Word: midwestern
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...more compelling, but because they have catch phrases to back them up. The scientific community, on the other hand, struggles to be comprehensible putting themselves at risk of following the dodo into extinction.The most obvious comparison for Olson’s work is to that of another laid-back Midwestern documentarian, Michael Moore. Olson says he welcomes the overlap—to a certain extent.“I have admiration for [Moore], but there’s no persuasion,” Olson said. “I don’t want to beat people over the head...
...Certainly that seemed to be the thrust of Iowan questions at Obama's Wednesday event: cancer research, mental health care, health insurance, nutrition in the schools. Ordinary Iowans will continue to make the most of their caucus process for as long as it lasts. And these dutiful Midwestern citizens, my friends and family among them, will continue to view it all as a very serious responsibility. Call me naive or sentimental, but I find this inspiring...
...late January, the mysterious figure sent a letter bomb to two Midwestern financial services companies. The message inside both packages, which were discovered by mail clerks, read "Bang! You're dead." The boxes arrived at American Century Investments in Kansas City and Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Co., a Chicago financial services company. Both had all the makings of a pipe bomb, a PVC pipe filled with buckshot and smokeless powder, plus protruding wires. But the sender had not included a power source, which indicated to investigators that the Bishop, meant to terrify, not kill - at least not yet. Still, while...
...Indiana, in short, has always played a Midwestern version of New Jersey to Chicago's New York (with Gary thrown in as Newark). Even when Indianapolis acquired the Colts in 1984, it was done in an underhanded way, the team stealing out of Baltimore in the middle of the night in trailer trucks, something the Hoosier capital has never really been able to live down...
...Ford plunged in. He challenged the local incumbent Representative, Bertel Jonkman, in the G.O.P. primary and won, and then went on to win the general election, thanks in part to the support of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Ford's experiences in the war had turned him away from Midwestern Republican isolationism, which Vandenberg opposed as well. Three weeks before after the election, Ford, in a quiet ceremony, married Betty Warren, an attractive divorc?e...