Word: hometown
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...customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins on the Fourth of July. Her spheroid: a vibrantly colored, vinyl-covered ball with Cezanne's signature on it that the museum is selling for an impressive...
...consequences of inadequate public investment are all too apparent in the economic and physical decay that has eaten away at many of America's largest urban areas. It is not surprising that a city like my hometown of Detroit has suffered greatly due to the poor maintenance of its already deficient infrastructure and the lack of any strong ties with its wealthy suburbs (although Detroit's decay can be attributed to many other factors as well). Although Boston will never degrade to the extent that Detroit has, improvement projects like the Big Dig will ensure that Boston remains a vibrant...
...Americans. Marketing savvy has served Bubka well, establishing him not only as a man of the world record, but also as a man of the world, who maintains for his family a pied-a-terre in Berlin, a condo in Monaco and an apartment in his hometown of Donetsk...
...recent annual survey of the best places to live in the United States confirmed this view of my hometown--for the most part. San Diego ranked 16th, markedly up from last year. Its weather rating, as it always...
...reputation is not limited to this continent alone. On a visit to his family's hometown in southern India seven years ago, he was mobbed by throngs of elementary school students wanting his autograph. "It was cute," he says...