Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Midwestern Work Ethic...
With its small downtown, two main streets and local high school, Yankton is a typical Midwestern village. By sunrise, most of the residents are either at work on the farm or heading towards the factory...
Brokaw sheds his Midwestern loyalties during basketball season to root for the New York Knicks. He was distraught by their elimination by the Chicago Bulls in this year's playoffs, he says...
...learned in a party split on issues and a country going to extremes. In the past 27 years you've straddled, which may have been the only way for a Republican Senate leader to survive. You've had your paleoconservative moments--"Democrat wars!"--and an old-style, Midwestern aversion to deficits. You've also pushed through tax increases, and if you think you were wrong about some of your votes and views from 10 and 20 years ago, then explain where you were and where you are. If you think you were right then, say that too, and amplify. People...
...charges have roiled the until now aptly named Midwestern town of Normal, where the plant has helped almost double the tax rolls and provided the kind of working-class prosperity that is fast fading from the American scene. Opened in 1987 as a joint venture of M.M.M.A. and the Chrysler Corp. (which sold its share to Mitsubishi in 1991), the $650 million assembly plant employs some 4,000 people, including 70 Japanese nationals--all of them managers--and almost 900 women. Assembly-line and maintenance workers make about $18 an hour and, with overtime and shift-preference pay, can earn...