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...paper, Pressler should be having an easy time. He has a dream resume that combines big-league prestige (Rhodes scholar, Harvard Law School graduate) and heartland values (Vietnam veteran, family farmer). He became chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee when the Republicans took over Congress, giving him bragging rights to this year's landmark telecommunications law and helping him raise as much as $5 million for his re-election bid. And he is running in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 49% to 41%. South Dakota hasn't given its three electoral votes to a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson...
...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...