Word: home-grown
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...those advantaged juniors is Mike Kelly, a home-grown product from Watertown who prepped a year at Exeter (of which Curry is a candidate) before hitting the Ivy League. Kelly appears to harbor no butterflies about possibly starting because he has been "getting a lot of work lately" and has had a chance to throw to Curry, who should help out the quarterbacks considerably...
While many Presidents have brought home-grown cliques to Washington, Carter's is more narrowly based and larger than most. One count shows 51 Georgians on the White House staff, 18 at the Office of Management and Budget and another 100 scattered throughout the Executive Branch. Observes a Carter campaign associate of the Georgians: "They are a breed unto themselves, close-knit, playing all their cards close to the vest." At week's end, the closest card of all was still being played by Jimmy Carter, who had made no known move to resolve his most pressing personnel...
...Pacific," I find it unthinkable that Swedes would be racists by nature. The migrants from southern Europe and the Middle East who settled in Sweden are not resented because of their coloring. They are resented, even hated, for their way of living off welfare, for which the home-grown Swede is highly taxed. The people you refer to as irresponsible, riotous hooligans are merely young patriots who wish to keep Sweden Swedish, and for this they should not be rebuked. This is not being racist...
...1950s, North Carolina seemed to be exporting even more home-grown university talent than fine tobacco. Traditionally agrarian, the state had little to offer college graduates, who kept going north for better paying jobs. In 1959 a group of public-spirited North Carolinians came up with a solution: a "research park." Modeled after industrial parks-scientific companies were sought as tenants, rather than manufacturers-research centers flourished in the early '60s on the edges of the space race. But by 1965 many were faltering or had already failed, victims of an economic recession and a switch in priorities...