Word: heartlanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Plains (1989), though, Frazier wrote his insights down and produced an elegaic history of the vast, flat American heartland. He turns more serious still in Family (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 386 pages; $23), in which the subject is nothing less than a search for the meaning of life, for "a meaning that would defeat death." And he is not kidding...
...Washington team struggled, Clinton took a positive message to the heartland. Campaigning in Cleveland, Ohio, he announced today that the fiscal '94 federal budget deficit shrank to $203 billion -- much lower than the $220 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts -- and predicted it would fall again in 1995. Clinton crowed about the fact that the deficit is down for two years in a row for the first time in two decades and said a further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy...
...things (at least once). Kinsey's methods may have been less than perfect, but he had an eye for the quirky, the fringe, the bizarre. The new report, by contrast, is a remarkably conservative document. It puts the fringe on the fringe and concentrates on the heartland: where life, apparently, is ruled by marriage, monogamy and the missionary position. The irony is that the report Jesse Helms worked so hard to stop has arrived at a conclusion that should make him proud. And it may even make the rest of us a bit less anxious about what's going...
...They want to ignore those people in the heartland who also happen to be their parents," he said...
When Bill Clinton's campaign for President was faltering, a bus tour into America's heartland helped lift him into a lead he never relinquished. Last Friday, with the success of her husband's presidency at stake, Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off another bus tour, this one designed to rescue the Administration's campaign to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. Before a sweltering crowd packed into a plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon, the First Lady called on Congress to "do the right thing" by voting for a bill that satisfies the White House's primary goal: guaranteed health insurance...