Word: midwestern
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...deal of time talking to businessmen. (Picking up some consulting fees!) I have met with the boards of the top management of the half a dozen largest banks around the country, with the equivalent groups in the dozen or so largest mutual funds, with an island (Jamaica!) full of Midwestern meatpackers, cereal manufacturers and such, and quite a number of heavy industry types, the latter at a conference called by the Columbia School of Business...
...thing, building such a pipeline and its service road would open up to development the country's vast potential reserves of Arctic oil and proven reserves of natural gas. For another, it would send Canadian as well as Alaskan oil directly to the U.S.'s thirsty Midwestern markets. Equally important, it would avoid some of the unique problems besetting the proposed Alaska pipeline...
...eligible are those who received bachelor degrees this year or advanced degrees within the past three years. The five "young" trustees on the screening committee include last year's president of the M.I.T. graduate student council, a director of the World Bank, the head mistress of a Midwestern girls' school, a businessman and an attorney. Their ages range from...
Commenting on his Bulletin quote-which came out of an interview with six Harvard military veterans-Sachs said, "The key word there is 'argue.' I'd discuss the war with anybody. But I'll be damned if I'm going to argue about the morality of killing with some Midwestern housewife...
...school college-placement officials, confirmed yesterday that they knew of no attempt by Harvard to screen out radicals. A dean at an Eastern prep school said, "Harvard is one of the most civilized of all the colleges we deal with in this respect." And a spokesman for a small Midwestern school said, "We have had less trouble about politics from Harvard than from any of the others...