Word: iowan
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This political Elmer Gantry has been loose in the Iowa cornfields for weeks, making his speech after Forbes finishes his on flat tax and fortitude. Grubbs, an Iowan, is an example of the modern Iowa, which has become big-part yuppie, little-part farmers and small towners. But for all its struggle to be like California and Connecticut, most of Iowa's area remains farmland, and the crops underlie the economy. The biggest political pretenders must at some time or another take off their suit coats and go to the land where strange things can happen...
...king and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, an Iowan born and an anthropologist by trade, is known for his lecture in Anthropology 105: "Food and Culture." He recently sat down to share his thoughts on McDonald'sTM, China and Seinfeld, and provide a little food for thought...
...undergraduate was at University of Iowa. I'm a native Iowan, so naturally I went to my state university. This was during the bad days of the Cold War and those days there were very few Americans who know Chinese (at least there were very few American students going through school who knew Chinese and there was a big demand) so U of I in those days started a Chinese language program...
...IOWAN BOB SHARP, A CAUCUS PRECINCT leader, worked 16 hours one day last week at the Union Pacific railroad so he could take a day off to go hear Forbes speak. "I've seen him on TV; now I wanted to meet him in person," says Sharp. "He's got some interesting ideas. I don't know whether he can transform them into action. People are taking a hard look at him now. Someone in my precinct said he's the Ross Perot within the Republican Party...
Learning Italian-Iowan accent for Bridges of Madison County flick...