Word: iowa
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...Grassley continued to call for a specialized form in the statement and his spokeswoman, Jill Gerber, said the Iowa senator has also still not ruled out the possibility of trying to mandate a 5-percent level of endowment payout...
What's the difference between American and British humor? Katie Ver Steeg CARLISLE, IOWA...
...Iowa Joyce Carle, 65, of Des Moines retired from the U.S. Postal Service after 25 years. But when the Paulson proposal came up, she immediately wrote a letter to the local paper to voice her opposition. "A $700 billion bailout I feel is going to my grandchildren. They're going to inherit that. I don't think it's going to solve the problem. It may fix it for a while. I don't trust the government to do what they say they're going to do." She says, "I'm no genius [but] it's basically a mortgage crisis...
...already have enough volunteering available in America. How then can you explain the fact that there are more than 3 applicants for every available AmeriCorps slot, or that Teach For America had 24,718 applicants for 3,700 positions? You can bet the residents of the Gulf Coast, Davenport, Iowa and other regions hit by national disaster wish there were more AmeriCorps members to fill the gaps left by the private sector, and FEMA, in response to natural disasters. However, the crux of Robinson’s argument seems to be that the purpose of “nationalistic?...
...happening on the ground. Early on, I learned to base my reactions on what I see on the ground, because that to me is a more accurate reflection - even, as it turned out, in the primary. If you read the papers, you wouldn't have predicted the outcome of Iowa. But if you were in Iowa, you could feel the clear possibility of what the outcome would...