Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come for a different purpose. They came to witness African National Congress Deputy Nelson Mandela's triumphant arrival in the city he yesterday called his second home. And although Mandela hails from half a world away, the city of Boston treated him as if he were a hometown hero...
Melba Lucy Montenegro was poor but ambitious. The 29-year-old mother of three dreamed of opening a bicycle factory in her hometown of Cali, Colombia. But when she asked several banks in the region for a loan, they refused her because she lacked collateral. Then she heard about a group called Women's World Banking, which agreed to guarantee up to 75% of any loan she received. With the group's backing, Montenegro found a bank that was willing to lend her $3,125. Eight years later, she owns three bicycle-repair shops and employs 18 people. "The world...
Similarly, Margaret H. Bean-Bayog '65, psychiatrist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, stayed at Harvard because the area was more progressive than her hometown...
Another reason Healy relished CUNY was that his job put him in the thick of things in his beloved hometown. He grew up as the eldest of four children in comfortable circumstances, mostly on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His Australian father had been a wildcat oilman in Texas until the 1929 Crash wiped him out. Later he fetched up as host of a Proctor & Gamble radio show, Captain Tim Healy's Stamp Club, on NBC. He had a short fuse and a robust disregard for social conventions and was a devout Catholic...
...Walser, who is from Baltimore, it was a perfect opportunity to give the hometown fans a taste of her normal late-game heroics, which she would repeat one month later in Princeton...