Word: midwest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boys Choir just returned from a two and a half week tour of the Midwest and spent part of last year touring Japan...
...Bush didn't go to the Midwest to break news or dissect market dynamics or find common ground with Democrats - he went to take his new Congress for a spin. From his speech it was clear that the true centerpiece of his plan was in fact quite familiar. Remember those 10-year income tax rate reductions he got passed in 2001? Bush wants them all this year, retroactive to January 1. "Speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed up the pace of economic recovery and job creation," Bush said. "If tax relief is good enough for Americans three...
...Vacco claimed that "dead people" and illegal immigrants had voted for Spitzer, a charge immortalized in the tabloid headline ALIENS STOLE MY ELECTION.) The new attorney general began looking for cases that mattered. Using an obscure section of the federal Clean Air Act, he took on polluters in the Midwest in 1999, arguing that winds bring their acid rain to New York. Two power companies agreed to pay a total of $2.6 billion to clean up 18 power plants, though the Bush Administration's efforts to gut the act have stalled the cases. Spitzer challenged gun manufacturers who supply retailers...
...Americans watching this odd display, the message was clear: This mid-level lawyer at a field office in the Midwest had higher expectations for the FBI than its top leaders. The bureau could be great, was her message, if only it put the goal of protecting Americans above the goal of protecting itself, if only agents were not rewarded for sitting still...
...speak at a campaign rally, bristles when forced to make small talk with anyone not on his mental list of people worth his time. Told earlier this year that his schedule included 30 minutes of schmoozing with small-bore donors after a fund-raising speech in the Midwest, Cheney curled his lip and, without even looking at the aide who delivered the news, said, "Make it five." In fact, he was gone three minutes after finishing his speech. "He likes fewer, longer conversations," explains Matalin. "He's not a Georgetown, look-over-your-shoulder, cocktail-party kind...