Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dumping Gov. Edward J. King, Bay State citizens showed their impatience with the numerous embezzlement and bribery scandals that have touched his administration, and with his homegrown "supply side" economic debacle that drew praise from President Reagan. By electing L. Scott Harshbarger '64 as Middlesex County District Attorney and Peter Vellucci as state representative over more traditional, long-term incumbents, local voters demonstrated their desire for new blood and a more creative approach to these offices. And, by giving the nod for the Republican gubernatorial nomination to John W. Sears '56, they showed good common sense, for Sears...
Channel 7 isn't the only station to be duped in hiring big-name free agents. In New York, the ABC affiliate, despite its number one rating, is dumping its two anchors in favor of snazzy Tom Snyder. The two departing anchors, Roseanne Scamardella and Ernie Anastos, are homegrown reporters, with strong local support. So rather than being dazzled by the coming of Snyder, New York viewers have inundated the station with calls of protest, and some emotional viewers have even picketed outside the station...
...Malaprop had been a politician, she would have felt right at home in the state legislature of Michigan. For the past eight years, reporters in Lansing have been collecting the most memorable utterances of the legislators, and their quotes would have done Malaprop proud. This homegrown version of Bartlett's now covers most of one wall in the capitol press room. Some show an appealing honesty. "Before I give you the benefit of my remarks," intoned one lawmaker, "I'd like to know what we're talking about." Others mangle metaphors. "From...
...truly welcome more competition, but it does keep us on our toes." In reality, U.S. exporters have little to complain about. Foreign investment in the export of American-grown crops is a well-established tradition. Indeed, among four of the largest merchants of American grain, only Cargill is entirely homegrown. Of the rest, Louis Dreyfus is French-owned, Bunge Corp. has Dutch and Argentine roots, and Continental, now an American company, was originally founded in Belgium...
...between expectations and performance (or, in Huntington's brushed-chrome lingo, between ideals and institutions, abbreviated as the "IvI gap") fuels our volatile periods of creedal passion. "The ideological challenge to American government thus comes not from abroad but from home, not from imported Marxist doctrines but from homegrown American idealism...