Word: midwest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Census count, is still under way, but so far the redrawn lines appear to favor most House incumbents. No more than two dozen of the 435 House races may really be up for grabs, and many of them are in Republican-friendly areas in the South and Midwest. DeLay predicts the G.O.P. will defy history and actually increase its majority in November...
...another monk, Daniel Simons. Sporting a beard and wearing a green T-shirt and khakis, Simons is 37 but looks like a 25-year-old grad student. He comes from northern Wisconsin and attended Wheaton College, alma mater of Billy Graham. Most of the monks here hail from the Midwest, but “it’s just a coincidence,” Almquist says...
...destructive Hurricane Georges ("Nature stepped in to lend a helping hand") and appeared to welcome OPEC's "efforts to rein in output" as helpful to their business, which of course is the same as OPEC's, selling oil. And in 1999, BP Amoco (now BP) actually had a "Midwest, Mid-Continent Strategy" to avoid putting more oil on the market than their profitability could take...
...sheer number of simplifications involved in the political message tends to undermine its effect; the novel should remain the story of Falin and Kit. There is something truly poignant in the image of two powerless people huddled in a house in the Midwest while the warring national powers fight overhead...
...probably going to get worse as the weather gets warmer. Analysts at the U.S. Climate Prediction Center put most of the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest in the "Slow Improvement/Problems Persist" category, signaling what could be a tough, dry summer for swimming pools, dust-caked cars and thirsty lawns. "We're still hoping for some good rains in April," says Bryan Swistock, a water resources and conservation specialist at Penn State's school of Forestry Resources. "But we seem to be running out of time...