Word: hometown
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Moore's resentment of downsizing policies is a result of the devastation his hometown of Flint, Michigan suffered when the original General Motors factory closed its doors and destroyed the town's employment base. This was the subject of his first film, "Roger & Me," which he made without previous filmmaking experience, and Flint continues to be a point of reference in his discourse on the working class...
...Southern Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Writer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 313 Main Street, Lake Village 71653. Tel.: 501-265-2314 Tolliver's candidacy is somewhat quixotic. A young African-American writer, he is running against a two-term incumbent in a 72% white district that includes Bill Clinton's hometown. With a "black agenda" that criticizes "white men who don't know anything" for writing laws that unjustly send black men to prison, Tolliver might not have a prayer. Nevertheless, he's running to make a better life for the "common folk" and believes a balanced-budget amendment...
...Salina mayor Divine now works as the local government-marketing executive for IBM. Concerned that the changing job market demands new skills that many in his agricultural district may lack, he says he'll promote job training via school/business partnerships. But Democrat Divine runs uphill in Bob Dole's hometown district, where Clinton placed third in 1992, behind Bush and Perot...
...pretty exciting because it was a hometown team for me," Prestifilippo said...
...falters, we should not amplify their mistake so that it echoes for years to come. That probably means never watching FOX and certainly means telling our newspapers that we won't tolerate this kind of cheap and dirty journalism. Whether on this campus or back in our hometown, we can prevent the freedom of information, one of our greatest assets, from becoming our greatest liability...