Word: home-grown
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Kitty, Preston, and the rest of the chorus stand sweating in the spotlight as the audience applauds. The curtain falls and everyone moves en masse--despite the home-grown quality of these aristos, they do everything in a foreign language--to the bar. People begin looking for the Right People...
...Eagles' arsenal features a frontline of home-grown talent labeled "the Boston three," composed of 6'6" leading scorer Carrington, Bill Collins, and Morrison. Despite its national ranking at the outset of the season in Sports Illustrated, B.C. has felled only two first-division teams in the course of the campaign, as its big time illusions have gone poof. B.C.'s fastbreak has been marred by sloppy ballhandling and the one-guard offense has yet to jell. After its most recent loss, an 88-70 drubbing by Villanova, one basketball pundit quipped, "B.C. opened a bakery to sell turnovers...
Fortunately, that does not seem likely. Gregory has indeed complained about what she (and others) consider to be poor treatment of home-grown talent. She has worried publicly that "Americans don't appreciate their own." But lately, Gregory has had little to kick about: A.B.T. mounted a new production of the full-length ballet Raymonda especially for her, gave her contractual rights to choose her roles, and scaled her pay up to levels comparable with those of guest performers, who sometimes get more than $2,000 a night. By all accounts, she really did leave A.B.T. for personal reasons...
Shero and his N.H.L. colleagues say they are not planning any special changes to combat the Russian style of play. They will rely instead on the strengths of home-grown hockey: better body checking and a generous supply of personal flair and determination. The Russians, despite-or because of-their rigid system, apparently envy those qualities. "We are very disappointed that Bobby Orr won't be playing," says one Soviet hockey official, speaking of the Boston Bruins' peerless but injured defenseman. "He is perhaps the greatest player of all time...
...mockery of his new strategy before it even begins. Early this year the government took over the ailing British Leyland Ltd.; by helping Chrysler now it would be competing with itself and, government officials fear, subsidizing overcapacity in the auto industry. The government has lately refused to aid some home-grown industries, notably the motorcycle business; bailing out the British subsidiary of a U.S.-based company would raise a storm of nationalistic objection...