Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sentiment in the heart of the region that created the Internet. But official Washington isn't about to disappear. Administration officials, Senators and members of Congress--and, more important, the fund-raising arms of their political parties--are making it a point to know who's who in the local tech world. "We have no problem getting our phone calls returned," says John Backus, chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), a business-promotion group...
...shopping center, Tysons Corner, was just a big mall. Today Tysons is the 14th largest business district in the U.S. It consists of two strip malls and two mega-malls near one another, with 80,000 people working in the vicinity and dozens of high-end outfitters--like the local Tiffany & Co., which outsells the company's flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...surface, the vote didn't cause too massive of a change. Only a few questions would be removed from the state exam and local school districts still had to prepare their students for a medley of other standardized tests which would require teaching evolution. Most vowed that they would continue teaching the subject in its entirety anyway, no matter what the school board decided...
...night was marked by glowing tributes from local and state officials...
...begins once you're admitted--the answer to constant questions of your newly chosen college usually stops at "Massachusetts" or maybe, if you're brave enough, Boston. If pressed, you mumble Harvard as if you've just mentioned time in your local prison. Once you arrive on campus, it becomes clear that the sweatshirt you bought as a starry-eyed prefrosh will no longer be good for much other than visits home. Basically, we all try to pretend we don't really go to Harvard, in some sort of bizarre modesty or insecurity about what that means about us. Maybe...