Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to make it a homegrown effort," said Coordinator of Production Services Barry B. Mecquire, studio engineer for the project...
...president's second project is more homegrown. 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...
...Japanese join the country's political parties, while candidates often wear white gloves to show that their hands are clean of corruption. Although the country has trappings familiar to any Western democracy?a constitution, a parliament, a Cabinet and a Prime Minister?Japan's political practices are definitely homegrown...
Chicago, a city not overrun with heroes, is embracing a new candidate, a long-ball hitter named Ronald Dale Kittle, who has been stunning the American League. He is close to homegrown, coming from 25 miles away in Gary, Ind., where his father is an ironworker. After failing with the Los Angeles Dodgers at 20, the son also walked the skeletons of buildings for a while. Kittle is constructed on the order of a building: long lines and sharp angles, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, a look of granite. He is like Chicago...
...Soviets have been only too eager to do so, expertly exploiting the homegrown angst and ambivalence in Europe. Much of the neutralism and anti-Americanism have been concentrated among the younger generation. Unlike their elders, they have no personal recollection of Americans as liberators of Western Europe or of Soviets as occupiers of Eastern Europe. Many of them have grown up taking their freedom, their prosperity and their American-backed security for granted...