Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result could be as peaceful as the Civil Rights Resolution that happened in my hometown of Richmond, Va., 20 years ago, or as comparitively peaceful as the settlement that created Zimbabwe in 1980. All that is needed is for the white society to give up trying to maintain a doomed social order...
...need to diversify contractors, to ensure competition, and thus to enhance quality. This may very well be true: but Sen. Kennedy's labeling of this switch to GE as a "great victory for the American taxpayer" should be seen for what it is--an unabashed play for hometown votes. Senators and representatives necessarily operate under certain restrictions, and one of these has always been constituent pressure. Tip O'Neill, Alan Cranston, and Edward Kennedy are no exceptions to this rule. When defense "pork barrels" look as if they might roll their way, these politicos have never been averse...
...added that he relied on "an articulate and witty manner" in answering the questions that were put to him in the short yet intensive interviews conducted in his hometown...
...right guard, Steinkuhler, is the quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
...player in the nation, picked up their diplomas. And two talented centers who would be juniors this year aren't back, either: Scott Fusco is playing, with brother Mark, for the U.S. Olympic team, and Greg Chalmers is spending a year working in a hospital in Edmonton, near his hometown...