Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Cambridge's largest employers, Harvard has a unique leadership position within the local community; as the nation's premier university, it wields tremendous influence among institutions of higher education. President Rudenstine has done well to approve the recommendations contained within the report, but he should realize that the committee's report has not laid to rest the moral need for a living wage for those Harvard employs...
...Cuba and fired shots at a beachfront hotel. Posing as tourists, INS agents tested the irregulars' lines in the early-morning hours and were quickly challenged; they discovered that whenever the irregulars sensed trouble, they would alert others nearby; agents think they put through a call to a local AM radio station asking for more protesters to swell the lines outside the house...
...Venezuela, three 400-ft. ships are laying down miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable capacious enough to carry 600,000 calls simultaneously. In a high mountain town outside Cuzco, Peru, a co-op of native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like the pups...
...free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly 80% of the $800 he makes each month is earned on the Internet, and he is "concentrating on international sales." The clerks at the local post office and courier service know him on sight. "There are not too many people like me in Cuzco, sending packages to Kuala Lumpur...
...lobbying group in Washington, believe taxing e-commerce would put the entire Internet sector into a tailspin. Says Wysocki: "It would change the rules of the game for dotcom entrepreneurs, who would find it nearly impossible to collect and distribute sales tax for the 7,500 state and local taxing jursidictions across America. To survive, many would probably move their businesses offshore. That could really jeopardize the long-term health of the digital economy...