Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing work... We are going to sort it out." At issue is the Unionist refusal to allow Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, into the territory?s new local government structure until the IRA begins turning over its weapons. Sinn Fein insists that the Unionists are reinterpreting the Good Friday Agreement signed last year, and Blair hopes to forge a compromise...
...mixing of work and play creates a beautiful sight: workers in front of their terminals into the wee hours. "I don't think there is leisure time anymore. New-media workers don't take time off and decompress; their idea of time off is playing Quake on the LAN [local area network]," says Steve Baldwin, co-author of the forthcoming book Netslaves...
...like the stadium, located squarely in the Bronx. Recently built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering June afternoon...
HUNTING So-called bush meat, which includes gorilla flesh, has long been an important part of local diets. But as the human population grows and new roads make it easier to ship gorilla meat to the cities, the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. There are laws against killing gorillas for any reason, but enforcement is spotty...
...were one of the millions of fans who mourned the demise of M*A*S*H in 1983, you probably find solace in watching reruns every night and most days on local stations and cable. But they incense ALAN ALDA, who played Hawkeye in the TV series, and creator LARRY GELBART. They contend that Fox, which owns the licensing rights to M*A*S*H, has frittered away their show's value by airing so many reruns. In a lawsuit filed about 15 months ago against 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that...