated by an explosion. Local schools were ordered to keep their windows closed, and 300,000 people living in the vicinity were advised to wash off any rain that fell on them...