Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...decided to try and do something before it was too late." Dees-Thomases scrawled her plans for a march on Washington on the back of an envelope. Within a week, she had reserved the Mall for an event she didn't yet have any participants for. Classified ads in local papers advertised an 800 number, and contacts with gun-violence victims' groups across the country helped disseminate the word through e-mail and Internet news groups...
...voters--that is, the most women whose votes are available to candidates of either party. Nancy Inhofe, a Tulsa, Okla., emergency-room pediatrician and mother of two, was reared as a conservative Republican and is a daughter-in-law of Oklahoma's Republican Senator James Inhofe. But Nancy, a local coordinator for the Million Mom March, describes herself as an independent voter and says the march defies political distinctions. "It doesn't matter what side you're on politically," she says. "Personal experience has prompted me and people like me to want to make sure guns are safe...
...money. He's there because it's an exciting job that pays extremely well. He doesn't reek with gratitude for being allowed into the league. The player enjoys being part of a team and part of the community--Sprewell last week donated $100,000 for athletic gear for local kids--but does not suffer a coach's presumptions, familiarities or tyrannical moods...
...baby, Alexander, is born after 36 hours of labor on a Christmas morning. "It's amazing," Katherine tells her daughter, "how nature slaps women with everything at once--you take care of a new baby 24 hours a day, just when you're most exhausted." For a fee, a local firm called MotherKind provides cooking and cleaning and moral support for the new mother's first few weeks. Then, "MotherKind was finished; Kate herself was MotherKind...
Right--the movies. They are the reason we care about Groucho in the first place. You can get the films at your local video shop, and they won't make you dislike...