Word: midlands
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...placed his re-election in the hands of people he used to despise. When Bush was running for president, he rarely concealed his disdain for the sharpies of Wall Street, the financiers who made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing his dim view of Wall Street...
...Mathis-Lilley was the _____ of Midland High School in Midland, Mich...
...strangest thing about it is, we've been here before. It all started with a little-known Oxford professor whose specialty was the West Midland dialect of Middle English. Beginning with The Hobbit, a story he invented in the early 1930s to amuse his children, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's novels first became merely popular and then turned into a phenomenon. When a pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late...
...place from which to drive economic policy. What would give him sway among elites, Wall Street and the media is the one thing Evans will not leverage: his friendship with the President. On the phone with Bush as many as three times a day, the longtime pal from the Midland, Texas, years has enormous influence. "He's just not forceful about taking this role," says a senior White House aide. Recently he helped convince Bush that the political timing was not right to embrace stimulative tax cuts for investors...
...place from which to drive economic policy. What would give him sway among elites, Wall Street and the media is the one thing Evans will not leverage: his friendship with the President. On the phone with Bush as many as three times a day, the longtime pal from the Midland, Texas, years has enormous influence. "He's just not forceful about taking this role," says a senior White House aide. Recently he helped convince Bush that the political timing was not right to embrace stimulative tax cuts for investors...