Word: home-grown
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...from the flash and golden glamour that glint off U.S. Alpine skiers, figure skaters and hockey players, another breed of home-grown Olympians will drive themselves beyond reason in strange and dangerous events without so much as a pat on the back or, for most, even a faint hope of gold, silver or bronze medals. U.S. athletes in the "minor" winter sports of biathlon, Nordic skiing, bobsled, luge and ski jumping have won only one silver and one bronze since 1956. But despite archaic equipment, meager training and, in most cases, pitifully small funding, they persist against the lavishly bestowed...
Many thoughtful Africans believe that, given time, some sort of home-grown democratic system will take root, although few are able to describe what form it will take. In Africa, as everywhere, economic growth requires a stable political environment...
Although wood in many areas has the virtue of being cheap, home-grown and renewable, its use as fuel exacts a terrible toll. In such cities as Denver, Portland, Ore., and Missoula, more than half the minute solids in the winter air, so-called particulates, may stem from wood burning. Geography compounds the problem when there are atmospheric inversions; in mountain-rimmed Missoula last week, low-lying cold air was trapped under a smothering blanket of warmer air, preventing the escape of particulates...
...president's second project is more home-grown. Dipping into a general Corporation discretionary fund. Bok instituted a program for three mid-career Black South African students which allow them to spend a year studying at Harvard. Also in the fourth year, this in-house Harvard arrangement, which is administered by Cabot Professor of English Alan Heimert, costs the University approximately $25,000 per student each year...
SEVERAL COMPLAINTS the major label panel faced centered on the New York establishment's ready acceptance of English bands to the disadvantage of home-grown talent. "New York clubs almost exclusively book the English bands," complained Surrette, although Boys Life will be playing the Peppermint Lounge and the Ritz soon. Dick Wingate, Epic Records, explained: "English bands generally record their record in England. We have a finished record to listen to. That's different from listening to an American band at 2 o'clock in the morning at CBGB...