Word: homegrown
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...beat that prevails in Russia too, and the beat that unites. "Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you feel the energy," says Ivan Salmaxov, 22, who organizes "rave parties" in Moscow, where rappers from as far away as Minsk and St. Petersburg can dance, check out homegrown talent like MC Pavlov and listen to such heated songs as Bad Balance's Children of Satan, about growing street violence. Says Bad Balance lead singer Chill Will: "People like rap because they can dance and listen to new information at the same time...
...debatable sex appeal can sell with all the pizazz of a Vanna White. Developed by Go*USA, a tourism-industry trade group, the commercial features none other than President George Bush promoting the U.S. as a vacation paradise. Over images of rolling lawns and sandy beaches, Bush touts Hawaii, homegrown Dixieland jazz and, in an endearingly shameless display of personal preference, the wonders of Maine and Texas...
Robb's ultimate goal is to hang a WHITES ONLY sign at America's borders. He fears his race will soon disappear beneath a tide of nonwhite immigrants and homegrown minorities. It is a stance that appeals to poor, alienated whites, especially males, who feel they have been forgotten. While militant racists talk freely of conflict, even of race war, one thing the white-supremacist movement agrees on is the preferred color of this nation. "From my perspective, America is a white nation," Robb says...
Four years and $70 million in the making, the Globex system is a bid by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade to keep from losing yet another homegrown industry: futures trading. U.S. exchanges developed modern-day futures, including popular contracts based on Treasury bonds and the Eurodollar. By the late 1980s, however, copycat exchanges from Auckland to Zurich were able to establish their own futures markets by trading when Chicago was closed for the day. Last year the U.S. share of the worldwide futures business had slipped to about 50%, compared with more than...
...residents of the occupied territories at Israel's insistence, had first eagerly pledged their fealty to Arafat. Still, the so-called inside leaders expected to have some power in the process, in recognition of the steady growth of their influence since 1987, when the intifadeh broke out as a homegrown movement without P.L.O. prompting. But instead of regarding the insiders as partners, a prominent delegate complains, "Arafat is treating us like puppets...