Word: homegrown
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...league has successfully groomed a number of homegrown stars who have jumped ship to Europe when their careers took off. When will the league reach the point at which players view it not as a stepping stone, but as a place to play for the duration of their careers...
...Besides fabric, the store's best buys include stylishly packaged homegrown coffee, tea and chocolate; fashionable Mustika Ratu spa products; and high-end jewelry from notable designers like Meike Sahala Hutabarat and Delia Von Rueti, whose fantastical one-of-a-kind creations incorporate materials from coral to sheepskin and snakeskin. In the well-stocked CD section you'll find everything from Javanese classical works and progressive-house compilations from the city's top DJs to the albums of Jakarta-born pianist Ananda Sukarlan, famed for compositions based on gamelan and folk music. Get them to go in handbags made from...
Forget the third time's a charm thing. Barack Obama is probably just hoping there won't be a fourth. After New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg both withdrew their nominations as Commerce Secretary (Richardson for a homegrown corruption investigation and Gregg because of disagreements with Obama's fiscal strategy), Obama apparently decided to go with someone as straitlaced as they come. Gary Locke, former two-term governor of Washington and the nation's first Chinese American to head a state, was formally announced today as the Administration's next pick for Commerce. His many...
...that is usually expert at making Britons of Goody's class feel out of place. At the end of her life, though, Goody, bald and frail, has most definitely arrived. Shetty confided in her blog that a "shoot in Kuala Lampur" (sic) prevents her attendance at the ceremony, but homegrown celebrities are expected to turn out in force to honor Goody, including the megasuccessful pop group Girls Aloud, originally brought together by a TV talent show...
...country's dominant service provider, China Mobile, which boasts a whopping 75% of the subscriber market. China Mobile has tried to get a jump on 3G by handing out free handsets to some 800,000 subscribers beginning last April as part of a trial rollout of the homegrown platform. But the service was plagued by complaints of dropped calls and poor reception, boding ill for its chances of competing against established, reliable standards operated by its two smaller rivals, China Unicom and China Telecom. BDA projects China Mobile's share of subscribers will plunge by 9% over the next four...