Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopped wearing the hoop skirts reminiscent of the Old South because the principal said it was too expensive to rent and dry-clean the clothes. Though some might say that wearing such outfits was a silly custom, I think it is sad that a tradition so evocative of the region's heritage was stopped for such a pragmatic reason...
Other entities that once made the region unique have fallen by the wayside all over the South. Friends and relatives who used to do their banking at BankSouth or Citizens and Southern (known as C&S) must now bank at Nations Bank or Sun-Trust, larger banks that have merged with the more local banks. Grocery stores such as Piggly-Wiggly have been replaced by larger chains like Publix. Though changes in the name of the place where you bank or buy your groceries may seem trivial, I think they are part of a larger, unfortunate trend--the homogenization...
...love and appreciate the culture of the South. Though as a Southerner I have to put up with my share of jokes about inbreeding and rednecks and even the half-joking remark made by a Harvard professor about people in the South eating dirt, I cannot think of another region in the United States where I would have preferred to have grown...
...been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans and is expected to move across the Gulf then inland somewhere between Gulfport, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama by Saturday. The Hurricane is expected to dump 10 to 20 inches of rain on the region and produce isolated tornadoes in some spots. After forming Wednesday morning in the north central Gulf, Danny built into a tropical storm Thursday morning. It drifted northeast and then came to a standstill about 110 miles southwest of New Orleans. By Thursday night, Danny was on the move again, this...
Walsh graduated from Sffolk College in 1976 with a degree in philosophy. After coaching suffolk's baseball team for 14 years and being named ABCA Northeast Region Division III Coach of the Year in 1995, Walsh was recruited to coach at Harvard. In his two seasons, Walsh has led the Crimson to a 57-33 record...