Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, that he had visited the site. Indeed, as more details emerge, April 19--the date of last week's bombing and the anniversary of the apocalyptic fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco-has only gained in infamy, intricately bound as it is to the mythologies of homegrown zealots like McVeigh...
Amis sees the squabble as a peculiarly homegrown phenomenon. "There is very much a feeling in England that if you get a huge amount of money, then you can damn well put up with anything else that happens to you," he said in an interview with Time. The outcry against him, Amis added, "contained a strong element of old-fashioned anti-Americanism. I had an American agent, an American dentist, an American girlfriend. All those anti-American feelings that you thought had evaporated years ago re-emerged...
...experience a few years ago, when our own brand of high-rolling financial experts" took much of the savings and loan system for a ride. We taxpayers had to come up with an estimated $500 billion to cover those losses. And if Leeson suffers the same fate as our homegrown speculators, he will end up in a nice, cushy job, living the good life. Frank Jerome Columbus, Indiana BARINGS' COLLAPSE CANNOT BE BLAMED solely on derivatives. A system that permits a trader any access, however limited, to the back-office process (settlement, accounting, mark to market) is a blueprint...
...England may be presented in New York next season--American goods imported from Britain--and it deserves to be. Meanwhile, during the remainder of this Broadway season, things may be looking up slightly for homegrown products. From now until the May 3 cutoff for Tony nominations, at least six new plays are planned, including yet another by McNally. Still, opening-night mortality rates being what they are, theater pros know better than to predict a resurgence of plays on Broadway. "Two or three," says Jujamcyn Theaters president Rocco Landesman, "would be an avalanche...
This year's contest had much of that homegrown intimacy, a family gathering where old hands reminisce and look over the crop of new talent. A saucy 17-year-old, Nicole Bobek, was crowned ladies champion; Todd Eldredge, 23, the top male skater. Their victories should give them a toehold on a brilliant future. At least that's the way it used...