Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kennedy developed a program of elegant practicality that became a $50,000 winner. Reaching Up helps health-care workers help themselves through training programs it has persuaded local officials to fund at several New York colleges. Hundreds have learned to do their jobs better through the training, and many have been promoted as a result. Kennedy also lent the family name--and with it, a measure of respect--to the Kennedy Fellows, a group of 75 health-care workers chosen each year for $1,000 scholarships...
...street to the airport is impossible to know, but as a pilot, he was clearly up against it. Night was falling, and he had two stops to make that evening: one in Martha's Vineyard to drop off Lauren, then on to Hyannis Port. Earlier, Kyle Bailey, a local pilot, had canceled a planned flight from Essex because of a troubling haze that had already reduced visibility. Bailey decided to ground himself when he looked off in the distance for a familiar mountain ridge but couldn't see it. "That is a test that most pilots use at the airport...
...Florida petition drive is aimed at putting a referendum on the ballot next year to bar state and local governments from using race in hiring, contracting and school admissions. It's the latest effort of Ward Connerly, the controversial mixed-race businessman who got similar measures passed in California in 1996 and in Washington State last year. He's made Florida his next battleground, and he plans to travel there this week to make a major speech. But Connerly hopes Florida will also be something more: a vehicle for pushing his anti-affirmative-action crusade into the center...
...film team has come to Mount Rose, Minn., to document its annual Sara Rose Cosmetics(R)(c)[TM] Miss Teen Princess America Pageant. And this time it's personal. The local doyen (Kirstie Alley) is ready to kill, really, to ensure that her daughter Becky (Denise Richards) will win over trailer-park cutie Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst). Got all the movie references? Here is a mockumentary (Waiting for Guffman, The Blair Witch Project) about a high school contest (Smile, Election) set among the funny-talking rubes of rural Minnesota (Fargo or every third episode of Mystery Science Theater...
...pride and friendship and whether one should pack Tic Tac or gum on a date are timeless. On a wedding day three pals (Richard T. Jones, Omar Epps and Taye Diggs) flash back to their youth in Inglewood, Calif., courting the girls and stoutly refusing a joint from the local gangster ("What are you all, Muslims or something?"). The movie is aiming more for American Graffiti than American Pie; it dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh. But this is tired...