Word: heartlanders
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Sounding like the "new" Democrat he portrayed himself as on the campaign trail, President Clinton today launched his welfare-reform program by extolling work and the traditional family. He chose a heartland site, Kansas City, Missouri, to lay out his $9.3 billion plan's major component: a back-to-work scheme limiting welfare moms to two years on the dole. Republicans predictably fired back by calling the plan a big-spending initiative...
...destruction of Hitler's last reserves in the Battle of the Bulge flung open the door to the German heartland, just as Eisenhower had planned. "The war was won before the Rhine was crossed," he said later. But his strategic arguments were not over. Churchill was suspicious of the Russians and detected the first signs of the coming cold war. He told Eisenhower it was important to capture Berlin, to symbolize the Allied role in victory over Germany and to counter the strength of the Soviet Union. Eisenhower felt the city no longer held any military significance. He told Montgomery...
Norville Barnes is an egregiously stupid heartland boy hoping to land a job in the Big Apple, but the only place the requires no experience is Hudsucker (bloodsucker) Industries. No sooner does he start work in the mail room than panic is visited upon the board of directors. Hudsucker's CEO and chief stockholder kills himself from 44 floors up, leaving his half share of Hudsucker stock for sale and possible public ownership. De facto chairman Sydney Mussberger (Paul Newman) moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself...
...Heartland Association: Now that the HA's fine student-athletes meet the restrictions of Proposition 48 ("Farming 101") being no longer mandatory for credit), fans of teams like the Nebraska A&I Scythes and the North Dakota Polytechnic Reapers can cheer their point guards and big men towards an NCAA automatic berth...
Even in the heartland of "traditional" democracy, the United States of America, there are whiffs of disenchantment. The "populism" surging through American politics these days has a certain antidemocratic flavor. Or, at least, it reflects a resentment of democratic institutions and procedures. "Washington" and politicians have replaced "Wall Street" and rich businessmen as populism's favorite targets. The favorite populist remedies -- congressional term limits, a balanced-budget amendment -- would be new constraints on democracy. And, like earlier versions, today's populism hungers for a strong leader on a white horse. Thus Ross Perot, America's would-be Fujimori...