Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this night, it was about 11 as I made my way back to San Francisco, my hometown. The new speed limits were 65 mph, and I coasted along in one of the middle lanes at a comfortable 70 clip...
While the men's 100 has a global feel to it, the women's dash could be a hometown celebration for pre-race favorite Gwen Torrence, who grew up in nearby Decatur, Georgia, and lives in Livonia. "God sent [the Olympics] here to make up for what happened to me in 1992," Torrence has said, referring to the Barcelona 100, when she finished fourth and then accused two of the three medalists of drug use. All three of those medalists--Devers, Juliet Cuthbert of Jamaica and Irina Privalova of Russia--will be back, which should make for some interesting stares...
UNVEILED. Statue of the late ARTHUR ASHE, tennis and equal-rights champion; in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. After much controversy, the bronze statue was finally placed on Monument Avenue, a city street that had honored only Confederate heroes...
...hometown crowd at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, reacted even before Vice President Al Gore announced which of three hotly competitive designs had been chosen as the space shuttle of the future. Lockheed Martin's VentureStar, which would be built in nearby Palmdale, looks like no other spacecraft, and when Gore reached for a model airship shaped like a giant piece of pie, the group burst into applause. Undaunted, the Vice President plunged on with his scripted gag, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the importance of this moment...
...against Saddam Hussein in the latest attempt to overthrow the Iraqi leader since the end of the Gulf War. Iraqi dissidents said all the suspects are Sunni Muslims -- a group commonly considered to be Hussein's main base of power -- and included several trusted officers from Tikrit, Hussein's hometown. Last week, in possibly another planned attack, a former head of army intelligence claimed that several Republican Guard officers were charged with planning to assassinate Saddam and his two sons. The general, Wafiq al-Samarra'i, told the Arab media that Hussein responded by reorganizing the elite force that protects...