Word: midwestern
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...Midwestern power-plant emissions that Northeastern commentators constantly depict as a horror? Such emissions are a problem--but a declining problem. Levels of sulfur dioxide (acid rain) from Midwestern power plants have dropped 40% in the past two decades, even as electricity production keeps rising; emissions of nitrogen oxide from Midwestern plants are also declining. At the worst, Bush's recent decision to encourage the modernization of Midwestern power plants will only slow the future rate of decline...
...smooth surface--a parent passing along news of his kids. He didn't divulge that our relationship was strained because I was living with my boyfriend, or that Ron's career choice had caused some bewilderment (it wasn't prejudice on my father's part, just that Midwestern boy showing through--guys in his town never wore tights). Like the accomplished swimmer he was, he knew that the calm surface of the water is easy on the eyes and soothing to the soul. It's the turbulence beneath that's risky. He gave his friends the soothing view...
...York City outbreak was preceded by a three-month drought, followed by a three-week heat wave in July. Major outbreaks over the past two summers—including those in 2002 in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio and in 2003 in Colorado and Nebraska—were all preceded by summer droughts and mild winters...
...next customer to the drop in center is unmistakably American, and by the accent probably Midwestern. His face is scrubbed to pinkness, his white hair combed over meticulously, and he laughs like an attack: nasal and whiny. Majoor sighs—the website is stubborn—and gets off the phone to take his question...
...genre no more want it to avoid cliches than we want McDonald's to serve escargots. We just want it to let us live vicariously the lives of wealthy people while also looking down on them. A decade ago, Beverly Hills, 90210 flattered heartland viewers by testing the Midwestern values of the transplanted Walsh family in BMW-and-bulimia Babylon. The O.C.'s outsider premise is both older and more radical: when a poor kid in trouble moves to a pampered enclave, who will corrupt whom...