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...Midwestern Work Ethic...
...learned in a party split on issues and a country going to extremes. In the past 27 years you've straddled, which may have been the only way for a Republican Senate leader to survive. You've had your paleoconservative moments--"Democrat wars!"--and an old-style, Midwestern aversion to deficits. You've also pushed through tax increases, and if you think you were wrong about some of your votes and views from 10 and 20 years ago, then explain where you were and where you are. If you think you were right then, say that too, and amplify. People...
...charges have roiled the until now aptly named Midwestern town of Normal, where the plant has helped almost double the tax rolls and provided the kind of working-class prosperity that is fast fading from the American scene. Opened in 1987 as a joint venture of M.M.M.A. and the Chrysler Corp. (which sold its share to Mitsubishi in 1991), the $650 million assembly plant employs some 4,000 people, including 70 Japanese nationals--all of them managers--and almost 900 women. Assembly-line and maintenance workers make about $18 an hour and, with overtime and shift-preference pay, can earn...
...growers, both Southern cane farmers and Midwestern beet growers, outfoxed not only congressional reformers but also a high-powered coalition of sugar and sweetener users such as Coca-Cola and Hershey Foods. These opponents were joined by environmental groups, particularly those in Florida, where phosphorus-laden runoff from sugarcane fields has been turning stretches of the Everglades into cattail-clogged waters...
...years the Hensel twins have lived a quiet existence in a tiny Midwestern town where everyone knows them. (The family does not want the town to be identified.) They go shopping with their parents and younger brother and sister, attend school and even play in Little League T-ball games. But until recently when their parents opened their doors and hearts to a Life magazine reporter and photographer, the twins have been shielded from media attention. Their touching story, which appears on the cover of Life's April issue, has made them instant celebrities...