Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Following a week of frigid temperatures, mountains of snow and oceans of dirty puddles, local residents turned out in droves last Saturday to sample stone baked bread, saffron rice, vintage champagne and locally brewed Harpoon...
...hometown of Tucson, Ariz., three employees of the local Pizza Hut where shot to death for no apparent reason as they closed up the store. Their bodies were discovered by the fiancé of 20-year-old Melissa L. Monitz, one of the victims. He was so inconsolable he could hardly deliver a statement to the police...
...that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn on Capano in court and testify that he recruited them in the cover-up of the case. The latest twist: last week Capano's only sister Marian and her husband, local lawyer Lee Ramunno, each mounted the witness stand to defend brother Thomas and attack the credibility and honesty of brothers Louis and Gerard...
...then, of course, there's the sex. The case, which is expected to go to the jury after closing arguments early this week, has been punctuated with such bizarre and graphic accounts of Capano's sexual activities that at times the local newspapers have chosen not to publish some of the testimony. Some in the courtroom refer to the defendant as the "man with the Velcro fly." At one point a mortified Delaware deputy attorney general was forced to testify that he had had a "threesome" with Capano and MacIntyre. Capano, he said, watched through a window while...
...Local affiliates were growing restive, as ad revenues for the highly profitable time period kept shrinking. Rumors of a change had been in the air for weeks, but the ax fell suddenly: McRee was told on Sunday afternoon, after a week's vacation, not to come to work on Monday. "The show was a mess," she told TIME. "It wasn't fun to work on, and it wasn't fun to watch." ABC-News President David Westin acknowledges that drastic measures were needed. "[The show] simply was not getting better fast enough," he says. "I concluded that we needed...