Word: midwestern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard president said problems similar to those at Yale afflict Stanford and Columbia Universities, and said public institutions in New York, California and Illinois are "in very, very considerable trouble." He said Midwestern liberal arts colleges are also being hurt by the dearth of resources...
Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard Nixon. But when Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
...former Eliot master rejects accusations that he was the last guardian of Old Harvard, pointing to his Midwestern, public school background...
...teenage girl in a photograph in the middle of Townships, a new compilation of essays by midwestern authors, smiles. She sits with legs crossed in front of a restaurant window with the words "Fresh Catfish or T-bone--2 for $8" written on it in soap...
...utilities evaluate the technology. "We look at it as a real competitive option," says Carl Weinberg, director of research for San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric. Outside California, however, wind power still carries the burden of past failures. Even though a government survey found that 10 Midwestern states could more than meet all their electrical power needs from wind, no major wind projects are planned in the region...