Word: midwestern
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...universal coverage" but had instead said "guaranteed coverage for every American." The wink was not lost on liberals -- who already felt abused by the White House's ardent courtship of moderates -- Governors and the Business Roundtable. "They're even waffling on universal coverage," said the top aide to a Midwestern Senator. "The message is that if you fight hard for progressive principles, the White House...
...scholars coming for lunch as in wrestling with the wording of minor speeches. He was reluctant to let even minor White House proclamations go out without review. He recently barked at an aide who tried to release a statement on ethanol, saying he had to run it by two Midwestern Senators -- personally. "It's almost a throwback to the old ( days when Presidents did everything themselves," said an official. Added another: "He tries to keep all these balls in the air. He could get away with it in Little Rock. He was smart enough to pull it off in that...
...frigid mass of arctic air gripped the nation's Midwestern and Eastern states, where a number of cities recorded their coldest days ever. The cold is blamed for the death of at least 130 people...
...student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, decided to focus on a representative case and find out. For a magazine-writing class, Lewers tracked down Tony and Missy Evers, whose photograph appeared on our cover of July 26, 1993. The Everses, victims of the summer's catastrophic Midwestern floods, were shown hugging each other in a rowboat on the submerged Main Street of Cedar City, Missouri...
Much of the new support for the assault-gun ban came from Senators representing Midwestern and Western states that are strongholds of the once invulnerable National Rifle Association. Colorado Democrat Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Montana Democrat Max Baucus, longtime NRA supporters, both voted...