Word: hometown
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...Bulgaria, at the invitation of his "European economic adviser," Svetoslav Stoilov, a friend whose qualifications include working as a magician's assistant at home in Bulgaria, as a circus technician in Czechoslovakia and as a dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across, he restated this theory...
...mother, President Clinton invited his brother Roger to the White House for Christmas. For months, Clinton has urged Roger to marry his pregnant girlfriend Molly Martin, and to placate him Roger showed up with a marriage license, blood test and a wedding date -- Dec. 27 in Dallas (Molly's hometown). But then Roger wanted to fly back to Arkansas with his girlfriend on Air Force One. The wedding is now planned for next week -- or it may be put off again...
...trouble began in 1984, with a case involving a nativity scene the size of a large shoe box in my hometown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Changing the previous standard, the court ruled that the scene, displayed on village land, was permissible, but only if the village also erected a large sign disavowing any governmental sponsorship of the display...
...Detroit gave Eaton's succession at Chrysler much chance at all. A career GM man, he had spent his recent years in Europe, well away from the turmoil and strife that had gripped his industry's hometown. He was something of a shotgun compromise in Chrysler's boardroom showdown between Iacocca and president Bob Lutz, and in the view of some skeptics, mainly lucked out in grabbing the prize after all the hard work had been done. Eaton arrived alone, brought in none of his deputies (not even his secretary) and fired no one. In Chrysler's recent history...
Still, Escobar has haunted Colombia ever since he escaped in July 1992 from his farcical incarceration near his hometown of Envigado, in a custom-built prison complete with king-size bed, private bath and Jacuzzi. Over the next year, he succeeded dozens of times in eluding the 1,500-man Search Block unit that pursued him by moving clandestinely among his supporters in Medellin and the surrounding countryside. His hiding places included secret rooms carved out between walls, under stairs and underground. Often he cloaked himself in artful guises, dressing as a woman or riding in coffins as a corpse...