Word: midwest
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Teenagers have always gone to extremes to be cool, but until now they haven't actually risked frostbite. That changed this winter as teens throughout the frigid Northeast and blustery Midwest began sporting flip-flops and open-toed sandals on even the snowiest of days. The trend has gone international too: Britain's Prince William was spotted wearing flip-flops on a recent cold winter...
American's bold proposal could bring airline deregulation to its logical--if unforeseen--conclusion. More than 50 new carriers have taken wing since deregulation's dawn in 1978, but only a few, like Midwest Express, have survived. And at least one, America West, is the subject of takeover talk. The rest have either been scrapped, like older carriers Braniff and Eastern, or swallowed...
...Democratic Party and seemed receptive to g.o.p. stroking, but Chavez is a bitter pill for even him to swallow. And thanks to Norton, a longtime advocate for oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, the strategist says, "we are also now undone with suburban women in the Midwest and California who care about the environment." Other Bush allies complain that by picking Ashcroft, a candidate to lead the Justice Department who offends the African-American community's sense of justice, Bush handed the other side a sure weapon to increase black turnout...
...Princeton returns to conference play after four games in the Midwest and one against UHN, it tries to avoid being shutout in back-to-back games for the first time since the '76-77 season...
...What happened? Bad weather in the Midwest and Southeast kept shoppers home; rising fuel prices kept their budgets tight. There was that whole presidential election thing. And as George W. Bush has been so studiously pointing out, we're in the middle of an economic slowdown. And shoppers, who account for two-thirds of the U.S. economy, know...