Word: hometowner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WorldCom employee, Cooper had never intended to go public (a member of Congress had released her internal audit memos to the press), and the drama she was watching from the inside was the downfall of a hometown company she loved...
...celebration after Romano Prodi's center-left government lost a decisive confidence vote, sealing its collapse. When two members of the National Alliance party popped bottles of spumante and waved slices of mortadella to mock Prodi - nicknamed "Mortadella" for his presumed resemblance to the pink sausage popular in his hometown of Bologna - the white-haired, pipe-smoking Senate President pounded his gavel and ordered Senate guards to immediately remove the victuals. "This isn't a tavern here!" he barked...
...hand, staring into the crush of people ahead of him. The 27-year-old has spent the past year hard at work in a cosmetics factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get back home for the holidays. The trip to his hometown outside the central city of Suzhou takes more than 20 hours - if he can board. Around him, hundreds of people push towards an opening in the barrier surrounding the station. A police officer standing behind a fence shouts into a megaphone, calling for order. "I haven't made any money here...
...organized societies, expats, or golf clubs. Elsewhere in London, pubs are throwing haggis buffets, Ceilidh dances are sold out, and traditional formal suppers are spreading over the calendar. As singer and TV presenter Fiona Kennedy points out in her after-haggis speech at the Caledonian Club, back in her hometown of Aberdeen, Burns Night now stretches over so many days that it's referred to as Ramadram...
...lashed out at those who "feel there are two different types of people: human beings and women." The team went to the 1980 Super Bowl, losing to Pittsburgh. In 1995, Frontiere enraged fans in California, where the Rams had been based for 50 years, by moving them to her hometown of St. Louis, Mo. The team went on to win the 2000 Super Bowl...