Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about his wrists. It's a look that suggests sartorial detente between Garth Brooks and Austin Powers. Which, when you think about it--if, like me, it's your job to think about it--is pretty much where Pitt would fall on the spectrum of masculine iconography, his fidgety Midwestern guyness touched with just a hint of dandified self-regard. This isn't always the case with stars, but the charisma that works for him on screen is readily apparent in person too. It's that smile, the one that detonates in quick stages across his face, starting with just...
...easy to guess at Gingrich's incentive for cutting down. His main obligation in August was to show up with other potential presidential candidates at the meeting of Midwestern Republicans in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis event had no swimsuit competition, although given the way presidential politics seems to be going, I wouldn't completely rule it out in the future...
Terrorists wreaked havoc on the World Trade Center in 1993. Could larger targets--the Wall Street financial network, Midwestern water supplies, California power grids--prove as susceptible? For almost a year, a presidential COMMISSION ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION has been quietly collecting intelligence reports and interviewing business executives and local officials to determine how vulnerable banks, telecommunications systems, utilities and transportation networks are to attacks from terrorists or cyberbandits...
WASHINGTON: Call it the revenge of the weeds. An environmental report released yesterday shows Americans living in rural areas -- particularly the Midwestern corn belt -- are getting a cocktail of farm chemicals when they drink tap water. The chemicals found in the study could drastically increase cancer risks...
Johnson describes a recent trip to a midwestern company, the CEO of which is a Harvard alum. He credits that relationship in part with the success of the meeting...