Word: midwest
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...Heating oil now costs 67% more than it did a year ago; depleted inventories and high worldwide demand, along with forecasts of a colder than average winter, are expected to boost prices even higher. Last week 111 members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, mostly from the Northeast and the Midwest--sent a letter to Clinton asking him to deploy the SPR. To dramatize the problem Friday, Gore held an event in Pittsburgh that featured a number of people battered by rising oil prices, including an elderly woman named Annie Young who said she didn't know how she was going...
...think it's necessarily going to happen," said Nader volunteer Steven H. Milder '04, citing Nader's extremely low poll numbers in the South and Midwest...
What drew someone from such a stable background to the study of marital distress? At the end of the 1960s, Wallerstein, whose Ph.D. is in clinical psychology, moved from Topeka, Kans., in the ho-hum heartland, to swinging California. "Divorce was almost unheard of in the Midwest," she recalls. Not so on the Gold Coast, the state had just passed its pioneering no-fault divorce law. Wallerstein took a job consulting at a large community mental-health center in Marin County just as the social dam began to crack. "We started to get complaints," she says, "from nursery school teachers...
...Perrier, whose labels include Deer Park, Poland Spring and Calistoga, has a fever to make Wisconsin the Midwest source for its Ice Mountain brand. They're bulling ahead with the blessing of Governor Tommy Thompson and waiting on a state pumping permit that could come any day now. This despite crushing votes against Perrier (by ratios of 4-1 and 3-1) in two referendums and last week's 263-92 recall of New Haven town manager Ed Coon, 66. Coon, speaking in his kitchen, moments before his fate was decided, said he thought it was time to grow...
...Gore holds a two-to-one lead in California and New York, two of the big four electoral prizes. Texas is Bush country. But if Bush does not win Florida, with its 25 electoral votes, he will have to make a clean sweep of the battleground states in the Midwest to win. And if he's not winning over the moderate voters of Florida, he may not grab the moderate voters of Missouri or Pennsylvania...