Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Listen Up. Outdoor concerts follow the warm weather. Check out FM listings or the Boston Phoenix for specifics, but as the weather warms up Boston’s venues fill with national and local bands. Try the Fleet Center Pavilion for outdoor shows...
...hometown was not friendly to hockey. We had no local team—minor league, high school or otherwise. The ponds didn’t freeze in the winter and the nearest rink was an hour’s drive away. The local sporting good store had no hockey equipment, save little plastic hockey sticks marketed at the pre-school crowd. And so, during the summers and warm winters, we settled for roller hockey—a slow, clunky substitute that always ended prematurely after our only ball fell into the rain gutter. To the neighborhood kids, we were heroes...
...club is thriving,” said Ms. Louisa Deland, who joined just four years ago. “Especially now, with the economy booming.” The Chilton has always had a continued devotion to gardening, debutante teas, the Winter Ball and charity work for local hospitals, museums and other cultural institutions...
...desire to recover some control over the city. Boston’s clubs were [and still are to some extent] the “caucus rooms of the city’s financial and charitable leaders.” The Brahmin establishment felt impelled to play some part in local government. As they had lost control of municipal institutions, they also lost their trust in them. It was this distrust that led to the incorporation of museums, orchestras and other charitable ventures. It was this power grab that lay behind the founding of the Museum of Fine Arts...
...There is a chasm between health people and environmental health," said Richard Jackson, director of the government's National Center for Environmental Health. "The connections have got to start at a local level...