Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...major effect on the results of the election. Voters on the West Coast are able to watch the East Coast's results before their polls close. This has the potential to discourage voters from the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones from voting, thus changing the outcome of important local, state, and national elections...
...heralded by "the German giant of the media world" snapping up Napster, and promising to drastically change the way that the file sharing agent works. Rubalcava's ridiculous claim amounts to heralding the death of the home health care industry on the occasion of CVS buying out your local mom-and-pop drug store...
Winters has volunteered to help with elections since she was 18. She has also worked on campaigns for local aldermen and on the House campaign of Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass...
TIME.com: People sometimes jokingly compare Miami's local politics to the Third World, but when reports surface about lost ballot boxes turning up in nursery schools, that no longer seems so funny...
...violence of the past six weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts to restore calm. Even local leaders of his own Fatah organization have called for an escalation of the confrontation with Israel despite Arafat's attempts to rein in the street...