Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permission to build a 2,600-mile pipeline from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and Canada's Mackenzie River Delta, across the barren Mackenzie Valley and into the U.S. (see map). The pipeline could eventually provide some 2.25 billion cu. ft. of gas a day for customers in Midwestern and Pacific Coast states-about 3.6% of present U.S. consumption-and an equal volume for Canadians. Bearing a projected price tag of $5.7 billion, the pipeline would likely be the largest privately financed construction project ever undertaken. Consortium officials say that the gas line could be completed...
...their candidate dissociated himself from Richard Nixon. On the same day, the party lost a psychologically important congressional race in staunchly Republican Cincinnati. Warns G.O.P. Congressman William F. Scherle of Iowa: "If this is a pattern, then there aren't many Republicans who can survive." Adds a prominent Midwestern Republican Governor: "There's light at the end of the tunnel-it's a freight train heading right...
...simple kind of barter deal is one arranged recently by a Midwestern container manufacturer. He had a batch of beer and soda cans ready to market, but no paint for them. He called a paint maker who had no drums in which to ship. The can maker also manufactured drums, so in effect he delivered drums in part payment for paint...
This was 1969 when the macrobiotic wave was still gaining momentum, especially in its midwestern stronghold of Ann Arbor. The stories that had been appearing frequently in the newspapers, of people starving on the diet, of dying from salt poisoning and malnutrition, would hardly signal caution to Kimberly, who had a habit of extremism. And soon enough, macrobiotics had become her new gospel. Following Regime No. 7, no more than grain and tea, she cut out all drugs and stopped having sex. She stopped talking and living everything but the new found religion of macrobiotics. She would, of course, located...
...anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing its owner to concentrate on his poker game...