Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Square's popularity was demonstrated this week as nineteen local businesses were named "The Best of Boston 1999" by Boston Magazine. The publication awards prizes in 350 different categories each year...
...local bookstores won recognition for their reading programs, with Harvard Book Store taking home the award for best reading series and Grolier Poetry Book Shop winning the award for best poetry store and readings...
Grolier Poetry Book Shop--which won the awards for best poetry store and readings--has also maintained a close relationship with Harvard, and has held readings for local poets including Donald Hall '51. The readings were usually held in Adams House and the Sackler Museum for the last eight years, according to Louisa Solano, the store's owner since...
Townsend has taken her father's admonition to heart and added to it the special stoicism that comes from being the tribe's eldest. Her family nicknames include "Clean Kathleen," "the Nun" and "the Un-Kennedy." Says longtime friend Tim Hagen, a former local politician in Ohio whom she met while working for her uncle Ted's 1980 presidential campaign: "At times Kathleen is so resolute she does not accept the irreconcilable." Indeed, her staff says one of her favorite words is "unacceptable...
Since starting in Congress as one of the few new Democrats after the Republican rout of 1994, Kennedy, then 27, worked hard to shed the "Congressboy" image that led a local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...