Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...That's the kind of customer I get now," he says. "He isn't local, that's for sure. You have to wonder where he comes from...
...Sacha, too, wants to leave Russia. Marie helps him rejoin the local swim team by going with him every day to a river where he rebuilds his strength by swimming against the current. She hopes he will win a national race and be selected to go to Vienna for the European championships. Once out of the Soviet Union, Sacha will be able to help Marie...
...staying out of the political fray, the bureau has invested heavily in television ads, currently in rotation across the country, which depict various and wholly unpleasant effects of dismissing the importance of a census form. A young mother struggling to hold down a job without the benefit of a local Head Start program, a farmer and his wife watching helplessly as their fire department struggles to fight a raging barn fire without working hoses...
...language and ethnicity serve a benign, even benevolent purpose: Those statistics allow the government to provide populations with voting materials in the appropriate language, can ensure equitable employment practices under the Civil Rights Act, and can track health care and disease disparities. Despite what you may hear at your local bar or from your U.S. senator, the Census Bureau is not out to rob us of our privacy or plant an evil germ of totalitarian government control. Believe it or not, they're trying - in that unwieldy, slightly clumsy, bureaucratic way of theirs - to make our lives better...
...Alessandro said she is finding "creative" ways to deal with the funding issue by seeking donated services from local businesses and using district personnel to oversee the rearranging of the school over the summer, rather than using outside contractors...