Word: midwest
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...control events of nature have been visiting regularly for a few years now, of course. Think - to pick an example almost at random - of the summer of 1993, when rain poured down biblically for weeks and the Mississippi overflowed to become a vast, shallow brown ocean and submerged the Midwest's farms like an agricultural Atlantis. The entire country steamed like Bangkok; power systems died trying to satisfy the air conditioners' demands; old people keeled over in the doomy heat...
...going on the offensive in the parts of the country where he's trailing or to defend the parts where he's doing well. The March 7 vote includes most of New England, where the ex-senator has some of his strongest support, and a large chunk of the Midwest, a Gore stronghold. Based on Iowa and New Hampshire, the Bradley camp will have to decide whether their man should spend his scarce time shaking hands in Rhode Island and Massachusetts or making up ground by kissing babies in Ohio and Missouri...
...team lost 3-2 in the first round of the 16-team draw to a New York City based club team and then fell to a Midwest-based club team 3-2 in the finals of a consolation draw...