Word: heartlanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from West Virginia to St. Louis, Missouri, the world's No. 3 automaker--after General Motors and Ford--has quietly become America's fastest growing automaker. Amid the rich corn, wheat and soybean fields, Toyota is building a vast industrial empire in the center of America's heartland, with I-64 as the hub for some $8 billion of North American investments. By 2000 Toyota hopes the public will view the company as the fourth member of the Big Three automotive family--though Detroit has no intention of extending a membership invitation. Vows Toyota president Hiroshi Okuda: "We will...
Still, a bittersweet humor persists in the heartland, even in towns that have known hardship, like Harvard. Williamson, the principal, was born in Oxford, Neb., and has lived throughout the state. "I tell people I was born in Oxford and educated at Harvard," he says, chuckling. "That's one for the books...
Still, a bittersweet humor persists in the heartland, even in towns that have known hardship, like Harvard. Willamson, the principal, was born in Oxford, Neb., and has lived throughout the state. "I tell people I was born in Oxford and educated at Harvard," he says, chunkling. "That's one for the books...
...DIEGO (AP)--Offering himself as a "bridge to a time of tranquility," Bob Dole accepted the GOP presidential nomination last night vowing to restore heartland values of faith and trust to a White House he called captive to elitists "who never sacrificed, never suffered...
...funds, says her agency has received 13,000 separate contributions from around the country. "People held car washes, people sold T shirts,'' she says. "A group in California staged the musical Oklahoma! and sent the proceeds." Every Friday representatives of more than 40 charitable organizations and agencies--including Project Heartland, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, churches and civic groups--meet to consider how best to manage the funds and address individual cases. Agencies pooled money, for example, to buy a specially equipped van for Susan Walton, 45, whose legs were crushed. Some $6 million has been set aside...