Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their vacations this year," says Merrett Stierheim, president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. In mid-March his bureau unveiled the first in a series of advertisements for a $2 million year-long campaign designed to show off the city's colorful Caribbean culture. In one spot, hometown singer Gloria Estefan coos to her parrot, "We just love coming home to Miami, don't we Coco...
Born in 1940 in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, Majid began his career in the Baath Party's internal-security branch, whimsically called the Instrument of Yearning. Its reputation for rough torture made it the most feared organization in Iraq. Grateful for Majid's help in ridding him of Baathist rivals, Saddam made him Minister of Municipalities. But his real job was to be Saddam's No. 1 enforcer...
This is not an easy way out. I am not altogether happy in concluding that if my hometown were invaded and enemy soldiers were patrolling my streets, I would not want Washington to enlist every available resource in the fight for liberty and country. But this is the price we pay to protect that liberty, and the cost of preserving the values of our country...
...Lokar would wear his school's jersey. Last Wednesday he quit the team and dropped out of school. "I have received many threats, directed both toward me and my wife Lara, so that our life has become very difficult here," he explained. "We have decided to return to our hometown, Trieste...
...tricky. Energy politics don't divide along party lines. When the time comes to vote, liberal Democrats from oil-patch states, like Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, tend to line up with the petroleum industry. Detroit Democrats like Congressman Dingell back away from fuel-efficiency standards that are opposed by hometown automakers. And defenders of the environment can still turn up on both sides of the aisle. On Aug. 4, two days after the invasion of Kuwait, the House voted 281 to 82 effectively to ban for one year any drilling for natural gas along North Carolina's Outer Banks...