Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midwestern states are key battlegrounds for Senate races this year. In Illinois, a member of the old Republican vanguard is fighting for his political life. In Iowa, a New Rightist is trying to overcome indiscretions and missteps in his quest for a second term. Both men are facing tough, aggressive liberal challengers...
Prevailing by some ten games in the National League's West Division, the Padres were denied the sensation of a pennant race. This helps explain the town's relative calm so far, though it is a relatively calm town, "more Midwestern in principle than Los Angeles," according to Garvey. Three players, including Pitching Ace Eric Show, have publicly embraced the John Birch Society without encountering much local disapproval. Also it was a summer of mean news in San Diego: 21 people massacred at the San Ysidro McDonald's, two police officers killed in a quiet park...
Hugh Sidey's warning to "Pay Heed to the Prairie" [NATION, Sept. 10] struck a chord in my Midwestern heart. His admonition should remind us that agriculture is of primary importance to this nation and all other types of commerce and production are secondary. The greatest deterrent to a nuclear holocaust is our sharing with the Soviets the grain that comes from this nation's breadbasket...
...Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are likely to be influenced by the decision. Indeed, Bethlehem Steel and the Steelworkers Union had timed their petition to the Trade Commission so that Reagan would be forced to make a decision in the middle of the campaign. In an appeal to Midwestern Rust Bowl voters the day before Reagan's announcement, Walter Mondale had called for the very import quotas the President rejected...
This year's crop, of new students includes a former pro basketball player and a former dean from Princeton University (see accompanying story), an Alaskan fisherman and several Midwestern farmers, and ranges in age from 18 to 41. All have survived a tortuous--and some would say torturous--weeding out process that began a year...