And just in case, he's also courting the good-old-boy vote in places like Macon, Georgia.
Jones displayed a startling recall for financial minutiae, even as he put on his best aw-shucks-good-ol'-boy-from-Arkansas act.
"I bet some of you probably remember ME just 'cause of my hair, " Richards opens the play, in a perfect good-'ol-boy accent.
The Aquino camp questions Mr Villar's poor-boy-made-good story and suggests that he is being covertly backed by Mrs Arroyo.
Arsenal, called after Woolwich Arsenal, has long been a top club, albeit one that is rooted in gritty inner London, where the legend of local-boy-made-good still resonates.
Many Democrats are convinced that he is a shoo-in for the vice-presidency: a working-class southern boy made good who balances Mr Kerry's patrician gravitas with a generous measure of charm.
Cole is a local good ol' boy, from whose close-knit family Lusa feels coldly excluded.
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In the Local Boy Makes Good version, fresh-startup-company Calxeda (pronounced Cal-Zayda) has a perfect launch, showing up for the first time in the public eye hand in hand with marquee-customer HP.
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Their definition of national interest and of how American military muscle should be applied in its pursuit does not sit easily with the prime minister's boy-scoutish enthusiasm for doing good deeds in a bad world.
Ten years later, just as Anna is about to marry a good-natured man (Danny Huston) who has patiently wooed her for years, a ten-year-old boy shows up and announces that he is Sean reborn.
He took only three minutes to settle the nerves around a noisy Stamford Bridge, taking advantage of good work by Valencia old boy Juan Mata to roll a left-foot finish beyond Diego Alves.
Proof, if any were needed, that the Princeton-educated engineer still sees himself as a local boy made good internationally.
The beats, by young comers like Hit-Boy and Kenoe, are taut and lively, a good match for Minaj's manic spirit and comic zingers -- and comic anti- zingers.
"Throughout his career, he represented everything that was good about North Carolina: a small town boy and UNC graduate who took a light-hearted approach to some of the attributes he grew up with and turned them into a spectacularly successful career, " she said.
The original teenage boy band put on a good show, but there was something disconcerting about the line-up of pensioners, some of whom bore witness to a misspent youth.
Perhaps he is neither, just an orphan who carries with him the picture of his handsome parents, killed in a car-crash near the pyramids when he was a boy, together with an abundance of good will which he showers on others.
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