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Charismatic figures are universal, but Jones's intensely American origins and the genesis of his philosophy are unique. His very name seems to speak of the American normalcy of his background: Jones, your neighbor, the guy at the plant. He was born in Indiana, the heart of the heartland. Far from the seaboards, with their cosmopolitan outlooks and their receptiveness to foreign ideas, the midwest would seem the most inhospitable place for some "strange cult" to take root...
...evenings, Pretoria looks a great deal like Washington, D.C. A few tall buildings in the center of the city house South Africa's civil service, Pretoria's major industry. The Voortrekker Monument an enormous memorial to the Afrikaaners who walked from the coast into South Africa's heartland in the 1830s, stands over Pretoria just as the Washington monument watches over Washington. Around the city, white residential areas look just like Washington's suburbs: neat houses with well-tended gardens look out over beautifully laid-out streets lined with graceful jacaranda trees...
...firms. Indeed, André Scaillet, chief money trader in Europe for First National Bank of Chicago, said before last week's rescue that American businessmen "are frequently more bearish on the dollar than the Europeans." Moreover, the selling had spread from U.S.-based multinationals to ordinary companies in the American heartland. In most cases, however, the selling was self-protective rather than speculative in the true sense; if a manufacturer in Illinois bought steel from a German mill, it had a strong motive to sell dollars and buy marks immediately to settle the bill, rather than wait until the steel...
...American heartland. Says Scaillet: "Ten or 15 years ago, American businessmen were so proud to have the dollar. If you talked about the possibility of a depreciating buck, they would laugh in your face. Now they are frequently more bearish on the dollar than the Europeans...
Philadelphia--home of the Liberty Bell and the Wharton School of Finance--has fostered women's lacrosse for many moons, gaining the reputation as the breeding ground and heartland for the graceful and fastgrowing sport...