Word: midwesterner
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...weather caught the U.S. squarely in the middle. By May, 12.6 million acres in seven Midwestern and Southern states were inundated; 4,000,000 acres are still flooded. Some planned cotton crops were never planted. Anticipated corn yields in Illinois are down 10% from last year, and winter-wheat losses are high. Total flood damage is estimated at $409 million...
Restraint is beyond him. The volume of his voice is a full roar; the volume of his drinking-on which he has believed "my science and art depended" -has borne him repeatedly to the edge of doom. As a last hope, he finds himself in Ward W of a midwestern hospital's treatment center, vowing to "get out of the whisky business altogether...
Bruising Battle. His firm, Deffet Companies, concentrates on building and sometimes operating big housing and apartment complexes as well as office buildings. It has building projects under way in 13 cities and in six Midwestern and Southern states. On at least one of these, the 124-unit Ivy Wood development in Columbus, Deffet will have to take a loss. Any profit from Ivy Wood, a federally subsidized, low-and moderate-income project, has long since been poured into legal fees and other costs of fighting a bruising four-year battle with residents of the adjacent white, middle-class village...
Born in Akron, Dean was raised with his sister Anne in several Midwestern cities, as their father rose through the executive ranks of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Later the elder Dean settled in Greenville, Pa., where he became vice president of a company that manufactures playground equipment. At Staunton, young John studied self-hypnotism to improve his concentration and roomed with Barry Goldwater Jr., who now is his neighbor in Alexandria, Va. Dean graduated with a low B average and got by at Colgate with gentlemanly C's before transferring to Ohio's College of Wooster...
...members have been forced to shut down their pumps permanently. At the same time, major oil companies are cutting back their retail operations in areas where they are weak. In recent weeks, Exxon began phasing out at least 150-and possibly as many as 400-of its Midwestern stations. Atlantic Richfield plans to fold some 2,400 of its outlets in the Upper Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions...