Word: localitis
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...Members of the New York, L.A. and D.C. groups are actual movie critics, the employees of local (and a few national) newspapers and magazines - which means they should probably be petitioning Congress for a bailout. ("Senator, if we don't get money and job security right now, it could have a disastrous impact on American blurb-writing. Adjectives like riveting, blistering and unforgettable, not to mention all our cherished W's - warm, winsome, winning, wonderful - could simply disappear. And all that prose is produced right here...
...production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, the editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here all of a sudden...
...worries. She's still on maternity leave, but had hoped to return to work soon. That's now looking impossible. What's more, prices keep going up, including her rent, she complains, and she's had to pay a $200 bribe to get her son into a local nursery. "You tell that to Putin and Medvedev," she says angrily, and then worries that she'll get into trouble for talking to foreigners...
Those once crucial food-shopping decisions between local and organic became a lot less important when the recession rolled in. Sales of Spam, which comes in neither of those varieties, haven't been this big since World War II, when soldiers overseas were sent vacuum-sealed cans of cooked pork shoulder, ham, water, sugar, salt, sodium nitrite (to maintain the porcine color) and potato starch (to maintain the cat-food-like consistency...
...Given the heightened threat perception over the last three to four years, there has to be a system of tagging to let the local police know which threats to take seriously," John says. He adds that the system needs a federal mechanism to follow up on what action is taken on intelligence disseminated among the security agencies...