Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lace-up lawyer shoes. (Occasionally some modest stripes on his white shirts will betray a whiff of bohemian raffishness.) His accent in no way distinguishes his speech from that heard in the hallways or elevators; he flattens his vowels and comes down hard on his rs, in the approved Midwestern manner, and tends to drop the final g from words like coming...
...Clara Stern, wife of the distinguished trial lawyer Alejandro Stern, back her Seville into the garage, close the door and start the engine? Who was supposed to cash the $850,000 check she left with her banker before she took her life? How did this reticent Midwestern matron contract genital herpes? And what is the connection between her death and the Government's investigation of Maison Dixon, a commodity-futures firm owned by her brother-in-law Dixon Hartnell...
Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an increasing number of growers are "farming ugly" -- gunning their tractors over fields ajumble with great clods of dirt and raggedy stalks left over from last year's harvest...
...burden of these reductions would fall most heavily on the Appalachian regions that produce high-sulfur coal and the 107 Midwestern power plants that burn it. "This bill will absolutely devastate my state, leaving nothing but unemployment in its path," complained Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois. The Senate version tries to help by offering incentives to plants that buy cleanup technology and reduce pollution even more than required (they would get credits that they could sell to other plants). But the Senate narrowly rejected an amendment by former majority leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia that would have compensated...
...smiling, about O'Connor. Neither does the liberal Kroc. What binds them, according to O'Connor, is camaraderie and a shared boosterism in regard to San Diego. Yet why do they do it? Part of the answer lies in old-fashioned values that Kroc and Copley attribute to their Midwestern upbringing, and O'Connor to a strict Catholic girlhood that taught "you have to give something back...