Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duritz said he feared the coming of Starbucks would usher in the demise of Central Square's local flair and homegrown businesses. The square has recently been the site of controversy between developers seeking to erect new office complexes, and merchants and activists who fear the flurry of activity will lead to rising rents...
Longer-range, the worries for the U.S. economy are more global than homegrown. Japan is the major world trouble spot. Since 1990, it has suffered from sluggish output growth, a stock-market depression and a credit crunch. Now chaos in Southeast Asia endangers Japan's exports and loans to the area. Japanese investors, desperate to raise cash, might someday dump holdings of American securities; that would knock down stock and bond prices and shoot up U.S. interest rates. Weinberg sees a 1-in-100, but rising, chance of that happening--but contrasts that with a 1-in-1 million risk...
...hope that Soros' largesse will shame some of our homegrown billionaires into opening their own overstuffed pockets and giving something back to the country that has given them so much! DIANE F. SMITH Denver...
Everything uncovered thus far supports the conviction that has been building among scholars during the past 20 years that the Nubians were not just vassals and trading partners of the Egyptian Pharaohs but also the creators of an ancient and impressive civilization of their own, with a homegrown culture that may have been the most complex and cosmopolitan in all Africa...
...BUSINESS Talk about a young and vibrant economy. Nearly three-quarters of the nation's 9 million companies are no more than a quarter-century old. But let's not ignore the hardy perennials. Longfellow's Wayside Inn, founded in the early 1700s and probably the oldest homegrown business, still welcomes guests in Sudbury, Mass. Below, a durable-biz list...