Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mediocre grades in high school, a daughter born out of wedlock and 17 tickets for speeding and unsafe driving. It quoted an anonymous friend's assertion that the woman had "a little wild streak." For good measure, it detailed her mother's divorce and remarriage to a wealthy Midwestern industrialist...
...good running mate for Gore would be Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, whose Congressional Medal of Honor and loss of a leg in Vietnam would preempt any perceptions of softness on national defense. His "down-home" Midwestern image will retain the Democrats' traditional strength in Minnesota and Michigan...
...expected to travel domestically or abroad in the next six months -- up from only half who had planned to do so when polled during the war. "Once the war ended, the floodgates opened," says Linda Scott, marketing director for American Express Travel in Chicago. The hottest tickets for her Midwestern customers: Caribbean cruises and package vacations to Mexico and Hawaii...
...sometimes hard to match Vukonich the player to Vukonich the person. Vuke retains his Midwestern aura of naivete and simplicity, despite four years in big-time college hockey...
...companies are receiving vigorous help from Washington. For months the Bush Administration has been urging Kuwait to give Americans a leading role in rebuilding the country. Says an insider whose Midwestern firm is part of the reconstruction's first phase: "Bush wanted to be sure that every initiative was made to secure a substantial share of business...