Word: midwest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore's pick may be that it caught George W. Bush so completely off guard. The day before the choice was made public, Bush and his vice-presidential nominee, Dick Cheney, were talking about Gore's options while flying back to Texas after a whistle-stop tour of the Midwest. Bush asked Cheney what he thought of Lieberman, and Cheney replied with Bushspeak's highest praise: "He's a good man." Bush agreed--but neither he, Cheney nor any of their top advisers thought Gore would have the guts to pick him. "It's his best choice...
...newspapers and throughout homes all over the country, there is a feeling that order and reason have been restored to the Midwest. No matter who wins in this fall's general elections, the candidates promise that evolution will be reinstated in its full form to Kansas classrooms. It was a triumph for the mainstream...
...worrisome are ecological concerns. In 1999 Cornell University entomologist John Losey performed a provocative, "seat-of-the-pants" laboratory experiment. He dusted Bt corn pollen on plants populated by monarch-butterfly caterpillars. Many of the caterpillars died. Could what happened in Losey's laboratory happen in cornfields across the Midwest? Were these lovely butterflies, already under pressure owing to human encroachment on their Mexican wintering grounds, about to face a new threat from high-tech farmers in the north...
...Good liberals in the white Midwest are not going to have a conversation about promiscuity and sexual behavior in Africa," Rivers said...
...campaign for the proposition with a $4,000-a-head cocktail party at his home in a wealthy community outside San Francisco, along with rallies in San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento. Overseeing the effort are Joe Gaylord, longtime strategist for Newt Gingrich, and Pat Rosenstiel, a former Midwest political director for Steve Forbes. But few if any big names are expected to high-five with Draper at his campaign podiums. So far, such school-choice advocates as financier Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton, who have raised $100 million to send poor children to private schools...