Word: midwesterner
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...impartial analysis but by politicians. Alaskan officials and some 44 labor unions are backing the El Paso plan which, as an All-American project they believe will provide more Alaskan and U.S. tax revenues and create more U.S. jobs. Congressmen from Eastern and Midwestern states favor the Arctic Gas proposal because it promises to guarantee their voters supplies of slightly cheaper gas. In the end, the choice will be made by the White House, which is likely to find the great gas decision a touchy one to make in a tense election year...
...story about. What did they mean by ordinary? Well, there are neighborhoods resembling it in a lot of people's home towns. Broadway in New York is flanked by a similar utilitarian snarl of dingy department stores and stark donut or submarine joints. From my own experience in Midwestern cities of about 200,000 inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody named Arthur Savage, Tax Acct. Not even the neon camel propped above...
Woiwode's captures the flavor of Midwestern life and dialogue. The language is simple, often slow and deliberate, reflecting the pace of the farmer's life...
...Republicans found Ford ahead of Reagan, 58% to 36%. But that poll was taken just before Ford's Cabinet shakeup, and the situation could easily change. Indeed, an NBC telephone poll of 245 Republicans just after the shake-up gave Reagan 44%, Ford 43%. Says a top Midwestern Republican who backs Ford: "Reagan's attracting the same crowd that backed Barry Goldwater. The minute he announces, they're going to pop out of the woodwork. They run for delegate slots, are very vocal and will churn everything...
Lincoln delivered news about mutual friends--graduates, people with jobs, people at medical school. McInally was hungry for details, maybe because he now lives in a midwestern boondock through which few Harvard paths cross. Cincinnati is not New York or Washington, and if not for his roommate John Keogh, who works in Cincinnati for Procter and Gamble and once played second-string tackle, McInally would almost be starved for familiar faces...