Word: home-grown
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...international union has already poured $500,000 into the Harvard effort, which an AFSCME spokesman described as a "shoestring operation for the last couple of years." The funds will enable the home-grown union to hire more staff, increase one-on-one contact with workers, distribute leaflets, and do mailings, said Phillip Sparks,a spokesman for AFSCME in Washington...
...like the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners were apparently responsible for the September reign of terror. But not this time. Discovered in the Raspail Metro station near the scene of the murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside the main Renault factory...
...camouflage jacket and a Confederate "Forget hell!" hat who may well have been the Imperial Wizard, and another man who looked unnervingly like Charles Manson. When I wasn't choking on the fumes of the former's Camels, I was gagging in the acrid smoke of the latter's home-grown monstrosities...
...works the cleanup detail. Christina, 15, washes dishes, and Jennifer, 12, aids her mother Therese with the baking and cake decorating. "American children don't understand," says Hannah. "They don't know why I can't go to the beach." As a consequence, many immigrants' children look upon home-grown Americans only as casual friends...
...Before Mattingly, who was the last (non-pitcher) home-grown player to crack the Yankee starting lineup...