Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...eight, his parents saw an article about local speedskating in the Boston Globe. Within a year, Weinstein was skating with the Bay State Speedskating Club...
...Each school is going to have to do that on its own," the administrator said. "I would guess that most schools are underestimating the local investments that will have to be made above and beyond what the alliance would fund...
...takes but a pair of functional ears and the modest budget of 85 cents to experience the vibrant talent of T musicians. FM inserted tokens and stomped the MBTA subway system in search of the stories behind these local voices. The findings: they are an eclectic crowd--college students, immigrants, schoolteachers and hard-working everyday people...
Students and others have urged that universities join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization that, in its words, intends to "receive and verify worker complaints of abuses and violations" of codes of conduct and "coordinate proactive investigations" of working conditions with local human rights organizations. It does not intend to conduct monitoring. It will have an organizing meeting in April, at which time it will select its governing board and advisory council and "deliberate on programmatic development...
...says the organization can best promote worker rights by creating partnerships with local NGOs...