Word: hometowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Assembly, still dominated by the KMT. The government heeded the second demand--but only partially. It agreed to hold elections in December 1978 to fill 59 of the assembly's more than 1400 seats and allowed just two weeks for campaigning. Lu ran as an independent from her hometown of Taoyuan, an electronics center west of Taipei. During her short campaign, she advocated three rights for her fellow native Taiwanese: the right to know, the right to free speech, and the right to have a voice in their future...
...second semester advances and midterms approach, approximately 6400 of us drag ourselves to classes with looks of chagrin, determination, or genuine interest--depending on the time of day. Winter reading period fades away, vacation never existed. The piquant awareness of our hometown mailman and the next door neighbor's child subsides as we decide which course to take for a fifth course and which to take pass/fail...
...full Harvard hockey career will give Lau a grand total of 14 seasons in the game. "I'm an old man," he exclaims at the thought, "I'm catching up to Gordie Howe!" But in his hometown of St. Paul, where hockey is the state religion, growing up on skates was not unusual...
Barnard's basketball team isn't taking advantage of one of its greatest natural resources, the training grounds of New York's inner-city hoop courts, and it showed last night, when the Crimson women drubbed the Lions 74-29 in front of a lively hometown crowd...
...powerful line-up of columbia grapplers drew strength from a noisy hometown crowd yesterday afternoon in New York City and handed the visiting Crimson squad a 25-17 thrashing and their first loss of 9-1-1 season...