Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush did not view reducing carbon emissions as a priority; he did endorse clean coal technologies, although these do not have much effect on carbon dioxide. Bush spoke mainly of a different approach to enforcing environmental regulations and establishing national monuments, one that would take greater account of local and industry concerns...
Perhaps many of you don't understand how much losing to FSU pains the soul. If I can draw an analogy to local baseball, Boston's "Yankees Suck" is our "FSU Sucks." And yes, we also make bumper stickers and shirts to advertise the truth...
...Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well, pushing for stricter enforcement of current laws and returning again to his mantra of local control, implicating Gore as the defender of big, intrusive government...
...past, but with U.S. intelligence personnel guiding Yasser Arafat?s security forces in a crackdown on Hamas, it?s far from inconceivable that this policy would change. But there are a number of other Islamist terror organizations in the region, such as Egypt?s Islamic Jihad, that have both local grievances with the U.S. and the proven capacity to operate beyond their home ground, as well as sharing the generalized hostility to attempts to persuade Arafat to sign away Palestinian claims on East Jerusalem...
...town. But as word spread that Israelis had been captured, a raging mob of up to 1,000 Palestinians converged on the station, brushed past Arafat?s officers and beat the Israelis to death. The salient point is that when confronted by an angry Palestinian mob, the local police were incapable of restraining them - although they fired into the air in vain hope of dispersing the mob, once forced to choose between killing fellow Palestinians or allowing Israeli captives to die, the requirements of the peace process came a poor second for Arafat?s police. It?s a sign that...