Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kiichi Miyazawa was playing to the hometown crowd when he told the Japanese parliament last week that American workers are lazy, greedy and lack a work ethic. Insulting as the Prime Minister's comments were, they were not the worst thing that Japanese politicians have said about Americans in the past few weeks. No wonder Americans are wounded. It isn't just that the Japanese view of U.S. workers is degrading, it's that it is wrong -- and woefully out of date...
...down, and one side is still fighting the other. The opponents the athletes will face are the same as ever: the climate, the crowd, the knot in the stomach. Even the rule makers: one of the most eagerly awaited contests this year will pit France's ice-dancing Duchesnays -- hometown favorites -- against the limiting regulations of their sport. But that, in a sense, is what the Olympics have always been about: not rules, really, but exceptions...
...editors who gathered around the city desk at the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, Clinton's hometown paper, had a sense of deja vu. Says managing editor John Starr: "We knew about allegations since October 1990, but we ignored them. We did, the other paper did, the TV stations did. Now here are tapes indicating that this woman has been speaking with the Governor in a way no married man should permit another woman to talk with him on the telephone." So the paper put a dozen reporters on the story. That bore fruit within hours: a story poking holes in Flowers...
Weiland, in fact, convinced Smith to start coaching. After graduation from Harvard, Smith served as an assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for a year, and then, after a brief hiatus from athletics, returned to coaching at his hometown high school in Gloucester...
...weakest colleges, however, intelligent cutting will not suffice. "Some colleges will either have to consolidate or shut down," says Sara Melendez, who until recently served as vice provost and dean of arts and humanities at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. The school, hard hit by the deterioration of its hometown, has been struggling to stave off its own demise. Late last year it began negotiations for an emergency loan of $2 million to $3 million in order to keep operating. Administrators now believe that the school can survive only by merging with nearby Sacred Heart University, though the law school...