Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenage girl in a photograph in the middle of Townships, a new compilation of essays by midwestern authors, smiles. She sits with legs crossed in front of a restaurant window with the words "Fresh Catfish or T-bone--2 for $8" written on it in soap...
...utilities evaluate the technology. "We look at it as a real competitive option," says Carl Weinberg, director of research for San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric. Outside California, however, wind power still carries the burden of past failures. Even though a government survey found that 10 Midwestern states could more than meet all their electrical power needs from wind, no major wind projects are planned in the region...
...regatta, one of the premiere midwestern races, drew intercollegiate sailing teams from across the country...
...tendency is to use Keillor's essays and stories as a sacred text of a new Midwestern religion. But Garrison Keillor writes about a world that everyone knows. WLT: A Radio Romance traces, via a fictional narrative, the birth of radio, its peak of popularity and its decline...
Francis, who changes his name to Frank White, starts slowly as a character, but his prominence in the narrative develops with his career at WLT. Despite the similarities, any thought that this Midwestern boy might have a life that parallels the author's are dashed when Frank takes a stab at television and hits...