Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...history. When he became host of a new late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed in front of the camera, gabbed with his announcer and bandleader, ad-libbed easily with guests and brought to TV a new sense of intimacy and informality. Amid the high-pitched show-biz artifice of most...
PLAN: Provide vouchers. Continue to support the Department of Education. Allow states to develop their own standards and tests. Ensure literacy of every child by the third grade. Promote enforceable standards at the local level. Provide choice of schools to parents and children and publish school report cards on the Internet...
...IMPACT: National standards give way to local and state testing requirements. Reading takes center stage in classrooms. Public schools could suffer as vouchers shift money to private and parochial schools...
...IMPACT: Washington enjoys greater influence on local school districts. Teachers' unions balk at testing requirements, but cheer federally mandated raises. A Republican Congress could resist spending plan and/or push for vouchers. ENVIRONMENT GEORGE W. BUSH AL GORE...
...your own terms. If Bush had mentioned the arrest months ago, perhaps buried deep in a speech about finding religion and giving up drinking, it would have lacked any eleventh-hour drama. But by avoiding it, the campaign made itself vulnerable. Whether it is calculating partisans or inquisitive local reporters, there's always someone in the final days of a presidential campaign who is more than happy to yell, "Surprise...