Word: midwestern
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...What Churchill offers is a sea-and-land short cut for ships carrying goods along a north-south axis between Europe and the Americas. Cargo from, say, Murmansk, Russia, can be unloaded at the port and carried by rail to Canada, midwestern U.S. states or even Mexico. The port is already ice-free five months of the year, and with some judicious ice- breaking that season could be extended by a full 30 days on either end. Broe, who happens to own North America's largest privately held railway, profits from both legs of the journey. "No one has ever...
...least $40 million for her race this fall and twice that much, if not more, in the crucial 18 months that follow. Clinton and her team have spent the past year executing a mostly careful, mostly moderate and quietly deliberate game plan. "They are not," said a Midwestern ally who recently jumped on board, "taking anything for granted...
...cars on recycled vegetable oil. Last year the country singer launched a fuel called BioWillie, a blend of diesel and vegetable oil that he says is more efficient and burns cleaner than conventional diesel. Any diesel engine can run on BioWillie, which is available at gas stations in four Midwestern states. "It's better for the farmer to grow fuel than for us to go around starting wars to get it," says Nelson, who concedes that cars powered by his diesel blend emit fumes that can smell like French fries. Vehicles that run on grease have crossed the Atlantic...
...color scheme is so dreadfully dreary that you begin to fervently believe that there simply must be sinister doings afoot—hardly the ideal setting for frivolity and wit. Johansson and Hunt give tepid performances, to say the very least. Johansson, playing the stereotypically naïve Midwestern girl, is insufferably proud of herself. Her American accent jars horrendously with the smooth delivery of the British actors, and she spends so much of the film looking saintly that you wonder if she’s capable of original thought. Ordinarily an impressive actress, here Johansson seems more preoccupied with...
Hosting an event is not just good business; it’s much, much more. It can mean everything to a winter haven in northern Italy or a struggling Midwestern city trying to reinvent itself...