Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although these students were handed the punishment of delinquents by their local school committee, in many ways they were more mature and sensible than the Massachusetts Board of Education that imposed the test on them in the first place...
Members of the Harvard contingent, organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and the Boston Campus Action Network, a local organization, left for Washington Friday morning...
...light of the latest local catastrophe, the mismanagement of the Central Artery Tunnel project (a.k.a. "The Big Dig"), it's nice to see that private citizens are taking it upon themselves to help serve the community at large. In this era of expanding government programs to levels that would make Thomas Jefferson cry, some prominent locals are doing great things without government involvement. Former 8th district congressman Joe Kennedy founded a non-profit organization called "Citizen's Energy." The non-profit corporation uses entrepreneurial revenue to provide heating and oil to low-income families at up to 40 percent below...
...multi-million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested that the Faculty has not received proper returns from funds deposited in central administration accounts...
...separate department for non-traditional purchases was only a circle on a new CEO's org chart. His goal, Ping explained, was "to consolidate the supplier base" and thereby "leverage spending." In English, this meant that where once each of the company's manufacturing plants had different local suppliers, they would now buy every item in larger volumes at lower prices from one or two national suppliers. "This seems to be the trend nowadays," Ping told me. "In the beginning, they hired some consultants to do a diagnostic and found out there was a saving potential. Then the management...